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* Inmate says he confessed to end police torture

An inmate who wants a new murder trial claims he was tortured so badly by Chicago police officers in the 1990s that he would have signed anything, including his murder confession.

* High court to hear appeal of ex-Sun-Times owner

* Shimkus: Climate change bill an attack on ‘rural poor’

* Override vote on Stroger’s tax rollback veto may come today

* Cook County Commissioners to Attempt Veto Override

* Last Chance At County Tax Rollback Appears Dead

* Chicago Heights recycling plant forges ahead

* Arbitrator sides with steel plant

* A new game of survival for car dealers

* U of I will consider scaling back Global Campus

* Chicago aldermen argue city got ‘gypped’ in privatization of parking meters

* City must do more on housing reform

* Chicago Not Alone in Budget Dumpster

* University of Chicago to shutter women’s clinic

* University of Chicago to close women’s health clinic

* Ricketts lines up financing for Cubs deal

posted by Mike Murray
Tuesday, May 19, 09 @ 9:30 am

Comments

Isn’t “gypped” an offensive term?

If there were only some governing body that could have held a vote and prevented this move. Perhaps they are angry that the Aldermen did not think of this first.

Comment by Wumpus Tuesday, May 19, 09 @ 9:40 am
Wumpus - That is the newest trend in Illinois politics. You vote on a bill that is rushed through, and later express regret.

Confer: Cook County sales tax increase vote.

Of course, that regret never can result in reversing the original decision if revenue is involved (for silly things like fois gras, it can).

Of course, it is hard to tell if the pol expressing regret *now* is just telling us what we want to hear.

The media seems to like this new trend, so I’m ok with it.

Comment by Leroy Tuesday, May 19, 09 @ 9:48 am
There is something terribly wrong when a congressman sitting in Congress for 34 years from California, (which is bankrupt), and a congressman sitting in Congress for 32 years from Massachusetts, (soon to be bankrupt), think they have a solution for the entire US on anything!

Their bill will be an utter disaster in costs of implementation, not do a damn thing to address the supposed problem they believe they are addressing, stomp our economy and rocket energy costs into the stratosphere.

But then, if they haven’t figured out how to pull their own state’s governments out of the holes their political beliefs have created, or simply ignor them after watching their states crater over the past 35 years, then their stupidity shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, May 19, 09 @ 9:53 am
And “gypped” is an insult to anyone with a Gypsy heritage.

The term means to be taken by a Gypsy, and to lose money in the process.

We also shouldn’t say “indian giver”, or “in dutch” when describing a bad deal.

Comment by VanillaMan Tuesday, May 19, 09 @ 9:56 am
Is “sauerkraut” offensive to those of German descent, just so I know?

For those of you who think higher ed isn’t bloated, read the Global Campus piece. Joe “Vanna” White’s Field of Dreams is falling apart $20 million later.

“Build it, and they will log on.”

Pat, replace THAT Board, why dontcha?

Comment by Arthur Andersen Tuesday, May 19, 09 @ 10:32 am
It might not be so bad if the City of Chicago decided that their prototype public asset privitization contracts were not negotiated by Buzz Lightyear and didn’t follow the motto, “to infinity and beyond”. 75 years of being stuck with a bad deal is preposterous and it is a little late for Alderman who voted for the deal to complain.

Comment by Phineas J. Whoopee Tuesday, May 19, 09 @ 3:54 pm
Map of transportation infrastructure stimulus projects by county. (Mouse over each county for dollar amounts; can also zoom in on states).

Comment by Cheswick Tuesday, May 19, 09 @ 4:22 pm