Frank is out, and unless something magical happens, it would appear that former state rep Rick Winkel is in. Read all about it.
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Congressman Tim Johnson smeared on TMZ
Apparently they don’t dig his look.
Community Forum on new super held tonight at Centennial High
From Unit 4’s Website: Champaign Unit 4 Schools will hold a community forum on Monday, September 12, 2011 at 7 PM at Centennial High School regarding the search for a new Superintendent. The community forum …
Scoutmaster with connections to WPGU murdered in Indiana
According to The News-Gazette & AP, Arthur Anderson, a Scoutmaster who helped found WPGU, was murdered for seemingly no reason in Bunker Hill, Indianapolis on Sunday. Here’s the lede. Read the rest here. As a …
State panel implicates Paxton B&B for anti-gay policy
From HuffPo: An Illinois state panel says it has found “substantial evidence” that two businesses discriminated against a gay couple looking for a venue for their civil union ceremony. Mark and Todd Wathen, like many …
IBM cuts ties with NCSA’s Blue Waters
Effective August 6, 2011, IBM terminated its contract with the University of Illinois to provide the supercomputer for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications’ Blue Waters project. Here’s NCSA’s side of things. Here’s another perspective.
Call him Bob, and call him often
Get to know Champaign Unit 4’s temporary superintendent, Bob Malito.
LeShoure tears Achilles, will sit out the season
Sad news. Hopefully he can bounce back. Here’s the scoop, from the Washington Post.
Transparent evil vs. opaque stupidity: reflections on Johnson’s Debt Ceiling vote
In today’s News-Gazette, Tim Johson said the following in defense of his choice not to vote for the debt deal that passed today with a bi-partisan vote of 74-26: The legislation falls far short of …
Common Ground reaches goal with a month to spare
The N-G has the story here. Congrats to them. Lord knows that fundraising ain’t easy.