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...took out the facts, it looks like we're talking about a Third World dictatorship," says Jay Stewart, executive director of Chicago's Better Government Association, a nonpartisan watchdog group formed in the 1920s out of concern for the rising influence of mobster Al Capone...
...serves on the Chicago city council, to run for his seat on the Cook County Board. Currently, Stroger holds both positions himself, but under county rules, they may be occupied by two separate officeholders. "Todd Stroger has never been any kind of major player in the city council," noted Stewart. "It is essentially feudal law. The primogeniture system is alive and well here," he said...
...Chicago and Cook County are prime examples of how not to run local government," says Stewart. "It's a cautionary tale that shows what happens when there is no transparency or accountability." And, as it has seemed lately, no functioning government...
...another station to save just a penny or two, owners are slow to raise prices to cover their increased costs--and at times even lose money when a customer charges a fill-up. "We get hurt when the price goes up--the opposite of what the customer thinks," says Stewart Spinks, who runs 38 Spinx stores in the Carolinas and Georgia. With gas at $3 per gal., Spinks hands credit-card companies about 7¢ per gal.--half of what he makes before paying employees and spending on equipment. So he has joined station owners in Tennessee, Minnesota, New York...
...President Bush has created the world's largest protected marine area, dubbed the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument. It contains sea life that has inspired some of our most breathtaking screen savers." JON STEWART...