Emil Jones Announces Retirement: Taxpayers to Save Money!
Phil Kadner’s recent column in Daily Southtown outlines a good list of Emil Jone’s accomplishments while Senate Majority Leader in Springfield:
$70,000
pay increase for his wife’s state job.
$56,000-a-year
state job for his son, who lacked a college degree
$700,000
contract for stepson's technology company as a subcontractor by a firm
doing business with the state
And then
there were the “tens of millions of dollars in contracts awarded to the
stepson's company by the City Colleges of Chicago” according to Kadner.
One thing we can be certain to result from Jone’s retirement:taxpayers will save money!
Oark Park Township Republican Committeeman Vacancy
The Cook County Republican Party is currently seeking to fill the
recent vacancy for Republican Committeeman in Oak Park Township. The
vacancy is appointed by Cook County Republican Party Chairman Lee Roupas, and will run until the
next Township Republican Committeemen elections in the Primary Election of 2014.
If you live in Oark Park Township, and want to take on this important grassroots leadership role, please email jon@cookrepublicanparty.com.
Deadline for resume submissions is Friday, March 19.
An Inconvenient Truth: Decade has had fewest 90-degree days since 1930
Chicago’s favorite weatherman Tom Skilling has this to report on Chicago’s cool summer:
"August is the wettest and often the muggiest month of the year. Yet, summer heat continues in short supply, continuing a trend that has dominated much of the 21st Century's opening decade. There have been only 162 days 90 degrees or warmer at Midway Airport over the period from 2000 to 2008. That's by far the fewest 90-degree temperatures in the opening nine years of any decade on record here since 1930.
This summer's highest reading to date has been just 91 degrees. That's unusual. Since 1928, only one year—2000—has failed to record a higher warm-season temperature by Aug. 13."
No word from Al Gore on Chicago’s unusually cool summers.
