Meter Deal Gets Worse
- Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Monday he’s trying to make “a little lemonade out of a big lemon” by settling disputed reimbursement claims from the company leasing Chicago parking meters in a way he claims would save taxpayers well over $1 billion over the next 71 years.
But, aldermen who must approve the changes say Emanuel may have made a lemon of a deal even more sour — by swapping three extra hours of paid parking in River North and one extra hour elsewhere for free neighborhood parking on Sundays.
The trade-off is part of a broader agreement that calls for the city to pay Chicago Parking Meters LLC $63.8 million to settle years of disputed claims stemming from parking spaces taken out of service because of construction, special events and parking changes and an arbitrator’s ruling on compensation tied to free parking provided to motorists with disabled placards.
The Sun Times quotes Rahm as "...would save taxpayers..."
Channel 7 comes closer to the truth when they publish "...could save...."
And remember - this supposed "savings" is measured over 71 years - when most of our readers will be long dead and buried.
And Rahm will follow Shortshanks's lead of trumpeting this "savings" into another fantasy budget that will rely entirely on "estimations," and "projections," and other such bullshit as they rob the corpse of a bankrupt city.
Channel 7 comes closer to the truth when they publish "...could save...."
And remember - this supposed "savings" is measured over 71 years - when most of our readers will be long dead and buried.
And Rahm will follow Shortshanks's lead of trumpeting this "savings" into another fantasy budget that will rely entirely on "estimations," and "projections," and other such bullshit as they rob the corpse of a bankrupt city.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
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EXACTLY!
Oh and..
O'Hare Ranks Worst U.S. Airport In On-Time Ratings
.... Your chances of having your flight canceled at O'Hare Airport are much greater. O'Hare ranked worst among the nation's airports in on-time flight arrivals, with only 66.57 percent of flights departing the airport on time last month
WE"RE NUMBER ONE -- WE"RE NUMBER ONE!!!
Also...
2 States Where Unemployment Is Growing and 1 With Plenty of Jobs
Guess what?
Biggest losers
Illinois saw the biggest year-over-year jump in unemployment in the U.S. last month. At 9.5%, the Illinois unemployment rate is at a level last seen in 2011. Even worse, the labor force shrank last month, suggesting that tens of thousands of people gave up looking for work. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has risen by nearly a full percentage point since December. Moreover, things may not get better anytime soon; earlier this month, Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT ) announced that it would permanently lay off 460 workers in the state due to falling demand for mining equipment.
Many Illinois residents worry that the state is losing its competitiveness compared to neighbors like Indiana and Wisconsin because of higher taxes, a growing public-debt burden, and a severely underfunded pension fund. Caterpillar executives have threatened to move jobs out of Illinois because of rising tax rates. This is a significant threat, because the company is one of Illinois' largest private employers, with about 23,000 workers in the state
NOTE: Only the state of Nevada's unemployment rate is higher than Illinois. So we're number two but we are not going to take that lying down as you can see above. Not only did we lead the nation in jobs lost last month the workers are dropping out of the workforce!
But hey WE'RE STILL NUMBER ONE HERE - WORLD-CLASS BABY!
Chicago, Los Angeles, New York Prosecuted Fewest Federal Gun Crimes
The districts that contain Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City ranked last in terms of federal gun law enforcement in 2012, according to a new report from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which tracks federal data.
Federal gun crimes include illegal possession of a firearm in a school zone, illegal sale of a firearm to a juvenile, felon, or drug addict, and illegal transport of a firearm across state lines. In Chicago, the majority of gun charges last year were for firearms violations.
The districts of Eastern New York, Central California, and Northern Illinois ranked 88th, 89th and 90th, respectively, out of 90 districts, in prosecutions of federal weapons crimes per capita last year, but it wasn't always this way. All three districts fell lower on the list than they had been in years past. In 2010, for example, Chicago was 78th in federal weapons prosecutions.
These cities also have some of the nation's most restrictive gun laws, as well as the most active mayors in championing gun control. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa are all members of the national Mayors Against Illegal Guns campaign.
Are they really against guns? Why doesn't it show up in the numbers?
World-Class!
Let's refer back to an old article in the Reader, showing the chronology of the parking meter deal (and others) Daley brokered.
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/features-cover-april-9-2009/Content?oid=1098561
Since we supposedly can't break this deal, how about going after the major players who CONSPIRED TO DEFRAUD the citizens of Chicago by forcing this deal through in less than three days.
Funny how Cardenas is now running around blaming 'them' for passing the parking meter deal when he's one of the aldermen who conveniently failed to show up on meter deal voting day.
It's not worse...don't want to pay the higher rates to park downtown on the weekends? Don't drive. Use public trans, or better yet, drive to the burbs, where free parking exists at most suburban attractions. I'm glad the neighborhood parking will be free on Sundays.
My girlfriend and I frequently catch an express bus or train to the loop, and will usually cab it back after 10pm. Best thing going, and no DUI worries, or fears of having a drunken fool drive into us coming from the wrong direction.
All he needs is a mask and a gun!
How to fix the meter deal.
Don't enforce the parking meter violations. That's all.
We ignore the laws on illegal immigrants so it wouldn't be the first time.
We ignore the banking frauds. The DOJ is scared to death that if they prosecute a banker the banks will crash the global economy. So we give into the terrorist.
Robin Manuel will be remembered for taking from the poor and middle class and giving it to the rich and himself!
Is there any difference with Richard M.?
Richard J. took with both hands but one for him and one for us?
And not one mention of how Daley fucked everyone in Chicago with this rotton deal. How many realize that the bottom feeder law firm that now "employs" Daley is the firm that engineered the contract that seems to have several "secret" partners. Asshole Daley should be in front of the Federal Grand jury and not in China pretending to be a big shot and even pretending to be sane.
This city is run by thieves ...
We are screwed. Our mayor is flushing this city down the toilet.
Bottom line is buy stock in Morgan Stanley ticker symbol MS. This is a cash cow for them. Theyre trading at just over $22 a share, by years end they should be close to $28. If you cant beat them join them.
The former mayor stole from the people of Chicago.
It's that simple.
chicago liberal democrat voters are a cancer to society and stupid. proud to be conservative.
Great! Nice work Rahm.
Along with grateful, we'll be generous as well.
Just dump 1/2 a billion into our pension fund of all that money you saved and then I'll say, "Thank You."
Until then, grab the Windex, the smoke has covered the mirrors.
Blah blah blah blah blah........ Same old Shitcago Bullshit corrupt politics. You city taxpayers are such fools.
Just before retirement I parked my "unmarked" squad care near a 019th Dist. restaurant. The owner came running out and pleaded with me not to give so many tickets to his customers, and he was holding a couple of the citations in his hand. I explained that those tickets were being issued by the civilians not us. Last week I was in the area and the restaurant was out of business. I also noticed that there are a lot of parking spaces in places that used to be packed with vehicles. This isn't rocket science, people are abandoning the City because a visit that has an additional $50 or $100 parking ticket will spoil any meal! And unless the business has their own parking lot, you run the risk of a ticket in any of our entertainment areas. Mark my words, stats will bear me out, these meters are costing City business.
rahm is in negotiations to sell lake michigan to saudi arabia--- the deal calls for no toilet flushing or tooth brushing on sundays--- remember, it's about the children and we all have to sacrifice....
To the humps who are affected by the meter deal and bitching and moaning I say go fuck yourself.
Assholes like Daley and his Alderman were routinely voted in year after year. Daley put on a dress and acted like Nancy Pelosi and told these fucking lemmings to approve the deal. My 8 year old would have said hell no by the time he got to page 4.
Not these humps. They were promised shit from Daley and probably got it. Sold their souls by agreeing to a deal that none of them read. (Obamacare!).
It's good to know they were subsequently run out of office. Oh? They weren't were they.
Welcome to Chicago
Anonymous said...
Let's refer back to an old article in the Reader, showing the chronology of the parking meter deal (and others) Daley brokered.
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/features-cover-april-9-2009/Content?oid=1098561
Since we supposedly can't break this deal, how about going after the major players who CONSPIRED TO DEFRAUD the citizens of Chicago by forcing this deal through in less than three days.
4/30/2013 12:42:00 AM
Probably get the whole deal thrown out as a RICO deal...???
The least Tiny Dancer could do is be upfront about it and tell it like it is. "It is for the children"!!
My girlfriend and I frequently catch an express bus or train to the loop, and will usually cab it back after 10pm. Best thing going, and no DUI worries, or fears of having a drunken fool drive into us coming from the wrong direction.
4/30/2013 12:48:00 AM
Drunken fools don't run into cabs?You better give the memo to the drunken fools. And why go to the loop? There are plenty of nicer, safer and more convenient locations outside of that unsafe environment.
And not one mention of how Daley fucked everyone in Chicago with this rotton deal. How many realize that the bottom feeder law firm that now "employs" Daley is the firm that engineered the contract that seems to have several "secret" partners. Asshole Daley should be in front of the Federal Grand jury and not in China pretending to be a big shot and even pretending to be sane.
4/30/2013 01:06:00 AM
But the architect of the parking meter deal was Paul Volpe. He did more to stick it to the citizenery than the shanks. He convinced the dim-witted shortshanks that it was a good deal. That's why the shanks fired him. Dumb and Dumber got us all screwed.
Rahm never feeds a meter. Why should he care?
Wait a second! How is it that any street that is a little wider is being converted to vertical parking, thereby doubling the number of metered spaces, but we are still paying for some spaces being taken out of service. Shouldn't it be a wash? Check out Des Plaines street Harrison to Roosevelt as an example. This was just recently converted.
Yeah and think about how one can use inflation projections in order to produce a more impressive dollar savings number -- like by using 2084 dollars adjusted for a certain inflation rate.
For example is we were to go back 71 years and had a 71 year project that was going to save us $100,000 in 1943 dollars, we could also claim that it would save us $1,428,055.21 in 2013 dollars. That's the same amount.
That's what you would need to buy the same goods or services in 2013 as in 1943 after accounting for inflation according the BLS inflation calc.
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=100%2C000.00&year1=1942&year2=2013
So just drop the year off and say we'll save us $1.4 million dollars and watch peoples jaws drop. It's so-so impressive!
Think about it. It's no-where close.
Illinois Propaganda.
Mar 12, 2012
High-Tech Illinois Company Looks to Bridge Workers' 'Skills Gap'
RAHM EMANUEL (D), mayor of Chicago: You have people looking for jobs. You have employers looking for skilled workers. And the only thing that can link them up is the educational system.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june12/skillsgap_03-27.html
Fast forward to 2013..
There Is No Shortage of Tech Workers
"For every two students that U.S. colleges graduate with STEM degrees, only one is hired into a STEM job."
"In computer and information science and in engineering, U.S. colleges graduate 50 percent more students than are hired into those fields each year; of the computer science graduates not entering the IT workforce, 32 percent say it is because IT jobs are unavailable, and 53 percent say they found better job opportunities outside of IT occupations. These responses suggest that the supply of graduates is substantially larger than the demand for them in industry."
"Over the past decade IT employment has gradually increased, but it only recovered to its 2000–2001 peak level by the end of the decade."
"Wages have remained flat, with real wages hovering around their late 1990s levels."
The important policy implication is that the massive push for increasing visas for high tech workers is misconceived. We do not have a worker shortage at all.
What's more, the push for more foreign workers might be counterproductive, since it likely result in fewer Americans seeking training and jobs in technology.
"Immigration policies that facilitate large flows of guestworkers will supply labor at wages that are too low to induce significant increases in supply from the domestic workforce," the study said.
It's important to note that the Economic Policy Institute is a left-leaning think tank. Its conclusions cannot be chalked up to a bias against immigration.
So why do we hear so much about a shortage of tech workers? Simple: Tech employers want wages to fall.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100674327?__source=yahoo|related|story|text|&par=yahoo
A little over a year ago Rahm boasted that AAR corp was looking for welders and mechanics and they had 600 open positions for people RIGHT NOW!!!
Oooooo.. so show us the 600 people that were hired out of your community college program to fixed this so-called skill shortage mayor. And don't forget to include the starting wage effects now and projected five to ten years out.
We have, according to the BLS unemployment reports about 1.8 million four year degreed graduates out of work and it's been publihed that about 58% of recent grads are unemployed or not working within the field that they have been trained for.
We are also about to pump out another 1.8 million four year college degree holders in just a few short months.
Rahm I'm calling BULLSHIT on you and your corporate friends skill shortages. Prove me wrong. Show us all the 600 welders and machanics that were immediately hired because your friends had all these positions "open right now that we can't fill"
BULLSHIT!!!
Oh look this just in...
The Chicago Purchasing Managers reported April's Chicago Business Barometer fell 3.4 to 49.0, a 3-1/2 year low.
https://www.ism-chicago.org/chapters/ism-ismchicago/files/ChicagoPMI-13-04.pdf
They claim they can't break this contract just watch how quick they break the social contract of our pensions and healthcare though.
and now onto the next city asset to sell off -- line the pockets of the clouted ones..
...And, though neither Mr. Emanuel nor city financial officials were immediately available to take questions, I have to think the deal was struck with an eye toward helping clear the way for a possible privatization of Midway Airport, a matter that is coming very, very close to being done by the Emanuel administration.
Read more:
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20130429/BLOGS02/130429788/emanuel-revises-chicago-parking-meter-deal-but-how-good-is-it-now#ixzz2RyLdAUNv
...Even more than Mayor Daley before him, Mayor Emanuel has the ability to bury opponents under piles of checks from the wealthy and well connected. Potential rivals across the nation took note when he raised $14 million in about four and a half months leading up to his 2011 mayoral election romp. If anything's changed since then, it's only that he's added a second prolific campaign committee and can host meetings with friends, donors, and favor seekers right in City Hall.
Perhaps there's no better example of the advantage of incumbency than how players involved in the city's despised parking meter privatization deal have ended up enhancing Emanuel's campaign funds.
Emanuel has repeatedly vowed to fight the deal, going so far as to contest bills submitted by the firm that controls the street parking system. More quietly, though, he deployed city attorneys to help Chicago Parking Meters LLC fend off a challenge to the deal in court. And they were successful. Last November a judge dismissed the challenge, ruling that the deal may be lousy but can't be considered illegal as long as the city claimed to be benefiting from it.
Two months later, Winston & Strawn, the high-powered firm that represents Chicago Parking Meters, held a reception for Emanuel that yielded at least $22,500 for his campaign coffers, according to state records.
That's a good chunk of change in the neighborhoods where the mayor is planning to close schools. But it barely ranks the firm in the top echelon of Emanuel donors. Since he was sworn in, 15 other firms or households have given more than Winston & Strawn.
Topping the list is another prominent law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, whose partners contributed nearly $109,000 to the mayor, much of it at a December fund-raiser. The city's top lawyer, corporation counsel Steve Patton, was previously a partner at Kirkland.
Nearly as generous were the leaders of Chopper Trading, a financial trading firm whose CEO, Rajiv Fernando, has hosted fund-raisers for Emanuel and President Barack Obama. Chopper employees gave about $108,000.
In fact, lawyers, financial investors, and venture capitalists dominated the list of mayor's biggest donors, just as he's made time in his schedule to meet with them privately. Among the notable contributors:
* Grosvenor Capital Management, a hedge fund whose CEO, Michael Sacks, is an unpaid Emanuel adviser and the appointed head of World Business Chicago, the city's economic development agency ($60,000).
* Lawyers at Jenner & Block, which has done millions of dollars of legal work for the city, much of it related to O'Hare expansion ($30,000).
* Partners at Schiff Hardin LLP, which has been paid millions of dollars to defend police-related lawsuits and work on city bond sales ($25,000).
* A couple of pipe fitters' unions also sent checks. The United Association and Illinois Pipe Trades each donated $50,000 after Emanuel hiked fees to pay for new water and sewer lines.
* Smaller donations were also sent in from employees of the Chicago Cubs, which has been angling for a deal with the city to help fund Wrigley Field renovations; Greenberg Traurig, whose lawyers helped draw up the city's billboard privatization deal; and Katten Muchin, the firm that put together the parking meter deal and now employs former Mayor Daley.
Not surprisingly, there were no checks from teachers' unions.
Add it all up and the mayor is sitting on about $2 million in campaign money—and this is the fund-raising off-season for Emanuel. He can, and will, turn on the spigot whenever he's ready....
http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2013/03/29/with-check-writing-friends-like-mayor-emanuels-who-gives-a-f-about-enemies
Whether you like, hate or tolerate Rahm, he was handed a rotten mess with the parking meters. It is easy enough to blame him for the fiasco but he wasn't even here. Daley was. I wouldn't want to be the mayor after Daley. It seems to me to be a job like the guy following the horses in the parade cleaning up after them. Only this mayor is following the elephants instead of the horses.
The former mayor stole from the people of Chicago.
It's that simple.
4/30/2013 02:11:00 AM
For sure, it is that simple, but the rest of society does not see it or ignores it. The Democratic Party will protect him until he has the grabber and beyond.
Chicago, Los Angeles, New York Prosecuted Fewest Federal Gun Crimes
The districts that contain Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City ranked last in terms of federal gun law enforcement in 2012, according to a new report from Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which tracks federal data.
Federal gun crimes include illegal possession of a firearm in a school zone, illegal sale of a firearm to a juvenile, felon, or drug addict, and illegal transport of a firearm across state lines. In Chicago, the majority of gun charges last year were for firearms violations.
The districts of Eastern New York, Central California, and Northern Illinois ranked 88th, 89th and 90th, respectively, out of 90 districts, in prosecutions of federal weapons crimes per capita last year, but it wasn't always this way. All three districts fell lower on the list than they had been in years past. In 2010, for example, Chicago was 78th in federal weapons prosecutions.
These cities also have some of the nation's most restrictive gun laws, as well as the most active mayors in championing gun control. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa are all members of the national Mayors Against Illegal Guns campaign.
Are they really against guns? Why doesn't it show up in the numbers?
World-Class!
4/30/2013 12:33:00 AM
The only people that would be getting prosecuted would be BLACK!
Can't show that 90% of gun crimes are committed by black criminals and not law abiding citizens.
I would love to watch the LIBERALS defend their racist gun laws. Why are no blacks or major city residents prosecuted and only country folk?
Here is a clue city of Chicago , Start charging the parking company big big money for having there meter/pay box on city property and make them have c city license for every one of them and pas it into law through the city counsel. Come on Chicago wake up put the burden on them.
Anonymous said...
Wait a second! How is it that any street that is a little wider is being converted to vertical parking, thereby doubling the number of metered spaces, but we are still paying for some spaces being taken out of service. Shouldn't it be a wash? Check out Des Plaines street Harrison to Roosevelt as an example. This was just recently converted.
4/30/2013 10:16:00 AM
GREAT plan, putting parking in the middle of the street on DesPlaines, which has a few dozen loft condo buildings on it. We've had so many near-misses with bicyclists flying southbound while we're turning into our driveways and parking lots, it's just a matter of time til one dies.
Thanks, Mr. Mayor, for endangering everyone with this brilliant move. As usual, a move made WITHOUT consulting the people who live here and pay ridiculously high taxes to do so.
Oh, and original poster, vertical parking is two-level parking. We don't have a car-bridge; we have a stupid, dangerous parking design.
Anonymous said...
Whether you like, hate or tolerate Rahm, he was handed a rotten mess with the parking meters. It is easy enough to blame him for the fiasco but he wasn't even here. Daley was. I wouldn't want to be the mayor after Daley. It seems to me to be a job like the guy following the horses in the parade cleaning up after them. Only this mayor is following the elephants instead of the horses.
4/30/2013 03:51:00 PM
Not his fault for the original lease...
But this is Chicago.
How hard to convince a Civil Judge to end the lease and find the city doesn't owe jack to CPM or Morgan Stanley? Or Dissolve the Parking Lot and Skyway leases due to the ineptitude and incompetence of the City Legal team that negotiated them.
Rahm can take some of that money he raised and buy a judge or 3 to get us out of this crap.
Whether you like, hate or tolerate Rahm, he was handed a rotten mess with the parking meters. It is easy enough to blame him for the fiasco but he wasn't even here. Daley was. I wouldn't want to be the mayor after Daley. It seems to me to be a job like the guy following the horses in the parade cleaning up after them. Only this mayor is following the elephants instead of the horses.
4/30/2013 03:51:00 PM
TD 9.5,
Stay off the blog! You are as big of a thief as shortshanks and would have done the same meter deal. You are just pissed that the shanks was here to do it before you became a Chicago resident and ran for mayor.
J-FLED
P.S. Call me. I would like to be Chicago's Chief of Public Safety. Or your elephant trainer. Have Shovel/Will Beg.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Just before retirement I parked my "unmarked" squad care near a 019th Dist. restaurant. The owner came running out and pleaded with me not to give so many tickets to his customers, and he was holding a couple of the citations in his hand. I explained that those tickets were being issued by the civilians not us. Last week I was in the area and the restaurant was out of business. I also noticed that there are a lot of parking spaces in places that used to be packed with vehicles. This isn't rocket science, people are abandoning the City because a visit that has an additional $50 or $100 parking ticket will spoil any meal! And unless the business has their own parking lot, you run the risk of a ticket in any of our entertainment areas. Mark my words, stats will bear me out, these meters are costing City business.
4/30/2013 07:54:00 AM
Exactly!
But King Richie and his court didn't care. They got theirs.
4/30/2013 07:54:00 AM
"people are abandoning the City because a visit that has an additional $50 or $100 parking ticket will spoil any meal! And unless the business has their own parking lot, you run the risk of a ticket in any of our entertainment areas. Mark my words, stats will bear me out, these meters are costing City business."
First off...thank you for serving as a Officer in this city. And Congratz on surviving to retire.
If they are too stupid to pay the Meter...Or they double park/15 ft Hydrant/Bus Stop....that 50 buck or 100 buck ticket is EARNED by the Moron Patron. Not the Business owners fault. Unless the moron business owner is double parking, on a hydrant or in a bus stop with their vehicle "just to make a delivery" because they use their Loading Zones like private parking (300 block of South Halsted for example..).
I know businesses that are putting up signs that say
"The City and LAZ Patrols the Meters between 8am and 9pm. They Ticket the tow zones and the bus stops and the hydrants even if you have your blinkers on. Don't complain to the Business if you get a ticket. Your vehicle is your responsibility."
And they are still getting patrons.
Most of the Jagoffs that go to 019 to eat should stay the hell out of 019 as it is.
Yeah, right. Making lemonade out of some big ass lemons - with NO sugar. Can't you just picture the Rahminator saying "pucker up!"
Hey just think about it. Now the mayor may have some funds which can help shore up the police pension. Genius I say. Thanks for doing the right thing Mr. Mayor.
As all this mayor does is tinker with meters like water,parking,electric,gas anything he can tag an extra dime on for infastructure trust and all bullshit. Pay close attention to your utility bills!
Anonymous said...
Whether you like, hate or tolerate Rahm, he was handed a rotten mess with the parking meters. It is easy enough to blame him for the fiasco but he wasn't even here. Daley was. I wouldn't want to be the mayor after Daley. It seems to me to be a job like the guy following the horses in the parade cleaning up after them. Only this mayor is following the elephants instead of the horses.
4/30/2013 03:51:00 PM
Fuck Rahm. I don't give him an inch of slack. If you are the police remember this, Rahm is the guy who is trying to screw us out of our pensions and retiree health insurance. He can shove those parking meters up his ass. He gets no slack.
You will learn if you are the police, tell me how you feel after 29 years of this shit.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Hey just think about it. Now the mayor may have some funds which can help shore up the police pension. Genius I say. Thanks for doing the right thing Mr. Mayor.
4/30/2013 09:12:00 PM
The right thing? I'm betting he builds some skateboard parks and plants a few dozen more concrete boxes in the middle of busy streets to delay the fire trucks some more. Oh, and let's not forget that stupid New York style bicycle path on the railroad tracks. That's critically important, too.
The right thing? I'm betting he builds some skateboard parks and plants a few dozen more concrete boxes in the middle of busy streets to delay the fire trucks some more. Oh, and let's not forget that stupid New York style bicycle path on the railroad tracks. That's critically important, too.
5/01/2013 01:41:00 AM
You must be Dr. Sheldon Cooper because you did not recognize the sarcasm.
Here is a clue city of Chicago , Start charging the parking company big big money for having there meter/pay box on city property and make them have c city license for every one of them and pas it into law through the city counsel. Come on Chicago wake up put the burden on them.
4/30/2013 04:48:00 PM
I like your solution. You one smart man/woman!
"Lemonade out of a BIG LEMON!" Isn't that what Rahm said? Classic misdirection, SCC. He tried to play hero when hero wasn't even an option in this debacle.
A politician deflecting the issue while trying to remain a "non SCUM BAG!
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