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Thursday, April 17, 2014

4-17-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:



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Chris Christie’s pension theft in New Jersey. Nation-wide pension theft needs a nation-wide response.
Some of my friends from elsewhere around the country try to tell me that the pension theft that is going on in Illinois is a local issue. It’s not. The stealing of public employee pensions is a national effort calling for a national response. Each state and municipality may have it’s own local characteristics. In New Jersey, Governor Chris Christie is diverting state pension funds to his politica


GTCR is Rauner’s Baine Capital. So Squeezy gives him a state contract. Shaking up Springfield?
The Better Government Association is reporting this morning: Bruce Rauner, the Republican challenger for governor, stands to profit from a lucrative state contract awarded last year by the administration of his opponent on the November ballot, Gov. Pat Quinn, records show. Rauner formerly headed GTCR LLC, a Chicago private equity firm in which he still holds a stake as an investor. In any other s


4-16-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Awareness.Banners went up and banners came down. Some were professionally printed. Some were hand-made by students on long white sheets of butcher paper. April was a busy month for banners. Shoe-horned in around Spring Break was Poetry Appreciation month and Autism Awareness month. This is about Autis