By: Diane Benjamin Bonner is the Heyworth teacher who was forced to resign after making porn available to her students. A friend sent me an op-ed that featured Bonner – see page 2: https://www.boonecountyjournal.com/_files/ugd/66b509_f7f6cd1c0dc6466fb922fca60c45ba81.pdf The writer found it ironic that she was forced to resign because of the materials she made available to students while […]
Chicago and downstate pols having been fighting over state money ever since the Windy City rose from the swamps along Lake Michigan. So regional funding squabbles are nothing new in the Illinois General Assembly. But to hear House Speaker Mike Madigan talk, one might think a bunch of downstate yokels are chowing down on feast […]
That’s what kept running through my mind this past week as I listened to politicians, union leaders and government employees talk about the state’s pension woes. None of the plans Illinois lawmakers are considering will go anywhere near solving the state’s long-term pension crisis. And yet even the most modest proposals have government workers angry. […]
