The PWC did not trash or eliminate the RKFD vocational programs, that happen in 1987 by the BOE and headed up by two high school principals that were home grown leaders (so-called) from East and Guilford High.

Store fronts are vacant, occupancy is down even on E. State Street. My point is that we don’t have the same tax base as the other communities you referenced. That’s a fact. We simply don’t do enough to bring better paying jobs to the area. We need to focus on crime and education, then companies with better paying jobs might be willing to relocate here. Unfortunately, we need to create the jobs here, and can’t rely on residents traveling to good paying jobs, unlike the other communities you referenced.

I was under the impression that the “crisis” was a result of them being required to fund retirement costs 75 years into the future inside a 10 year span.

Seems pretty much like sabotauge to me. I don’t want to wait a three days longer for my mail, and I sure as heck don’t want a private interest controlling the flow of physical communications in this country down the road.

Also, Aurora is substantially larger than Rockford, and Naperville a tad smaller. Both of which have a higher median income range than Rockford as they are largely commuter cities, residents taking advantage of the Metra train line to work in Chicago, and the better paying jobs in Chicago. Higher household earnings lead to more disposable incomes which can keep local business districts alive.

However your key thought that “crime and the economy are intimately connected” is accurate, please keep reminding folks of this.

Youth handlers must be at least 7 years old. We hope to see you out this weekend. Check out the DockDogs Facebook at http://facebook.com/officialdockdogs for more information.

Thanks!

In his 1994 letter to Log Cabin Republicans, posted here, Romney wrote of making “equality for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern.”

Even if his “company” was the best and cheapest, a good man with any insight would know when to step back. This looks bad. Smells worse. As soon as this project was proposed I’ll bet he had grand visions of a very fat wallet to complement his very fat…

I can’t believe the people of this county keep re-electing this guy. Maybe it’s because he’s just so good looking.

and to CHRISTI on commenting

“we should be fighting for better workplace conditions and family leave. Changes to these policies, more than anything else, would increase the breastfeeding rates and help support all American families.”

As a representative of a probiotics manufacturing company ,I would like to state the following NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING WILL EVER COME CLOSE TO HUMAN BREAST MILK NOTHING.

I respectfully disagree with CHRISTI on one point
re breastfeeding.

BREAST FEEDING IS FREE AND ALWAYS WILL BE .

Thank you
ROBERT BESON
PROGURT

When we occasionally drive through this area, my kids start asking each other “Who cut the cheese?” It stinks terribly. And trash is blown into the highest trees. The debris doesn’t clear until you are several miles down I-39.

Unfortunately, our obtuse and obese county chairman will in the end, get what he wants. Dessert and a big dump (pun intended).

Her attorney Albukerk obtained a hung jury on the eavesdropping charge where she is accused of recording a phone conversation with a court reporter, who she claims has altered a court transcript. Anabel has fired this very good attorney and alienated most of her friends due to misunderstandings (its hard to get correct info while in jail).

She is trying to represent herself an
and filed a well written motion that the eavesdropping law is illegal, yet to be heard.

I believe the law will be declared illegal concerning recording police officers in public (the topic of the other headline cases about eavesdropping arrests), but she may have a hard time with her case as she did not record an officer in public.

She meets the exception to the law in that she has a good faith belief she was recording someone (the supervisor of the court reporter) who she thought was going to admit that the transcript was altered (concerning the computer tampering charge).
At the trial Annabel’s attorney Albukerk put an FBI agent on the stand who stated that Anabel came to the FBI with evidence of SALF fraud, that she uncovered as their IT person. The agent admitted Anabel thought that the court reporter committed fraud (I think she said this but I don’t have the transcript and she may have couched her words).

The state admits that the SALF computer was NOT hooked with the Internet so there is no computer tampering yet they have not dismissed the charge. The SALF two investigators admit that Anabel could not have tampered with the computers yet the state has not dropped the charges.

Bail was originally raised to $500,000 due to the second arrest and the state’s attorney’s statement that she is a flight risk because she has a foreign passport! With NO criminal record this is NOT enough excuse for such a high bailo.

Albukerk argued for a lower bail, but the Judge refused except to lo0wer it to $300,000. Anabel is now a pauper, having lost all her possessiions while in jail.

I filed a next-friend habeas petition on behalf of Anabel stating there was no probable cause and Judge McHale violated IL statute stating it was illegal for a non-attorney to file a next-friend habeas petition. I told the judge he was violating this law, the Constitution suspension clause (regarding habeas rights) and the U.S. Suipreme Court ruling in Boumediene v Bush 2008 where prisoners at Guantanemo Bay were allowed to have a non-attorney parent file a habeas petition. I said this twice.

Judge McHale illegally summarily sentenced me (no trial) for 3 counts of contempt of court for questioning him and saying he violated the law, 4 mo, 6 mo and 6 mo consecutive (16 m onths), ordered that I was not too have good time credits and I went to jail. I got out after six mo only because I eventually was able to file some motions stating that it was a violation of law and previous U.S. Supreme Court holdings to sentence someone to jail for more than six months without a trial. The Illinois Appellate Court dismissed my appeal stating that I didn’t pay the fee, despite the fact I was indigent on SSI and disabled and Il Supreme Court rule 298 and US Supreme Court holdings require that indigent criminal defendents have their fees waived, The IL Supreme Court has also denied my indigency petition without explanation violating their owno rule 298. I am in desperate straights having been destroyed by this false incarceration and its consequences.

I am the one that recommended Albukerk to Annabel and she now is mad at Albukerk for reasons I disagree with and trying to represent herself. She has become a bit cold with me to. She is absolutely innocent, yet bites the hand that helps her. SALF got money ($50,000) from the IL Attorney General Madigan’s office, yet has failed to follow up with how it was used by SALF and has failed to prosecute SALF and Spizzirra for fraud. Instead they had their computer consultant analyze Anabel’s computer and now their consultant whose report proves Annabel’s innocence has disappeared.

This is a very big scandal that should be investigated by the FBI and US Attorney, yet they are doing NOTHING so far.

As to the claim breastfeeding is free, which is used time and again by breastfeeding activists (most of whom are lactation consultants trying to make money just like the infant formula companies)- Study after study has shown how women, and particularly women with children, earn less than their male counterparts.

For example the most recent Rippeyoung study, “Is breastfeeding truly free?: The economic consequences of breastfeeding for women.” The study concluded that breastfeeding “can lead to lower earnings in the short-term and may also affect long-term economic prospects by reducing mothers’ prospects for promotions or raises.”

Breastfeeding should always be the goal, but many women in America do not have the economic luxury to stay out of the work force or take more breaks during the work day. Instead of spending resources fighting the infant formula companies- which is a losing battle, we should be fighting for better workplace conditions and family leave. Changes to these policies, more than anything else, would increase the breastfeeding rates and help support all American families.