Monday, November 30, 2009.
[...]edited by: Douglas Welch,
Illinois Editor
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If the service you provide is essentially a commodity, how do you promote your value proposition?
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My name is Brenda Employer and I own a small business that currently employs 20 people.
My business is such that I can setup shop pretty much anywhere. We've launched successfully, but now I'm looking for a place to call home for the long-term.
We've had a breakthough in the company and' [...]
What a beautiful day to work outside! It seems like it had been raining 40 work days and 40 nights until this break in good weather. That certainly hurts construction progress.
Now that we have some good weather, we should be heading down the final stretch and completing the long-awaited sidewalk [...]
This ordinance was so bad as drafted, that it apparently needed a second look:
November 19 Commentary in News Gazette.
Ideally, Prussing would have the people most able to help her craft a good ordinance working with her to solve the problem, instead of spending their time and energy having to fight her unreasonable notion of good [...]
I've been taken back the story coming out Chicago about the McCormick Place losing business. Intitially, I didn't think to take a second look.
Link 1:ABC News Story that has some interesting analysis both in the video footage and supporting written analysis/links.
One at the recently departed Health Care Information [...]
The Graduate Employee Organization (GEO) is on strike at UI. The N-G has a story at [www.news-gazette.com] . The GEO's website with their perspective is at [www.uigeo.org] . Out-of-state tuition waivers are a big issue, and there may also be a possibility of raising the minimum assistantship necessary' [...]
Impressed. Kudos to the N-G for the great series of articles on the Research Park.
Jury Still Out on Research Park
How UofI Park Compares with Midwest
I always thought the Research Park was a solid idea but now I have mixed emotions. I liked the [...]
Illinois made another Who's Who list: [www.dailyfinance.com]
"Many of the states, like California, New Jersey and Illinois, have a long history of borrowing to close budget gaps."
I love it when we send professional politicians and professional government types to run state business.
I wonder who Senator Frerichs is going to suggest' [...]
I had a discussion today with someone that claims that a landlord in Urbana cannot ban a guest even if that guest is criminal or engages in criminal or nuisance behavior on their property.
Apparently, when you call the Urbana police, they will tell the individual that they will not enforce [...]
This story on the expected revival of the chronic criminal nuisance ordinance was in yesterday's NG, but I didn't see it until last night. There are two statements in here that are headscratchers - the first is from the Mayor:
"I think the general public understands that there is a' [...]
I recently ate at a restaurant where the tab was $500 for two people. $115/plate + a bottle champagne and other drinks adds up pretty quickly in Chicago. You have to go up to Chicago to waste that kind of money. But why does it have to be that way?! [...]
We are now down to two GOP candidates for Country Board District 1. Per the NG, Gary Maxwell has withdrawn, and endorsed Stephanie Holderfield. She will face Chris Doenitz, the GOP incumbent.
This will be an interesting race, and could come down to door-to-door, get out the vote, politics.
This weekend I enjoyed unseasonably warm and beautiful weather.
The Illini won.
Today I recieved the below email from a Chamber friend.
I called this friend and found out that the Chamber has been working proactively to fight another silly Urbana idea. I learned they even had all the city council members to [...]
Palazzolo indicted:
The former executive director of the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District has been indicted by a Champaign County grand jury on seven felony counts stemming from his behavior while in office in 2006 and 2007.
State's Attorney Julia Rietz was attending a conference Friday and could not be reached for [...]
The Federal Lord Judge has finally signed off on the negotiated end to the Consent Decree.
The Champaign school district’s consent decree case is officially over.
Federal District Court Judge Joe Billy McDade entered an order Wednesday afternoon approving the proposed settlement agreement reached by the school district and the [...]
There is water at the bottom of the ocean:
A rural Paris woman who has been an assistant to Gov. Pat Quinn for six years has suddenly resigned from her position as Quinn's deputy chief of staff.
Carolyn Brown Hodge, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, resigned from the governor's staff Friday [...]
I was going to do a filing roundup, but Tom Kacich already did. Most notable is that no Republican filed to run against Sen. Mike Frerichs in the 52nd District.
Although Danville Republican Al Reynolds said last month that he intended to run for the 52nd District state Senate seat, [...]
The NG asked many of the questions that commenters on here were asking last week:
The details – such as how long payments in lieu of taxes would continue – haven't been determined. But Carle has a long track record of doing right by the community, Leonard and Wellman said.
"We' [...]
This will be our area's first contested open House seat since the 2001 redistricting.
Veteran Danville Alderman Michael Puhr on Friday filed petitions to run as a Democrat for state representative in the 104th House District....
Puhr, 54, has been an alderman since 2001. He ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 2003. [...]
Monday, November 2, 2009.
Today is the last day to file nominating petitions for the February 2, 2010 Primary Election.
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