Critique of Crete Monee School Board Statement
Letter to the editor accuses the Crete Monee School Board of issuing a self serving rationale about a race related lawsuit. It argues the board failed to resolve issues and kept students central while criticizing the method of electing board members and the spending on lawyers. It urges recognition of Voting Rights Act priorities and cost effective, fair resolutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crete-Monee School Board
University Park
Monee Township
Equal Educational Opportunity Commission
Crete-Monee
U.S. District Court
Black church turns welfare into a modern farming empire
Chicago Heights author Valerie Gonzales profiles a Mississippi church that pooled welfare funds to stock a church grocery, then built two supermarkets, 4000 acres of farmland, cattle, a gas station, meat plants and three restaurants. The piece argues welfare fosters dependency and praises self reliance through private enterprise led by church members.
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Mississippi
America
Germany
North Korea
Illinois officials object to Peotone airport expense
Letter writer denounces a planned Peotone airport and a taxpayer funded Denver trip by Illinois officials. He cites Newsweek’s Denver airport critique and urges cost savings, teleconferences, and video briefings to avoid waste, sprawl, and bond defaults.
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Illinois
Peotone
The
Star
Denver
Bipartisan push for quick release of 2 million airport study funds
Democratic Reps. Sangmeister and Lipinski call for expedited release of 2 million for a third regional airport study. They seek added language urging Edgar to pursue regional consensus before further federal funds are released. State Sen. DeAngelis backs the Lipinski effort as airport chatter suggests funds may be released next week with or without them.
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U.S
George Sangmeister
Mokena
William O. Lipinski
Chicago
George Bush
Jim Edgar
Lip
Edgar
Aldo DeAngelis
R-Olympia Fields
Peotone
Lang
Airport Buzz
Big George
Illinois Tollway restricts trucks to two right lanes
The Toll Highway Authority says starting tomorrow trucks will be limited to the two right lanes on all tollways with multiple lanes, except during Tri-State Tollway construction. The change aims to steer trucks onto a safer, more organized flow, with police enforcement expected.
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Illinois
Cable firms face new pay law as TV station warns
Cook County GOP and Illinois Labor Relations Board Chairman Manny Hoffman report a Friday meeting with a major television station GM about a October law letting over the air networks charge cable providers. WMAQ general manager Pat Wallace says stations not paid by October 6 could be dropped from systems, shaping a volatile industry outcome. Peotone gains notoriety as airport talks and Open Meetings Act indictments draw attention. state Rep. John Novak says he was shocked by indictments and may testify if asked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook County Gop
Illinois Labor Relations Board
Manny Hoffman
Wmaq-Tyv
Pat Wallace
Peotone
Will County
John “Phil” Novak
D-Kankakee
Monee
Novak
County official tours 10th floor closet offices for district design
Cook County aide David Carvalho criticized a column over a so called map room. Dwight Welch relayed the story about a janitor’s closet on the county building’s 10th floor that hosts two offices computers and staff and is free for visitors to inspect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Carvalho
Cook County Board
Richard Phelan
Country Club Hills
Dwight Welch
Carvalho
Carvalo
Campaign chatter and civic notices mix in mixed Illinois political roundups
A fragmented column lists 1994 and 1998 political maneuvers from Illinois figures including Jim Ryan Jeff Ladd Bill Balthis and Dawn Clark Netsch with sundry local notes. It cites Clinton events in Chicago a memorial run for the ADA and a Robbins incinerator stand alongside a district school board candidacy and a township committee outing in Lockport.
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DuPage County
Jim Ryan
Illinois
Metro
Jeff Ladd
Cook County
Jack O’malley
Jim
Dawn Clark Netsch
GOP
Bill Balthis
Lansing
Bill
Balthis
Bill Clinton
Chicago
The
Prez
Paul Simon
Clinton
Simon
Chicago Heights
Billy Hardys
Allen Schindler
Dorothy Hardys
Commonwealth Edison
Diedrus Brown-Underwood
Flossmoor
District 161 Board of Education
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Lenin
Winston Churchill
Forbes Magazine
New York City
Jawanzaq Kunjufu
Malcolm X
Catherine Turner
Willie Drake
Pauline Christian Community Church
Valerie Gonzales
Newsweek
Motel 6
Dixie Mall
David J. Stor
Eugene
Aem
Ae Ah Ce
Bohirie
Samuel P. Mathew
M.D
Internal Medicine & Cardiology
Shelle Optical Ua
Eyi Fr
Perret Rm
State OF Council
Habla Espan
Matteson
Market Place Plaza
Kidsmart
Daniel A. Yohay
Adrienne L. Fregia
Olympia Fields
Internal Medicine Associates
S.C
West
Lincoln Highway
Myra Guindon
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