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Ugh, finally: 28 aldermen are filing a petition to U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow demanding the City release the names of the most-complained-about police officers. The Sun-Times's spot-on editorial is completely degraded by heinous illustration that accompanies it, from the same "artist" who also did yesterday's ricockulously bad Stroger drawing.
The Book Cellar is hosting "Chicago’s Wittiest Women Writers" tonight. We deeply resent not being invited to participate, but cannot deny the wit of Stacey Ballis, Wendy McClure, Claire Zulkey, Jen Lancaster and Elizabeth Crane. It starts at 7, 4736 N Lincoln.
John Brown and Edward Leak, a former cop, were convicted of first-degree murder this week. Leak paid Brown to kill one of his employees, on whom he had a $500,000 insurance policy.
Pat Quinn is laying the smack down on Blago and Emil Jones. That's something we can get behind...except he's doing it with this hideous website that makes noise and has typos. Quinn is calling out Jones for not letting a campaign finance bill--that the House passed unanimously--see the light of day in the Senate.
And Quinn's not the only one with Blago in his sights (and site! hayoh!): Dick Durbin's not on the Rod Squad today, either. Durbin says Blagojevich and legislative leaders are stalling plans for a suburban airport.
BP's HQs are leaving town. Leaving with it: 3,300 jobs.
On a personal note, I would pay money to hear Eric Zorn say "ruh-roh."
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Quinn's site also doesn't work with Firefox!
@Scooter Libbby
Works fine for me in firefox, you need the Adobe flash plugin though.
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"The Rod Squad", I am stealing this phrase for my toolchest, classic ;-)
Whats everyone's feelings on Quinn?
I like him better than Blago, he seems a bit more genuine. I still can't put my finger on why I don't really trust Quinn though, other than he is a politician.
dj skilz: Pat Quinn is widely regarded as a progressive, one of the "good guys" in Illinois. But don't take my word for it. Read the interview that we did with him earlier this year, and make up your own mind.
I disagree with quinn on some issues but He has been kept on the outside by the Dem machine because he seems to be genuine and honest and we know how Blago Daley Stroger E. Jones and madigan feel about honesty they just dont believe in it. He is kept out of the public eye by the Gov because the Gov wants nothing to do with ethics reform. It would make it to hard to give state jobs and contracts to contibutors. And he doesnt want to declare what he does with his campaign money. E.Jones doesnt want ethics reform because then he would have to explain how his whole family has state jobs or are sub contractors on state contracts he controlled. Quinn Will never get ethics reform because Illinois aint ready for reform
The Sun-Times's spot-on editorial is completely degraded by heinous illustration that accompanies it, from the same "artist" who also did yesterday's ricockulously bad Stroger drawing.
Who are the editors of this site to mock anyone else's editorial cartoons, or put the word artist in sarcastic quotes, considering atrocious Tim Daly cartoons posted on Chicagoist with the horribly misappropriated name "Chicago School" ?