The Board meeting we went to a few weeks ago was excruciatingly boring, but some parts got cattier than a sorority house during period week. Looks like that was the theme yesterday, too, when things really got ugly at and after the meeting, with Bill Beavers leading the charge. But he wasn't the only one--lots of people got in on the action. Liz Gorman on Tony Peraica: "loser," "pathetic, pathological liar," "abusive weasel," "no man,"... more ›

Part of us thinks we're paranoid for protecting our personal identity like the Holy Grail, changing passwords every couple months, shredding every piece of paper with even a scrap of identifying data on it before it leaves our house, refusing to ever give out our Social Security number unless it's absolutely necessary. The thing is, we're not so much worried about someone actively going after this information as we are about it falling into the... more ›

The Cook County government may be corrupt, but apparently they have some limits. For example, they won't let you expense more than $185-an-hour for private attorney fees. Cut it a little close, and maybe they'll give you a break, but try to charge $485-an-hour, well, that's where they put their foot down. The Sun-Times reports that the County Board rejected a request by an employee to pay their attorney's exorbitant $485-an-hour rates. The firm of... more ›