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Riverside Info: Recent Topics http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ Discussion Forum for Riverside Illinois en Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:57:20 +0000 CuriousResident on "Landmark letter - Turnaround needed at RBHS" http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/landmark-letter-turnaround-needed-at-rbhs#post-11209 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:58:28 +0000 CuriousResident 11209@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ The Landmark printed something called <a href="http://www.rblandmark.com/main.asp?SectionID=3&SubSectionID=17&ArticleID=5476&TM=42763.39">Turnaround needed at RBHS</a>...I say "something", because it says based on Chris Robling's Oct. 13 remarks to the board. , which makes you think it was not actually a letter sent to the Landmark. ? Anywhose, the information about the pending D208 financial problems are for sure needed to be brought to the forefront, as it is clear that we should expect referendums from both the village and D208 and if they don't pass things are going to become quite volatile. That being said, since Chris frequents this forum I thought I'd post a curiosity I had about the amount of focus in the "letter" on the past...and in particular the conclusion: <blockquote>Accountability would get a jump-start with town hall meetings on why the majority approved a contract that requires higher property taxes to fund 32 percent raises. </blockquote> It makes sense to clearly know "where we are", but I guess I don't know what we expect to achieve from reviewing the past and assigning "accountability". It won't change where we are and it would seem to take away from focusing on "where do we go from here". What's the thinking? mrt on "Latest (Feb, 2012) water bill seems high" http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/latest-feb-2012-water-bill-seems-high#post-15914 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:17:05 +0000 mrt 15914@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ Is it just me or did the water rates go up ? I just recvd my Feb 2012 water bill it seems extra high , especially during the winter, and either I have a toilet running ovetime, or there is some other culprit. spatny on "On Wisconsin..." http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/on-wisconsin#post-13813 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:19:15 +0000 spatny 13813@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhZtYRiIho0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhZtYRiIho0</a> Tme to battle the Tea Party. Two seats left in the Avanti - bring your own Christian Brothers, it;s colder there. Walker only needs to get one Dem senator back in the senate to have a quorum and win his vote. But if you look at it another way... According to the 2010 Wisconsin Code Chapter 9 : 9.10(1)(a) (a) The qualified electors of the state, of any county, city, village, or town, of any congressional, legislative, judicial, town sanitary, or school district, or of any prosecutorial unit may petition for the recall of any incumbent elective official by filing a petition with the same official or agency with whom nomination papers or declarations of candidacy for the office are filed demanding the recall of the officeholder. 9.10(1)(b) (b) Except as provided in par. (c), a petition for recall of an officer shall be signed by electors equal to at least 25% of the vote cast for the office of governor at the last election within the same district or territory as that of the officeholder being recalled. 9.10(2)(s) (s) No petition for recall of an officer may be offered for filing prior to the expiration of one year after commencement of the term of office for which the officer is elected. The last paragraph explains why Scott Walker can't at this moment be recalled until January 2012. But According to Think Progress,eight of Scott Walker’s Republican allies in the state senate have served at least one year of their current term which makes them eligible for a recall petition right now. And Democrats will only need to win 3 out of these 8 seats to regain the majority in the senate. There is more than one way to skin a cat. Walker is claiming a $137 million shortfall, but since his election he has goven tax cuts amounting to over $140 million to his backers. This is the state that brought us the 40 hour week, the eight hour day, weekends, child labor laws,and so much more. They are not going to give up so easily... If the Tea Baggers from Virginia can flood in, so can Dems from Illinois. This is where the fight is today... mrt on "Who's on first?" http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/whos-on-first#post-15917 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:38:49 +0000 mrt 15917@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK3wMFiSq8U&feature=share" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK3wMFiSq8U&feature=share</a> DanielMancoff on "Clarion - Every Student Has a Story" http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/clarion-every-student-has-a-story#post-15915 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:15:45 +0000 DanielMancoff 15915@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ Hi, I am the sponsor of the Riverside Brookfield High School Clarion, RB's student newspaper. We thought you might be interested in a new interactive feature that went up on our site called "Every Student Has a Story." It can be found here: <a href="http://rbclarion.com/top-stories/2012/02/02/every-student-has-a-story/" rel="nofollow">http://rbclarion.com/top-stories/2012/02/02/every-student-has-a-story/</a> The idea was to have every Clarion reporter choose a student at random from RB's roster and interview them for a feature-length story. We launched with eight students represented with more to arrive shortly. Clarion is providing these links as service to forward our mission of informing the community about issues related to our high school. If you have any questions or comments related to the story, please either use the commenting forum available at our web site or contact the school administration directly. Dan Mancoff Clarion Sponsor mrt on "Pensions" http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/pensions#post-12103 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:22:49 +0000 mrt 12103@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ (Public) pensions have been mentioned in these pages alot (clicking on the 'pension' tag above gives some links). Today's Suntimes, Terry avage relates that we are actually borrowing from them now to pay for the state's operations. And she quotes a report that says Illinois gov't has been doing this for the last 30 yrs. It cites a source called, <a href="http://www.IllinoisIsBroke.com" rel="nofollow">www.IllinoisIsBroke.com</a> . Pretty clearly named, eh? <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/business/savage/2048376,CST-NWS-savage15.savagearticle" rel="nofollow">http://www.suntimes.com/business/savage/2048376,CST-NWS-savage15.savagearticle</a> <blockquote>Emperor has no clothes: Pensions are short cash February 15, 2010 BY TERRY SAVAGE <a href="mailto:savage@suntimes.com">savage@suntimes.com</a> Illinois politicians are at it again. They're borrowing from the future to make state pension contributions today. Illinois has one of the most underfunded public pension plans in the nation. When boomers start retiring, there won't be enough money to pay those pension promises. Both political parties are still trying to hide the magnitude of the problem. » Click to enlarge image Under Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Illinois borrowed $10 billion for pensions in 2003, with some of the borrowings to be invested in the stock market to beat the 5 percent cost of interest. (AP File) In early January, while everyone was busy watching the nasty campaign commercials, the State of Illinois pulled an end-run on the budget process. On Jan. 7 the state sold $3.5 billion of "pension obligation notes." In simple English, the state borrowed money to finance the state's contribution to its five retirement systems. ... In November 2009, the state's Pension Modernization Task Force sent its recommendations to Gov. Quinn. The Task Force concluded that Illinois' unfunded pension liability exceeds $61 BILLION! And that number is growing exponentially. The report points out the "deadly combination of nearly 30 years of systematic state underfunding of its employer contributions to the pension systems" as the main cause of the gap between promises and reality. It's also exacerbated by longer life expectancies and payout periods, not to mention the second-worst decade ever for investment returns. The report lays out the problem clearly: "Not wanting to implement dramatic cuts in spending on essential services, the legislature and various governors elected to instead divert revenue from making the required employer pension contribution to maintaining services like education, health care, public safety and caring for disadvantaged populations. Effectively, the state used the pension systems as a credit card to fund ongoing service operations." Several pension reform proposals have been presented to the Illinois Legislature. Even the most gentle reforms would require the state to make additional annual pension contributions of more than $12 billion every year. Simply cutting benefits for current or future retirees comes nowhere near to solving the problem. And the prospect of a longer-lasting recession wreaks havoc on the state budget, aside from pension contributions. Illinois now has public debt of more than $130 BILLION. Unlike the federal government, our state cannot simply create new money to pay its bills. At some point -- and that point is very near -- investors will no longer be willing to lend money that cannot be repaid. If you would like to see more facts and figures, check out the Web site <a href="http://www.IllinoisIsBroke.com," rel="nofollow">www.IllinoisIsBroke.com,</a> created by the nonpartisan Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago. A visit to the site shows a few pictures that are worth a thousand words -- and billions of dollars. ... </blockquote> mrt on "CHOOSE MADE In AMERICA. COM" http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/choose-made-in-aerica-com#post-15407 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:58:27 +0000 mrt 15407@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ Came across this website. It would be beneficial if we all have more info on what products (and services, ideally) are made in the USA. <a href="http://www.choosemadeinusa.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.choosemadeinusa.com/</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Buyingbackourjobs" rel="nofollow">http://www.facebook.com/Buyingbackourjobs</a> Corporations that shift jobs overseas are traitors to the USA, at least in spirit. I do not know how those in the corporations that make the decisions to shift USA jobs and displace USA jobs to overseas can live in the USA comfortably and without shame. How do they go to church? Do they make pantomime gestures about 'helping their fellow man' ; is this holiday time where helping your fellow man is accented especially painful for these folks? How can they look in the eyes those - including their family members - they did this to and which decisions ruined those lives ? Is it some sort of Darwinian 'who <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Moved_My_Cheese%3F">lost my cheese?</a>' crap that blinds them from what they did to their neighbors - even if their neighbors might not live across the street from them? Those neighbors are their fellow members of the community called US citizens and not some free-for-all, inchoate, undefined jungle. We're living in the same bathtub. If they muck up others in the same bathtub, it will yield ill consequences to them or to their kin eventually. <a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110923051707AAHXG8Q">The business of mankind is mankind </a>and it starts with your neighbor. spatny on "And so it begins..." http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/and-so-it-begins#post-13614 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:56:45 +0000 spatny 13614@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ Today the House Dems offered a simple bill: All members of the House should disclose if they are taking Federal health Care. EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN voted to not disclose, even though they are trying to remove the healthcare coverage of millions of their fellow citizens. This crap is what we are all in for now. I guess Billie knew what she was singing about back in '41 when she wrote this. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpN40V0s4_E" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpN40V0s4_E</a> Cristin Evans on "Summer nanny needed" http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/summer-nanny-needed#post-15851 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:16:38 +0000 Cristin Evans 15851@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ We are looking for someone to care for our 4-½-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter for 40-50 hours per week from June 1 through the end of August (negotioable). We'll need someone to take our kids to their various activities, the zoo, swimming, etc., throughout the summer months. If you are responsible, friendly, energetic, and prompt with very good references, we'd love to meet you. Please e-mail me at cristin.evans at gmail.com. HRCollins on "2012 Riverside Little League Registration is Open" http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/2012-riverside-little-league-registration-is-open#post-15766 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:40:10 +0000 HRCollins 15766@http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/ Dear Riverside Little League Community, It's amazing how another year has passed. It's already registration time for the 2012 Riverside Little League Season. Despite time passing so quickly, I've come to recognize there is no other Riverside based activity that provides the entire family an environment to connect with others like Little League does. Where else can you watch your children and your friends’ children learn life skills such as team work, sportsmanship and competition in a clean and safe setting while enjoying the great outdoors? My son, Riley, completed his 8th year of Riverside Little League in 2011. Many of his fondest memories occurred on the playing fields of Hauser, Harrington Park and Indian Gardens. Not only has he learned many life lessons playing on those fields he has built friendships with buddies that he may have never had the opportunity to meet if it had not been for baseball. Though I doubt he can tell you the record of each team, I am sure he can list countless good times had with each team! The RLL Board is excited to get the 2012 season started. This year’s emphasis is on training. We are developing programs at all levels for baseball and softball. We are also planning some coaching clinics. A new effort this year is to concentrate on specific skills such as softball pitching and catching in both baseball and softball. Riverside Little League will hold two Open House sessions this month. This will give parents a chance to meet with the Board and to drop off their registration and Manager/Coach applications. The first open house is Sunday, 22 January from noon to 1:00 pm. The second session is Saturday, 28 January from 9:00 am to 10:00 am. Both sessions will be held at Riverside Town Hall. Registrations can also be dropped off at Riverside Bank (17 E Burlington St) or mailed to PO Box 3, Riverside, IL 60546. Riverside Little League has teams for 5 through 14 year olds. This year, I also want to remind everybody of our Junior Baseball and Softball programs. These programs are for players who are league age 13 and 14. (<a href="http://www.littleleague.org/Assets/forms_pubs/AgeChartBBandSB.pdf">See age chart</a> ) This is great program for those who want to continue playing after the Major level and play baseball with their friends. There is a change on the equipment front. Riverside Little League will NOT SUPPLY Batting Helmets. This decision was made because of health and safety issues. RLL will have a special purchase program for the helmets – the helmets will be $25.00. Remember, Riverside Little League requires all helmets to have facemasks. League fees will remain the same as last year and remain some of the lowest Little League fees in the area (North Riverside $140, LaGrange Park $165, River Forest $150, Burr Ridge $185). Our great sponsors help greatly to keep our fees down. Find registration forms and manager and coach applications at <a href="http://www.riversidell.com.">www.riversidell.com.</a> I encourage you not only to register your children to play, but you as parents, to register to coach and/or volunteer for the 2012 season. Very few community programs have been as constant and successful over the generations as Little League, so please join us in this wonderful Riverside family tradition. On behalf of the 2012 Riverside Little League Board of Directors we look forward to seeing you at the ballpark! Rick Collins President, Riverside Little League RIVERSIDE LITTLE LEAGUE BOARD Rick Collins, President Cathy Gryczan, Vice President Danielle Delzotti, Secretary Ron Zia, Treasurer Christine O’Connor John Walsh Mike Sedivy Doug Pollock Mike Gentile Jack Tucek Mike Manchen Jen Gentile Mike Murphy