Sunday, March 7, 2010

Thursday, March 4, 2010

When deeds are in the darkness

We're closely following the story of alleged mortgage fraudster John
Hemphill,who supposedly posed as a property owner...

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Illinois giveth, and already tryeth to taketh away

Illinois signed into law new, seemingly positive, revisions to its Freedom of Information Act last year. They became effective on Jan. 1, 2010.

Color us unsurprised that state legislators are already trying to undo
segments of FOIA. A misled representative from Aurora, Ill. (Wayne's World!) has proposed a bill that would exempt the performance reviews of police, firemen, public school teachers, principals, and superintendents from FOIA, effectively protecting our worst public employees from any taxpayer scrutiny.

Here's a better idea: let's take them and publicize them more than ever. These people are paid with our tax dollars, and most of them even have contracts that make it virtually impossible for them to lose their jobs. Somebody should collect the performance reviews for their teachers and cross post them on web sites like Fundrace.org and BlockShopper.com-- wouldn't it be nice to see which politicians our worst public employees support? Or how many hundreds of thousands of dollars they spent on their homes?