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posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 1:28 am

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MALDEF knows best. They are experts on institutional discrimination. Revise the maps. Do not go to court over something you can fix now.

Comment by H-W Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 7:53 am
I just received one of those scam Secretary of State text messages. “Important Notification” and a link goes to a form on Google Docs. (I did not click the link, but used another device with VPN.)

Comment by yinn Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 8:54 am
Horse medicine is not people medicine but more in line with snake oil.

Also, another Sox sweep. Putting Tim Anderson on the 10-day IL is smart right now, let him heal unencumbered, hard line.

Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 9:16 am
=== MALDEF knows best. They are experts on institutional discrimination. Revise the maps.===

How is their record in this regard?

Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 9:16 am
Was watching an episode of Medical Detectives last night, a German language series that essentially takes old Forensic Files episodes, dubs them, and adds some German content (1-2 min per episode about German forensics or German points of law). The crime was set in a town in IL. PyorEEa (stress on that EE) it took me some time to figure out it was Peoria.

Comment by cermak_rd Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 9:58 am
For all the demonization places like IPI try to throw around about Illinois, I look at places like Texas and suddenly I get a lot more content.

Comment by Homebody Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 10:03 am
For all the complaints that people have about Chatham water since they left CWLP’s water supply and went with South Sangamon Water Commission about 10 years ago, lately CWLP drinking water hasn’t been much better. Musty, dirty smells and taste due to changes in Lake Springfield water:

https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/2021/09/01/lake-springfield-drinking-water-city-light-power-utilities-todd-lafountain/5685212001/

I’ve even noticed smelly water in my state building lately too. Not drinking the tap water in our building now.

Comment by NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 10:19 am
yes, we have some horrible violence issues in Chicago. But we don’t have fires like the West Coast and we don’t have flooding like the South and East Coast. Both of these weather patterns will continue. And, thank you Democrats, we have laws that support women’s agency, unlike Texas. We are more livable.

Comment by Amalia Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 10:29 am
One of the things that I really get out of the German (and Dutch) studies is that it relaxes me about the future of democracy. Lincoln had to worry about government of/for/by the people being wiped from the face of the earth. We don’t. So even if our country falls apart from its own inner incoherencies, that’s regrettable, but OK. There are other models of citizen led governance out there.

Comment by cermak_rd Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 10:48 am
Oak Lawn High was on lockdown for a while, but whatever it was, it seems to be over.

Comment by Cheryl44 Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 10:51 am
Amalia says its right. If we want Illinois to grow economically, we need to continue on this path. Emphasize our transportation, education, relative climate stability, and water availability, plus our commitment to individual liberties. That should be a heck of a sales pitch, especially to climate migrant businesses from California.

Comment by Jibba Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 10:59 am
Watching the flash flood emergency in NYC and the fires out west. Then thinking that some people still don’t take climate change seriously.

Comment by sladay Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 11:45 am
The Sun-Times attempts to predict the TV announcers for this season’s Bears games. Other than SNF Week 1 and the Lions on Thanksgiving (the latter a Fox game and it will be Buck and Aikman), it looks like they’re predicting C and D-game (or less) announcers (Chris Myers, Daryl Johnston, etc.)

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2021/9/2/22654148/chicago-bears-nfl-on-fox-cbs-adam-amin-joe-buck-kevin-kugler-kevin-burkhardt-gus-johnson-tony-romo

Comment by NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 12:22 pm
I thought this was an interesting story related to the Shotspotter discussion we had not too long back, for anyone curious

https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-algorithm-technology-police-crime-7e3345485aa668c97606d4b54f9b6220

Comment by Nick Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 12:58 pm
@sladay, right. so right. watching the coverage of a town where the water came up 11 feet…in NY state….was sobering. also love the gov. of NJ. he’s nimble. and the new NY gov is a teeny thing in front of the rest of the pols, new on the job and this happens.

Comment by Amalia Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 1:27 pm
“Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) is getting “tired” of hearing about these sales figures, he said in April, joking that Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) always “thanks me for having Wisconsinites cross the border to buy marijuana” since the neighboring state does not have a legal market.”

Funny…unless you’re locked in an Illinois or Wisconsin prison cell for pot.

Comment by Dotnonymous Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 1:28 pm
Daily Chronicle reports that Sycamore-based Morningstar Media Group owner Ryan Weckerly has been charged by the Feds with wire fraud and tax evasion for a kickback scheme that defrauded a Janesville, WI, hospital of $3 million beginning in 2015. Weckerly and his partner in literal crime, an executive of the hospital, have pled guilty.

Morningstar does a lot of business (websites, marketing campaigns) with local units of government in DeKalb County, including the cities of DeKalb and Sycamore.

https://tinyurl.com/4bxxyfck

Comment by yinn Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 1:31 pm
If approved by City Council, Lakeisha Purchase will be moving from trustee of the beleaguered Capital Township to new Ward 5 alderwoman. Replacing Andrew Proctor. Langfelder announced his nomination today.

The article mentions that our “old friend” Sam Cahnman also applied for his old job.

https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/government/2021/09/02/lakeisha-purchase-nominated-springfield-city-council-vacancy/5700371001/

Comment by NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham Thursday, Sep 2, 21 @ 8:05 pm

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