It's important to note that this fund do NOT include CPS teachers. Illinois public school teachers and retirees could have reason to worry about the kinds of pension checks they will be getting down the line. ... The Springfield State-Journal register reported over...
Politics
Clout Boosts Ex-Police Chief $30k per Year
The Machine taking care of its own: At first blush, a pension bill adopted by the General Assembly in 2007 seemed to have a laudable goal: extending retirement benefits to local police force employees’ widows after they remarried. But buried within the legislation was...
WI Billboard: Truth to Power on Teachers’ Unions
This is an idea I've discussed with CTU reps at a meeting one time. CTU cannot represent "the children." The truth is that CTU, WEAC, and all other teacher's unions have a fiduciary duty to the union members. The union cannot do anything which would advance the...
McCarthy (Rahm) Shakes-up Police Brass (Not Really)
This past week Rahm launched an ambitious plan to revitalize the city. However in order to make that work, he must first prevent Chicago from becoming Gotham. The post below talks about how the lack of enough police officers is causing a false reduction in the...