Posts Tagged ‘Council’
New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn compares the rooftop garden on Chicago’s City Hall to the scaffolding holding up New York’s.
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Rhymefest performs a rap about jobs, fresh food & Walmart on Garrard McClendon Live!
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Alderman Brookins talks jobs & building a Walmart on the southside with Garrard McClendon on CLTV.
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London: 20 June 2009
Westminster City Council did a great job in providing free entertainment of the highest quality. It was West End Live 2009. Hundreds of people managed to get a spot. That number will be dwarfed by the hundreds of thousands who will watch these videos from the event. It is a great advert for the entertainment available. I have a pass and am fully accredited so no waiting around. I get a great spot at the front of the stage and am free to wander around as well. No fanline so no signing but plenty of music.
Jerry Springer as Billy Flynn in Chicago till 11 July at Cambridge Theatre 0844 412 4652.
Christopher Biggins Compere
As usual, please let me know of omissions, errors and comments. Thank you.
Original in AVCHD
Copyright elizabethtoni 2009
Duration : 0:7:33
CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab discusses successful accommodation of Ramadan along with Christmas and Halloween in Oak Lawn, Illinois school and Senate resolution acknowledging Ramadan and recognizing Islam as a major world religion.
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No, not Ald. Burt Natarus (42nd).
This one is courtesy of Arenda Troutman, the defeated incumbent alderman of the 20th Ward. Note: incumbent aldermen in Chicago only leave office if they die, or retire and appoint their children. To actually be VOTED out, they have to have screwed up really, really badly.
During her almost 3-minute tirade, she blames voting irregularities, the federal government and a media conspiracy against her.
The election results below her show the reason for her ire. With 86% of precincts reporting, she is being buried by challenger Willie Cochran, 62% to 32%.
She does not mention that she is being investigated by the feds for shaking down a developer concerning a vacant parcel of land that wasn’t even in her ward. (She’s on audio tape from that little episode calling herself and her city council colleagues “ho’s”.) Or that an envelope addressed from the Police Department to her at her office was found in the apartment of a drug dealer. Or that said drug dealer was seen driving her $50,000 Escalade.
This election, her friends deserted her. Worse for any politician, so did her enemies.
About 48 seconds in, you’ll hear a voice say “Quit whining, lady. You lost!” I wonder who that could have been;-)
On a happier note, 3rd Ward candidate Pat Dowell has forced incumbent Dorothy Tillman “The Hat” into an April 17 runoff election.
UPDATE: On April 17, Dowell won.
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London: 20 June 2009
Westminster City Council did a great job in providing free entertainment of the highest quality. It was West End Live 2009. Hundreds of people managed to get a spot. That number will be dwarfed by the hundreds of thousands who will watch these videos from the event. It is a great advert for the entertainment available. I have a pass and am fully accredited so no waiting around. I get a great spot at the front of the stage and am free to wander around as well. No fanline so no signing but plenty of music.
Jerry Springer as Billy Flynn in Chicago till 11 July at Cambridge Theatre 0844 412 4652.
Christopher Biggins Compere
As usual, please let me know of omissions, errors and comments. Thank you.
Original in AVCHD
Copyright elizabethtoni 2009
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Quick view of anger admist the 5 killings in 60619
My Lakeview was present on May 14, 2007 as chicago city council passed the city’s first ever Affordable Housing Ordinance. This is clip is of Alderman Helen Shiller, 46th Ward – which includes the northern part of Lakeview. Other portions of the historic story will follow.
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6th ward alderwoman is grilled by youth in the ward for not coming around and supporting them.
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