With teacher retirement hanging in the balance, legislators take a holiday break. How nice for them. The current session of the Illinois General Assembly ends on Tuesday. There is no state budget. Which social programs are being cut and by how much still remain to be voted on. And they have put off a vote on Senate Bill 512, the ...
No SB 512 vote today, Saturday. Maybe tomorrow. The IEA is reporting that there will be no vote on Senate Bill 512 today, Saturday. Senate Bill 512 is the teacher pension killer bill. The Illinois House has adjourned until tomorrow afternoon. Call your rep again.
I’ve been thinking some more about the NEA Obama endorsement. Back in 1992 when the triangulating Bill Clinton was running for President he created a totally contrived controversy around a hip hop artist by the name of Sister Souljah. The very cynical Clinton and his advisers like James Carville were trying to ...
Old school. Professor Longhair and the Meters.
Saturday coffee. The Facebook pages of my older friends all had messages about Gil Scott-Heron this morning. He died Friday. He was my age. Youtube videos. Quotes from his lyrics. Memories. In the mid-70s, if you were politically active and were at a party, Gil ...
