Sunday links.
Illinois teachers: Don’t forget that every Tuesday is Pension Call Tuesday. We’ll post the phone number or email of an Illinois Representative and you make the call. “Our pension benefits are constitutionally protected. As Dick Ingram, the head of TRS said, there is no funding crisis. We have always paid our share. And it was a promise you made to the teachers of this state.”
Message to John Kass, Tribune columnist (Don’t we miss Mike Royko?). Why don’t you take a cut in pay. I mean your paper is in trouble and you can help. You want Chicago teachers to work for $4 an hour. We all should make a sacrifice. Right, John?
H/T to Jersey Jazzman: Goodnight Irene.
David Reber: Money matters. Reality matters. Whether it’s closing the achievement gap or flying to Mars,