POWIP Piece of Work In Progress – Former Abode of Dan Collins

Chicago News Update 6Mar2011

No, it's not all about pensions with me, all the time. Other stuff happens.

So, there have been elections in Chicago and Cook County recently. Some pols lost their positions. What do they do now that they're off the gravy train?

What do you mean off the gravy train?

Like thousands of Illinoisans who have lost their jobs, former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has applied for unemployment benefits.

But newly minted Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s administration officially “protested” the claim with the state’s unemployment agency.

“. . . Former Board President Todd Stroger did submit an application for unemployment,” said a source in the Preckwinkle administration who is familiar with the application. “That application was protested because, as a former elected official, he is ineligible.”
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It would be different if he were a regular county employee or worked in the private sector. If he could prove his case — that, say, the voters didn’t fire him for cause but that he lost his job through no fault of his own — he might qualify for unemployment, according to state law.

Homicide case involving Daley nephew closed without charges. Those Daleys have to be good Catholics - there's so many of them. And hey, closing a case just in time for the Lenten season. Maybe someone can atone for something. Just a thought.

Black woman took black votes for granted, white man didn't. White man won. I'm not sure if she had spent more time campaigning amongst black Chicagoans that she would have done better, though.

Flash mobs mean something different on the Magnificent Mile. Come on, at least they could've thrown in a musical number while creating a distraction.

One pension-related story: a particularly ignorant chief financial officer takes his seat. And yes, a Daley nephew is involved. Not many good choices for this guy -- either admit to total cluelessness or corruption. That's generally the choice in Illinois.

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Meep is a member of the Irish Catholic mafia, having a suspiciously high number of green-eyed, red-haired friends. While she doesn’t have red hair herself [except when she goes into the sun (rare for any vampire)], she does have green eyes. She’s a raving Papist and is a life actuary on the side [i.e., she counts dead people]. An amateur pain-in-the-ass [willing to go pro!], she likes covering retirement, mortality, math, and education issues.

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