Call It A Comeback
Apparently the worst storm Ameren has ever dealt with in its 100 year history.
The line behind my house is down–given the scope of this one and I’m towards the end of the line, power might be out for 3-4 days. So posting will be erratic.
He has no pitching staff and his offense has virtually no talent.
If you want to blame someone–Jim Hendry’s available.
Why haven’t I blogged about the Stroger inheritance?
If you have sufficiently low expectations of the Stroger clan, it’s hard to be outraged.
I don’t have time to check relative growth in border states, but a basic point here is that between 2002 and 2006, there has been an increase of 29,994 licensed fiscal trucks which are trucks over 8,000 pounds. I actually got the numbers because someone in Rich’s comments was claiming what a dramatic drop in licensed trucks one would observe statewide.
What is interesting is that out of 103 jurisdictions (102 counties + Chicago), only 3 counties showed any sort of decline
Williamson lost 697 Deep south, but not directly on the border
Macon lost 487 Decatur–not a border county even.
Johnson lost 8 Not quite border, but deep south again.
Two things strike me about these three counties–all three have economies in the crapper more than most other communities and they don’t have great access to interstates. Decatur has some, but I’d rate it lower than any of the other four Central Illinois cities (combining the two twin cities).
Following with single digit increases were Pope, Wabash and Lawrence which are all far south and have crappy economies.
Overall there is a 20 percent increase in licensed fiscal trucks from 153834
to 183828. This is just a quick analysis, but I’d say that if Blagojevich knew about these numbers it might actually provide a strong talking point for him. I don’t have time to check into bordering states and their relative growth, especially along the border, but it’s hard to believe that a 20% increase would have been much more without the tax.
St. Louis Public Schools just fired Creg Williams. Current Board President confused herself with a manager and suggested she just needed more control….
then another of the geniuses who fired them was pissed off because there just weren’t enough administrators who were familiar with St. Louis.
This was by design. St. Louis is notoriously a small town in a big metro area where everyone is everyone’s friend. When you are trying to actually educate kids instead of keeping people employed, that’s a problem.
Williams is originally from Chicago and followed Vallas to Philly. He won’t be unemployed long as he’s a hell of an administrator and very strong in high school reform–a vexing problem in almost all urban high schools.
How about starting that invasion soon? Illinois, come to our rescue.
$109204.50 Raised
$37977.37 Spent
$295186.70 On hand
Weller is sitting on $1 million so John will have to have a good next quarter, but he’s keeping his spending down even with staffing up.
$844287.37 Raised
$261304.23 Spent
$901694.72 On Hand
$361,141 Raised
$115663.78 Spent
$507975.09 on hand.
It’s about a poll between Yaphett El-Amin and “known caucasion” Jeff Smith in a Missouri State Senate Race. Download file
It’s a beaut. Notice it was sent from ACORN’s office and another hysterical feature is that John Cross is the Political Director For SEIU Local 2000 down here.
It’s a great ‘read’ as well.
I’m having some minor tech problems on my end, but in the mean time, it appears Pete, the Anti-Abortion Crusader, still isn’t quite grasping the concept of satire
One theory is that Andy Kaufmann is, in fact, alive.
He’s rapidly approaching 2000 comments on the posts. One might start to feel sorry for the guy if he didn’t keep attempting to treat the Onion article as serious. While such intransigence is probably a good sign to feel sorry for him, such feelings are greatly outweighed by the desire to see how far this guy can go.
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