Pensions and the bigger picture.
Graphic: Rolling Stone Magazine. How Wall Street Robs Public Workers. Thanks Rose. Rose is the latest person to send this blog a link to Matt Taibbi’s Rolling Stone piece on the looting of America’s pensions. Our state pension is threatened by (at least) three sources. The attack by the state’s (mainly Democratic Party) politicians. They are ready to violate contractual and constitutional prot
It’s for the kids? Child molester and pornographer is a Rahm and Duncan political appointee.
llinois Department of Corrections mugshot of Jesus Alanis, 42, of Chicago, a former City Hall and Chicago Public Schools employee convicted in a child-sex case and sentenced to 20 years in prison (Chicago Sun-Times). Another day. Another UNO-City Hall scandal. The Sun-Times reports that Jesus Alanis is headed for Stateville Penetentiary. Arrested in 2012, he was just convicted of child molestat
Glen Brown: A commitment to uphold the constitution and a commitment to violate it.
Teacher/poet/musician Glen Brown: A Commitment to Uphold the Illinois State Constitution: “Cook County Circuit Court Judge Neil Cohen ruled that Quinn’s action violated the state constitution. The judge ordered Illinois’ comptroller to pay legislators’ salaries along with interest on the two months of pay they missed” (Reuters, September 26). A Commitment to Violate the Illinois State Constitut
A TRS member tries to get answers about his pension.
Ask TRS Communications Director Dave Urbanek about a report in the Sun-Times that Cabrera Capital and Martin Cabrera made $2 million in commissions from TRS and you a boiler-plate email response and a hostile challenge on the phone. Cabrera recently resigned from UNO, a major charter operator in Chicago. UNO has been the center of financial scandals. “Where are you going with this,” he demanded to
9-26-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Asking a question about my pension.Reading a story in the Chicago Sun-Times by staff reporter Dan Mihalopoulos about some sleazy connections between Martin Cabrera and alderman Fast Eddy Burke, Valor Realty and some other old Blagojevich pals, I came across this sentence: Between 2003 and 2012, the Te