Some of us were looking forward to the LAST one! Argonne National Laboratory notes that December 20 was the 40th anniversary of the first illumination of light bulbs by nuclear-generated electricity. “In honor of the anniversary, one of those bulbs was re-lit with electricity from an advanced reactor designed by Argonne for the 21st century.”
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“Citizens for a Better Environment has charged that the [proposed] incinerator [in south suburban Robbins] has accumulated $190 million in subsidies awarded by the state–nearly 20 times the money Illinois has put into recycling,” writes Liane Clorfene Casten in Chicago Enterprise (January). The incinerator “will receive the subsidies through tax-free bonds, property tax breaks and the law that requires Edison to payÉ [higher than wholesale prices] for the electricity the plant produces. The state also will give long-term interest-free loans worth over $25 million to the developers.”
Gee, could you give out the addresses of these firms? According to Boulevard Bancorp’s November survey of 70 CEOs of small and medium-size Chicago-area businesses, 19 percent described the local selection of office workers and managers as “small,” and 37 percent said the supply of unskilled labor was “small.”
“He has been gone almost as long as he was mayor, Richie has had a puppet council longer than he had 25 who would listen to him. Yet, discussion of City government still circulates around what Harold got us that we lost–a chance at Com-Ed, what he got us that we kept– actual debate on the City budget, and what he got us which is still in jeopardy–an Asian voice in City Hall” (Network 48 News, December).
