Great niece. I know her grandmother well. Nice going, Sarah.
Extraordinary Teen Awards 2015
Sarah Bowman Miller
George Mason High School
Sarah Bowman Miller jumped in the water and discovered her calling at 13. That’s when she started teaching children with special needs to swim as a volunteer with Arlington’s Adapted Aquatics Program (AAP) at the Yorktown High School pool. . . .
Love that girl.
Picking up on the town hall gathering at the Oak Park Library in mid-July: Having earnestly alleged that the state budget process was “really, really, really critical” and urged her listeners to have a look at the budget itself via “the new technology of today” on the state’s web site, State Rep. Lilly continued in an earnest, enthusiastic vein.
An audience member asked if a rise in property tax rates was to be expected. A “really, really good” question, she offered, adding that she herself had asked it in a legislative committee meeting in Springfield.
But really good question or not, she instead addressed the related but separate issue of allocating state funds for public schooling. “No way is education to be funded equitably across the state,” she said, meaning shouldn’t or won’t? The “equitably” called up the haves-vs.-have-not state funding of public schools? So “it won’t happen…
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A few weeks after Carleton and Business-Civic Council, the senator faced citizens at the Oak Park Library in a town hall gathering of his scheduling, accompanied by one of Oak Park’s two state representatives, Camille Lilly.
The audience was largely but not entirely true-blue supporters of Democrat programs, about a quarter of them government-employment retirees (they raised hands at the senator’s request), with heavy personal stake in pension fund solvency.
Lilly deserves some explanation. . . . .
Abp. Cupich to Offer Mass for Leftist Catholic Event.
RIVER FOREST, Ill., June 16, 2015 (ChurchMilitant.com) – Archbishop Blase Cupich of the Chicago archdiocese will be participating at an event for Catholic dissenters.
The event, called “New Faces, New Voices, New Ways of Being Church,” will take place October 24 at Dominican University, and includes a line-up of dissenting Catholics who support gay “marriage” and women’s ordination, among other causes.
What if he smilingly jousts with these invitees, asking important questions of them, leaving no doubt as to where he stands?
Or what if he makes it another step in the ongoing march toward popularity?
. . . if he’s canonized, won’t be their patron saint either, to go by his coming letter to the world, where:
He writes that there is an “urgent and compelling” need for policies that reduce carbon emissions, among other ways, by “replacing fossil fuels and developing sources of renewable energy.”
You know, like the pope of Holy Communion, of peace, that sort of thing.
Well look, even pontiffs have to lie in the beds they make.
Newsalert: Chicago to Borrow $1. 1 Billion Dollars: William Daley Jr. to Make 2.64 from Underwriting Fee
Chicago being part of Illinois (I think that’s how it works), we might consider what a jungle it is in here — as if we didn’t know — in view of this item:There’s more [to the story of the city’s borrowing another billion-plus to stay afloat]:
The senior managing underwriter on the $1.1 billion borrowing with an estimated $2.64 million in fees is Morgan Stanley. The company’s affidavit was signed by William Daley Jr., . . . .
Italian magazine publishes leaked version of pope’s eco-encyclical | Crux.
A Vatican official, speaking to Bloomberg News on Monday, called publishing the document before Thursday a “heinous act,” and various clergy urged media organizations to respect the official embargo date.
That’s a bit much. If he were redefining the Trinity and they beat the embargo, it would be one thing. But the endorsement of man-made global warming by a chemistry major? Please.
It is 2015, and the Illinois whose fiscal worries were exaggerated by Republicans in 2013, as the Oak Park senator said, is in trouble that even he must recognize.
It’s this first-term governor whom he cannot understand and who doesn’t seem to give a hang, which makes him a very bad enemy to have to face.
Reuters reports the latest from Governor Rookie, that he has ruled out “a short-term spending plan to keep the state operating beyond the July 1 start of fiscal 2016 if there is no deal over a full-year budget.”
What the . . . ? No short-term budget? . . . .
Read the rest here: Illinois blues: Oak Park senator can’t figure Governor Rookie, who won’t play ball.
The Donald of Oak Park, its senator in Springfield, where he’s high in the ranks of the Ruling Party, smooth-as-silk boss of Oak Park’s Democratic Party organization, took to the podium at Oak Park’s Carleton Hotel on a glorious day in late June of 2013 for his annual report to the Business and Civic Council.
It was time to explain things to bankers, business owners and operators, and other issues-aware citizen consumers and taxpayers with skin in the game to varying degrees and/or psychic income from allegedly progressive political victories and enactments.
The state was in a state of turmoil, confusion, and all-around hyperactivity. The two legislative chambers were at odds over a pension solution. The governor, a one-time gadfly with Oak Park roots, was soon to cut off legislators’ pay checks to punish them for inactivity.
For the Donald, however, it was what-me-worry time. . . . . Read the rest
Blithe Spirit 