Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Let’s all Welcome ThyssenKrupp to Chicago
As ThyssenKrupp plans to dramatically increase its presence in Chicago it’s finding out just what life here is really like: … [T]he German-based ThyssenKrupp manufacturing company is facing allegations that company supervisors in the city created a hostile and intimidating work environment for an African-American employee. A superintendant at ThyssenKrupp used the N-word “routinely” around…
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ThyssenKrupp (w/ 100 jobs) Coming to Chicago
We actually rock (and we kinda know it.) Germany-based ThyssenKrupp, a diversified manufacturing company that makes elevators, auto components and carbon steel, will establish a regional headquarters for North America in Chicago this summer…. The company did not seek financial incentives as it considered more than 20 cities around the U.S. for the regional headquarters.…
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Illinois, the Greece of America
It all started with this story: Even though the legislature and Gov. Pat Quinn last year imposed a temporary 67 percent state income tax increase, Quinn’s office expects to have a $500 million budget deficit this year. Quinn is calling for a 9 percent cut in most areas of state government, except education and health care. But…
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Occupy Chicago Gets a Home
Occupy Chicago has secured a new home base to coordinate its winter activities. The group is leasing two units on the fifth and seventh floors of Riverfront Work Lofts at 500 W. Cermak Road. … The fifth-floor unit is nearly 3,400 square feet, while the seventh-floor unit is about 2,500 square feet. Kaunert said protesters…
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Ward Remap: Round Two
Alderman Bob Fioretti 2nd Ward, one of eight alderman to vote no on the map, stated in his email newsletter on Thursday that he has no intentions of dropping the issue. “I believe that new map breaks up communities of interest and includes deviations in population from ward to ward, which may subject it to…
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Ron Paul Predictions from 2002
http://youtu.be/zGDisyWkIBM
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Church Groups Getting Public Money
Here’s something: Faith-based groups that have become the face of community support for Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s controversial plans to lengthen the school day and close failing schools also receive millions of dollars in grants from his administration. … One of the key players touting grass-roots support for Emanuel’s agenda is the Rev. Roosevelt Watkins, a…
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#OCCUPYCHICAGO
I found a post on Second City Cop about the madness coming this spring. SCC was concerned that the kids were going to “live without dead time for a month in May and see what happens.” Hardly a threat. What I found interesting was their claim that: On May 1, 50,000 people from all over…
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Illinois Unemployment vs. The Media
Good News!! CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Unemployment dropped to 9.8 percent in Illinois in December, state officials said Friday, a second straight monthly decrease that capped a year in which the jobless rate fell almost a full percentage point from 2010. via Chicago Tribune. Or, maybe not: The unemployment rate in the Chicago area rose…
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Who’s Pro Business?
Recently published is a series of stories on where it’s easier/better to start and run a business. Whether we like it or not, businesses employ people; people do not employ businesses. Creating and maintaining a pro-business environment is not easy. But sure Illinois generally, and Chicago specifically, are failing… or are they? First, a national…
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