I’m #19 on the IEA Retired ballot.
My ballot for retired delegate to the NEA RA has arrived. I’ll mark it tomorrow and drop it in the mail box. I’m number #19. There are 27 IEA Retired members running and they are all good folks. They have to be to offer up themselves to spend 10 days in Denver the week of July 4th. There are three days for the Retired Conference and six more for the NEA RA. Plus toss in a day for travel. Trust me.
Phil Kadner. If Rauner could create thousands of jobs, cut waste and produce billions in new tax revenue within weeks of the next election, he ought to audition for a part as Moses in the remake of “The Ten Commandments.”
- Phil Kadner writes for the Daily Southtown Star. “For too long, Illinois has underfunded its schools and overburdened its property taxpayers,” Gov. Pat Quinn said Wednesday. Well, it’s hard to argue with a man who repeats a message that I’ve been sending to readers of this column for 20 years. The property tax is the most unfair tax of all and not based on ability to pay, the governor said. Abs
John J. Garvey. Is this how we thank our teachers?
John J. Garvey, a retired Chicago school teacher. His letter appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times. Imagine you are in your mid-70s and retired from the Chicago Public Schools for over a decade. You have a comfortable pension because you dedicated 39 years of your life to serve as a teacher and administrator in the school district. When you finished college, you entered the profession you had dreamed
Revenue, revenue, revenue. And tax fairness.
Bruce Rauner’s budget address. Illinois’ financial problem is rooted in a lack of sufficient revenue and tax fairness. Quinn’s budget address yesterday starts to acknowledge what we have said. He was right to call for keeping the 5% income tax place. Illinois is one of the lowest taxing, lowest spending states in the country. Bruce Rauner’s call for even lower corporate and lower taxes on the we
3-26-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: A tangled web of Rauner, Madigan, Stand for Children’s Edelman and the IEA leaders. I’m sorry I wasn’t louder.. One of the more curious charges leveled against me by Haisman/Swanson is that I didn’t make any criticisms of Bruce Rayner until the final morning of the primary campaign. Even casual reader
