Illinois Graduated Income Tax – The Fair Tax – What It Does and Does Not Do If you’re going to be informed, then let me suggest that you be informed. Purely and simply, a change in Illinois tax law to a graduated income tax from a flat income tax is Continue Reading
Cook County Judicial Evaluations – 2020 General Election, November 3, 2020
UPDATE TO POSTOctober 2, 2020 Judge running for retention Mauricio Araujo has resigned from the bench as of Monday, October 5, 2020 and will not be seeking retention. His name remains on the ballot. We suggest that you leave that vote box BLANK. SECOND UPDATE TO POSTOctober 13, 2020 The Continue Reading
Thoughts on some video series: “Dark”
I’ve finished all three seasons. It’s a German Netflix series dubbed in English. The voice-dubbers have done a fine job, by the way. The series, in the end, folds in on itself, undoing what it has wrought from the beginning. The story is about time and the dire consequences of Continue Reading
Cook County Judicial Candidate Evaluations – 2020 Primary
EVALUATIONS OF JUDICIAL CANDIDATESALLIANCE OF BAR ASSOCIATIONS FOR JUDICIAL SCREENING 2020 – PRIMARY ELECTION – 2020Cook County It’s that time again. While so many people are concentrating on the Presidential Primary, we’re here to remind you that the March 17 election goes far beyond voting for a presidential candidate. The Continue Reading
An Open Letter to All Democratic Presidential Candidates
Here’s the deal. Your job is to roundly defeat the current occupant of the Oval Office. Right now, that’s all it is. If you’re talking about anything else, you’re wasting your time and my time. If you haven’t calculated what making him go away is going to take, start calculating Continue Reading
Judicial Elections (and Other Elections) – Cook County – March 17, 2020
We all know that the Illinois Presidential Primary Election will occur on March 17. It is, however, not just a Presidential Primary. The election goes far beyond voting for a party’s Presidential candidate. This blog posting provides you with information on what you’ll be voting for overall and on what Continue Reading
A Short Disquisition on I.T. “Help”
It’s good to see that some things don’t change. Throughout my work activity in Information Technology I worked with many company user communities whose IT “support” was too often characterized by stone-eared listening. A user team would identify a tech problem. The IT staff then would respond, too often, in Continue Reading
A Musical Interlude: The Chicago Symphony plays Liszt, Wagner and Brahms/Schoenberg
Yes, this blog is about lots of different things. Sometimes it will be about music, usually a review of a concert or other musical event. This one is about the Thursday, June 6, 2019 Chicago Symphony concert at Orchestra Hall. Last night at the Chicago Symphony concert we saw guest Continue Reading
The “Plague” at the Chicago 1933 Century of Progress
The 1893 the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago had its serial killer, H.H. Holmes, made famous as “The Devil in the White City.” The actual extent of Holmes’s crime spree is probably far smaller than the legend and the book suggest, but popular imagination keeps the legend alive. Most people Continue Reading
The Eagle Fountains: Where Have They Been?
This entry is about eagle fountains, yes. It’s also about the restoration of art objects and even of buildings. Frederick Cleveland Hibbard created two fountains that, when in place, face each other on either side of East Congress Parkway at Michigan Avenue. Depictions of eagles that have successfully fished, they Continue Reading