So that’s how the pros do it! Mercantile Exchange futures trader and after-hours chef Robert J. Prosi, on his Big Boss Bar-B-Q Sauce: “I knew Big Boss was destined for success when my 11th batch came out perfectly because 11 is my lucky trading number as well.”
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Where are the machines to photograph the license plates of the scofflaws who run the tollways? Retired state auditor Robert Cronson in Illinois Tax Facts (June): “A 1990 auditor general’s audit reported that the Toll Road charged tolls exceeding those authorized by its enabling act, which permitted use of the ‘lowest possible’ tolls to pay for highway reconstruction. The toll charges had created a $242 million surplus which the Toll Road used to begin construction of a new highway. The Toll Road contended that: (1) the requirement of the lowest possible rate meant the lowest reasonable rate, as determined by the Toll Road, and (2) when the law said ‘reconstruction,’ it meant ‘construction.’ The matter now awaits the outcome of a lawsuit filed by toll road users who are seeking to recover the surplus previously accumulated by the authority. In 1991, while this lawsuit was pending, the General Assembly enacted a law stating that the 1984 law that authorized ‘reconstruction’ meant ‘construction.’”
Chicago radio stations with “no public affairs programming whatsoever,” according to Active Voice (Summer), a publication of the Community Media Workshop: WAIT (850 AM), WJPC (950 AM, 106.3 FM), WWBZ (103.5 FM), and WUSN (99.5 FM).
