Ignore the drivel that flowed during this week’s national kumbaya address. Social Security: bankrupt Unemployment claims: climbing, up 51K Federal deficit: through the roof, hitting $1.5 trillion Obamacare: a flood of more waivers, surging from 222 to 729 Tidy how all the numbers were released after The One’s big show.
There is absolutely no reason for Center City Partners chief Michael Smith to be pocketing $346K-plus a year, other than our city council is loaded with gullible toads lacking spine enough to buck the uptown mafia. That they’re apparently willing to sit there and swallow an arrogantly defensive rationale hustled by Smith, that his uptown […]
That would be Sen. Rand Paul, in his response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. Some folks might think Paul is too over-the-top unrealistic with his proposal to cut the federal deficit by $500 billion. In one year. Yet at the other end of the spectrum, we have Obama feigning a new fiscal […]
To the tune of more than $160 million worth of legal bills in civil lawsuits accusing the mortgage finance companies and former top brass of fraud. This from the New York Times: The bulk of those expenditures — $132 million — went to defend Fannie Mae and its officials in various securities suits and government […]
Fairy tales can come true. It can happen to you. Or in this case maybe to Bright Beginnings, which received a reprieve from the budget ax this week when the school board voted to delay a decision to cut $10.4 million from the popular pre-kindergarten program. At the same time, the board moved forward with […]
Well, that didn’t take long. Rahm Emanuel is back on the ballot in Chicago, after the Illinois Supreme Court today issued a stay of yesterday’s appellate court decision the yanked Emanuel’s name from the mayoral race. This from Bloomberg: The high court ordered the city’s election officials to include Emanuel’s name on any ballots printed […]
A little something to help pass the time during tonight’s national kumbaya address: the official PunditHouse State of the Union BoINGO Card. Feel free to play along at home – on the honor system, natch – by checking off any phrases or words that President Obama uses in his speech. Disclaimer: For entertainment purposes only; […]
Or not. With only four weeks until Chicago’s mayoral election, and with former Team BO chief of staff Rahm Emanuel holding a big lead in most polls, an appellate court panel ruled today that Emanuel’s name should be yanked from the ballot because he did not meet the residency standard to run for mayor. The […]
From busing, that is. Been a lot of folks wanting an explanation for how CMS would save $4 million in transportation costs by changing bell schedules at more than 100 of the district’s elementary schools. “It expands the window for us to optimize our bus routes,” Ed Shed COO Hugh Hattabaugh told county commissioners last […]
After a bruising budget year for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library that saw branch closings, reduced operating hours, and scores of layoffs, library chief Charles Brown is checking out after seven years at the helm. He announced his retirement this week, effective June 30 at the end of the fiscal year. Until then Brown will continue […]
