Hundreds of Google employees marched out of the tech giant’s West Loop office Thursday morning, joining the worldwide protest of Google workers outraged by the company’s lenient treatment of executives accused of sexual misconduct.
“Most of my friends are leaving or they are redomiciling. When I mean most, it’s not 90% but it’s over 80%. Most of my friends are encouraging their children to go to school out of state and not take jobs back in Chicago.”
Comment: No, says the author of a new book, but ranked-choice, multi-member districts is an interesting idea.
Comment: Just what Illinois needs — a Dem crony capitalist friend-of-Rahm owning the Chicago Tribune
We reported this two months ago.
“Pritzker is selling snake oil. It’s lucky for him that voters love snake oil.”
The largest state-funded pension system said Wednesday it will need a 10 percent increase in its state contribution in next year’s budget.
The Teachers’ Retirement System said the state will have to kick in more than $4.8 billion for the next budget that will start July 1, 2019. That’s an increase of about $400 million from the current budget
Au revoir.
“This budget continues to incorporate many of prudent financial practices prioritized by Mayor Emanuel and the City Council in recent years,” said Civic Federation President Laurence Msall. “However, there remains an enormous elephant in the room—a projected doubling in required pension contributions over the next five years—that the next administration and City Council must tackle.”
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