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By Natasha Julius
We know exactly what you’ll be doing this weekend. We’ll just watch the news.
Market Update
So, hang on, if you raise prices but your market share keeps on shrinking, aren’t you kind of breaking even?
Posted on January 15, 2011
By Steve Rhodes
And now, the amazing saga of how the unelected wife of a Lincoln Park zoning lawyer cast the deciding vote to raise Illinois’s taxes!
Kathy Moore, you are this young year’s Worst Person In Illinois.
Posted on January 14, 2011
By Steve Rhodes
“On the campaign trail, Gov. Pat Quinn told voters he’d veto any income tax hike that would raise Illinois’ rate over 4 percent,” the Daily Herald reports.
“But Wednesday Quinn said he’ll sign into law a plan to raise the rate by 2 percentage points, to 5 percent.”
In July, Quinn said he would only support a 1 percentage point increase.
“I’m going to veto anything that’s not my plan.”
Posted on January 13, 2011
By Steve Rhodes
Ripped from the headlines.
1. Taking Cell Call Tops List Of Job Interview Blunders.
What if it’s a better offer?
Posted on January 12, 2011
By Steve Rhodes
To my Facebook opponents: You can now stop arguing with me and start arguing with Jon Stewart, because apparently he’s on my side.
Rahm’s Race Card
“Police Supt. Jody Weis is forging ahead with plans to reallocate police resources to higher-crime districts – even though all four top mayoral contenders plan to dump him and one voiced opposition to crime-fighting solutions that ‘divide the city,'” the Sun-Times reports.
Posted on January 11, 2011
By Steve Rhodes
Things I posted or wrote on my Facebook page this weekend:
* Not Every Terrorist Is A Product Of The Right Or Left.
* Steve Rhodes proposes a new law: You are not allowed to speak, post, tweet, write or communicate in any way unless or until you know what the hell you are talking about.
Posted on January 10, 2011
By Natasha Julius
The Beachwood Reporter exploded yesterday. The Weekend Desk is here to pick up the pieces.
Market Update
The Cock-Eyed Optimism Index took a hit this week as it turns out Too Much of a Good Thing is not necessarily a good thing after all.
Posted on January 8, 2011
By Steve Rhodes
Lura Lynn Ryan is in the intensive care unit, prompting state political reporter Rich Miller to write:
“I’ve said in the past that the law, not emotions, should decide whether George Ryan is released from prison. But it’s darned difficult to watch Lura Lynn Ryan’s possibly imminent death play out in front of my face without thinking that the former governor ought to be let out for a few hours to be by her side.”
Posted on January 6, 2011
