Morning Shorts
Friday, Oct 8, 2010 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Sept. Jobless Rate 9.6 Percent; Private Jobs Up 64,000
The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate held at 9.6 percent. The jobless rate has now topped 9.5 percent for 14 straight months, the longest stretch since the 1930s.
* Oglesby bailed out of jail by parents
Her parents drove from their suburban St. Louis home with a $25,000 check to bail her out of jail. White and Rita Oglesby withdrew the money from an equity line of credit on their O’Fallon, Mo., home, her father told a judge during a morning hearing in Cook County criminal court.
* City flagged repair scam in 2004
John J. Sullivan continued to rip off elderly homeowners in Chicago even after the city won an injunction barring him from doing home-repair work, federal prosecutors allege.
Sullivan, 48, is charged in U.S. District Court with carrying out a home-repair fraud scheme between 2002 and 2006, according to an indictment unsealed this week.
In an unrelated twist, police in Arizona said they found more than $550,000 in cash, more than 100 baggies of marijuana and four handguns in Sullivan’s home there. He bought the house last year, records show.
* Inspector general wants Chicago cab drivers on GPS system
* City should track all taxis by GPS, inspector general says
* Central Illinois Communities Could be Favorites for FutureGen Partnership
* SIU still waiting on $91 million
* Former Triton student recalled as ’supportive’
Dan Johnson garnered a little limelight after “The Hurt Locker” won the Best Picture Oscar earlier this year. A California TV station featured him in a news report about U.S. Air Force explosive disposal experts, similar to those portrayed in the film.
People would tell him “you must be crazy to do what you do,” Johnson said in the report on KSBY, an NBC affiliate in the central coast of California. “I never really thought about it. It seemed like a cool job.”
Seven months later, on Oct. 5, Johnson, who resided briefly in Schiller Park and attended Triton College in River Grove, was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. In June, he married a woman he’d met through church friends.
- wordslinger - Friday, Oct 8, 10 @ 10:37 am:
–Her parents drove from their suburban St. Louis home with a $25,000 check to bail her out of jail. White and Rita Oglesby withdrew the money from an equity line of credit on their O’Fallon, Mo., home, her father told a judge during a morning hearing in Cook County criminal court.–
If you’re in politics and want a friend, buy a dog.
- lakeview - Friday, Oct 8, 10 @ 11:08 am:
I can’t understand why Oglesby had so much trouble raising the money. She must have some crazy personal finances.
- wordslinger - Friday, Oct 8, 10 @ 11:12 am:
Don’t be surprised is she had spread some of her income around, if you know what I mean.
- Phineas J. Whoopee - Friday, Oct 8, 10 @ 11:25 am:
It’s guys like Dan Johnson who make me proud to be an American and feel sorry for our enemies because they are so outclassed. RIP hero.
- Segatari - Friday, Oct 8, 10 @ 1:02 pm:
>The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate held at 9.6 percent. The jobless rate has now topped 9.5 percent for 14 straight months, the longest stretch since the 1930s.
The private sector is not going to be able to absorb all of the government jobs due to stimulus and bailout money running out due to fears over what the Obama administration will unleash next. If the GOP wins the House the private sector should start adding jobs rapidly because they know any crazy new mandate the Dems try to push down their throats will be DOA.
- Hal (GT) - Friday, Oct 8, 10 @ 3:44 pm:
The thing to check out o those jobs numbers is the revision numbers for past months. Shows how bad their estimates are.
- Cincinnatus - Friday, Oct 8, 10 @ 4:50 pm:
Hal,
Nice try, their estimates are usually close, but the current revision show that the economy lost 366,000 more jobs between March 2009 and March 2010 than previously estimated. Accounting for this, private-sector employment has fallen by 7.97 million jobs since the recession began.
If anything, the revisions show that the economy is worse than Obama has touted. Summer of Recovery, indeed.