Nod to my friend Mike Kean for the link. Worth the time if you have just 20 minutes to watch.
Blog Posts
Looking Back at the Park Forest Meteorite (Video/Story)
A fragment of the Park Forest Meteorite. (Jon Taylor on Flikr) In the wake of the meteorite that exploded over central Russian in mid-February, CBS channel 2 Chicago ran a story looking back at the Park Forest Meteorite. Striking on March 26, 2003, we are fast approaching the 10-year anniversary[Read More…]
White House Blog: A Balanced Plan to Avert the Sequester and Reduce the Deficit
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 21, 2013. By Jennifer Palmieri,White House Director of Communications In eight days, harmful automatic cuts are slated to take effect, threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs, and cutting vital services for children, seniors, people with mental illness and our men and women in uniform. Only Congress can avoid[Read More…]
Seidel et al. at the Star: Drew Peterson judge rejects bid for new trial
How many times have we heard names like Peterson’s, only to forget them after they’ve gone away? We may have heard the last of Drew Peterson for a while, at least until he is sentenced. From the Southtown Star: Drew Peterson won’t get a new trial, a Will County judge[Read More…]
Toner at the Star: Judge tosses suit filed by SD 227 counselor who wrote sex book
With all the lawsuits clogging the wheels of justice, this one getting tossed caught me by surprise. From the Southtown Star: A federal judge has tossed out the $1 million lawsuit a former Rich Central High School counselor and basketball coach filed against Rich Township High School District 227 after[Read More…]
Southtown Star: Rescuers sue in 2011 gas blast in Park Forest
We knew the lawsuits would come from this one, we did not anticipate this one. Did not realize the rescuers were injured as they were, nor that the contractors ran away. From the Southtown Star: Two men hurt when they rescued a Park Forest woman from her burning townhouse after[Read More…]
Sun-Times Video: Jesse Jackson Jr.’s Lawyer Speaks
From the Chicago Sun-Times: WASHINGTON – Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Sandi, lived the high life by funnelling campaign funds to pay for more than 3,000 personal purchases, including flat-screen televisions, pricey memorabilia, appliances for their Chicago home, stuffed toys, mounted elk heads, health club dues[Read More…]
Sun-Times Video – Jesse Jackson Jr.: ‘Tell everybody I’m sorry I let them down.’
From the Chicago Sun-Times: WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. pleaded guilty Wednesday in a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C., to conspiring to illegally spend about $750,000 in campaign money on personal uses, including a Rolex, pricey memorabilia, furs and other luxury items. “For years I lived off[Read More…]
Sun-Times: Ex-Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Could Face 57 Months in Prison (Video)
From the Chicago Sun-Times: Jackson Jr. could face 46 to 57 months under sentencing guidelines and be ordered to pay significant amounts of money in forfeiture. The former congressman, 47, resigned from office in November amid the pressures of a federal criminal investgation and a diagnosis of bipolar depression. Read[Read More…]
Sun-Times: Gay-marriage bill that does ‘what’s right’ passes Senate, moves to House
Breaking, from the Chicago Sun-Times: SPRINGFIELD-Illinois moved a step closer Thursday to becoming the 10th state to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry as the state Senate approved legalizing gay marriage in a vote one backer described as "one for the history books." "It is time Illinois get rid[Read More…]
