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* Appeal like Ryan’s nixed in other case

* Proposal to limit municipal primaries faces opposition

* Sun-Times Editorial: CeaseFire needs outside help to continue vital work

* Editorial: CeaseFire money must be restored in state budget

* If you’re slated, you’re in

* Giuliani steps up effort in Illinois

* Mary Schmich: Story behind suicide can’t be pried open

* Take hospital oversight from Stroger: panel

* Stroger, allies pound Claypool aide

It could have been a masterful political coup.

Cook County Board President Todd Stroger recently tried to hire the top aide to one of his top agitators.

But ever since Doug Kucia, chief of staff to Commissioner Forrest Claypool, turned down what he said was a $115,000 offer to work for Stroger, Stroger and board allies have been publicly pounding the $90,000 Claypool pays him.

* I-70 bridge over Mississippi River talks revived

* AG Madigan sues mortgage rescue company for fraud

* Illiniois crime drops again, but murders, robberies climb

* Illinois sex offenders at large?

* Did Poshard prod friend to sway vote on resignation?

* City incentives help firms hire hard-to-employ

* Sun-Times Editorial: Weeding out bad teachers, contract contains good things for students

* Aurora’s Planned Parenthood showdown continues; more here and here

* Southern Illinois mayors prove age doesn’t mean a thing

posted by Paul Richardson
Monday, Sep 17, 07 @ 8:50 am

Comments

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Comment by Ghost Monday, Sep 17, 07 @ 8:55 am
Violent crime in Illinois is rising. Time for the anti-gunners to atage another assault against law-abiding gun owners.

Comment by Pro-Gunner Monday, Sep 17, 07 @ 9:09 am
“Stage” not “atage.”

Comment by Pro-Gunner Monday, Sep 17, 07 @ 9:11 am
The Glenn Poshard story is almost laughable. Internet polls are not scientific at all. They survey only those people who visit the site, and people can often vote more than once. It’s laughable that someone wrote a tory about Mr. Poshard’s attempts at skewing the polls, and it’s laughable that Mr. Poshard felt he needed to make the attempt in the first place.

Comment by Fan of the Game Monday, Sep 17, 07 @ 9:25 am
Thanks for the Claypool/Kucia story Rich, but you left out the best quote:

“‘If anybody’s chief of staff makes that much, it should be mine,’ said [Commissioner Deborah] Sims, whose top aide makes just a few thousand dollars less than Claypool’s.”

Nothing like a battle over principles. LOL

Comment by Yellow Dog Democrat Monday, Sep 17, 07 @ 10:46 am
Accordding to the Daily Herald news article on crime stats, the following is true if you do the math which I did:
Cook County has one crime committed for every 21.7 people.
DuPage County has one crime committed for every 44.9 people.
Kane County has one crime committed for every 46.3 people.
Lake County has one crime committed for every 44.8 people.
McHenry County has one crime committed for every 51.2 people.
Conclusion: Cook County has more than twice as much crime per capita than any one of the other four counties.

Comment by Patriot Monday, Sep 17, 07 @ 11:25 am
Crime is up all over the country. The Bush
administration did not continue the commitment
to fund local police that the Clinton administration
created. Gun laws are less restrictive under
the Bush administration. Backing off on crime
control on the domestic agenda has consequences.

Comment by amy Monday, Sep 17, 07 @ 12:07 pm
Crime is intimate. It feeds within neighbors and families. To blame the federal government for an increase in crime within Cook county is naive and remarkably nonsensical.

Comment by VanillaMan Monday, Sep 17, 07 @ 12:34 pm
You are absolutely right, that’s why it was so ridiculous that an e-mail chain was created utilizing the SIU-C e-mail system urging university employees to log on and support Poshard to skewer the poll. All on the taxpayers time and dime.

It’s not the alleged plagiarism that will kill Poshard it’s the incredibly poor judgment of pulling stunts like this that will.

Comment by To; Fan of the game Monday, Sep 17, 07 @ 6:34 pm
federal policies on crime
do have a local consequence. it’s not a neighbors
and family thing. it’s a gangs, guns and drugs
thing. meth is a national problem. gangs from
LA move to Nebraska. feds have to act. when
they don’t, we all suffer.

Comment by amy Monday, Sep 17, 07 @ 7:17 pm
“The general election is a non-issue, as no Republican has beaten a Democrat in a countywide race for judge in decades.”

That may be true, but the Republicans aren’t the only ones who can slate candidates anymore. The new question is, will Democrats also automatically be able to beat Green candidates that are slated.

Comment by Squideshi Tuesday, Sep 18, 07 @ 10:35 am