* Editorial: Taxpayers being robbed by vacant LDC site
* Guv signs bills targeting “wannabe†Irish judges: Hoping to stop lawyers from adopting Irish names to run for judge, Gov. Blagojevich has signed a bill requiring candidates who have changed their names within three years before running to have a “formerly known as” under their name.
* Editorial: Lend more support to ID theft victims
* Final certified Chicago election ballot
* City ward supervisor kept Land Rover in city garage
* Daley calls shakedown lawsuit just election-year politics
* More demands for Stroger cut more of his own budget fat:
And one commissioner said board members deserve more than what they’re getting to run their offices and shouldn’t have to cut their staff at all.
“You explain that to the doctors and nurses you’re going to lay off,” said Commissioner John Daley, referring to cuts that have been proposed to fill a $500 million budget deficit.
* IL National Guard among nation’s worst in inventory for equipment
* Aldermanic free-for-all in 2nd ward
* Peotone residents airport expansion Bill of Rights: “I wish this wasn’t needed,” said Dugan, who called herself an airport proponent. “There have been a lot of problems with how the state has handled things.”
* Center for Tax & Budget Accountability claims state owes Cook Co. $243 million in Medicaid
* Sun-Times Editorial:
Time to get the state code on the right side of the law: The Criminal Law Edit, Alignment and Reform Commission, led by former Gov. James Thompson and former Appellate Court Justice Gino DiVito, spent 18 months carrying out the mission described by its name. The group has presented a plan to streamline the code, cut redundancies and inconsistencies, drop unconstitutional provisions and end the confusion that, as DiVito put it, “has led to lengthy and expensive disputes, retrials and delays.”
* Daley refuses to fire “cooperative†official; it would hint at retaliation
* Tribune Editorial: Coming up short…on education funding
* At fatal Riverside teen-crash site, Sandoval backs stronger driving law
* Local officials discourage Dupage Co. sales tax vote
* Carol Marin: Who can fix the County Dems?