Tell me, please, why did Chi Trib, which ran the ed-page graphic counting the days since the Stroger penny tax increase and until the Feb. 2 primary, endorse Preckwinkle the uncertain tax-cutter over the certain, enthusiastic, top-agenda tax-cutter O’Brien? Has Trib been fooling us all this time? O’Brien, polling behind Madame P. the alderwoman, who [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Fair is fair for all that
Discussing “No Child” etc., Richard Hoste: What are fair standards? I don’t know. But the hard truth is that there is a significant part of the population unable to learn any skills that will help them do anything beyond manual labor. Hard indeed, but that doesn’t change it.
Anti-abortionism at Ascension
My guess is 50 showed at Ascension’s pro-life talk tonight, by Ill. Right to Life exec director Bill Beckman. He’s a true wonk and delivered a lot of solid stuff, but I bailed out after an hour-fifteen or so: Ask him the time and he tells you how to make a watch, a la Ronald [...]
All or nothing
“It is very important that progressives help defeat Coakley,” says Gregory Martin at Firedog Lake. “Please read my explanation.” It’s about enabling the betrayers of the leftist dream, helping the “Democratic Corporate Suck Up wing of the party” grow in power. To do so will, in fact, ensure that there will be NO progressive agenda. It [...]
Clinton makes a point in Massachusetts
Bill Clinton campaigning for the endangered Dem candidate, commenting on Tea Party members from Rhode Island and New York campaigning for Scott Brown: “I thought Massachusetts knew more about American history than anybody else, and understood the Boston Tea Party was a revolt against abuse of power, not against government itself.” Good point, if you [...]
Ditka, Bears, banks, “reform”
Ditka and the Bears: Changing coaches is a start, but we have little to hope for until there’s a change of owners, dropping those who fired D. in 1993. “I was fired out of jealousy, plain and simple,” Ditka said for the Beyond the Glory special. “I had become the Bears. The greatest moment of [...]
Wheeling Jesuit refund
Here’s a strange one: I received a check for $75 from Wheeling Jesuit, a university I’ve never attended. All it says is ‘refund from fundraiser’. I e-mailed them but have not heard back yet. What would you do? First, I’d blog about it. Then I’d make a call, say to Advancement Office 304-243-8141 or 1-800-888-2586 [...]
The “Kennedy seat” looking Brown
In the Mass. race, Brown v. Coakley, keep your eye on the big guy: “If the White House thinks she can win, Obama will be there,” the Democrat says. “If they don’t think she can win, he won’t be there.” Word is, they don’t think so and he won’t be there. ============= Later: Word is [...]
Wheeling Jesuit, NASA, whistleblower suit
More trouble in Wheeling Jesuit city: A woman who says she lost her job at Wheeling Jesuit University after questioning the way the school billed administrative expenses for government grants has filed a whistleblower lawsuit in Ohio County Circuit Court. The lawsuit filed by Catherine Smith, at one time the manager of finance for Wheeling [...]
What doth it non-profit a man?
Chi Trib reports big bucks paid to a non-profit affordable-housing exec — $685,000 in 2008, “at least three times higher” than comparables and judged “clearly absurd” by a specialist. She and two fellow board members decide how much she gets, one of whom is a long-time Oak Parker and onetime exec director of the National [...]
