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« Previous EntriesPork Report is back. Sen Jones is leaving.
Thursday, August 21st, 2008After a week of sparse posting, the Pork Report should soon be back to full strength. What’s happened since we posted last? Well, Emil Jones announced his retirement. Jones, pork broker extraordinaire and subject of a pork spending lawsuit, has announced that his son, Emil Jones III, will take his place [...]
Self promoter? Sign up for state money.
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Today’s Pork Project of the Day, like so, so many others, comes to us from the FIF fund. In 2005, the N’DIGO foundation received a $100,000 economic development grant from the state. One of N’DIGO’s functions is to handout college scholarships, largely to minority youths. And, while the process behind deciding whom receives FIF fund [...]
Orga…hmmm…Organic Food Project matching grant?!
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008Today’s Pork Project of the Day is this winner from Gov. Blagojevich.
The biggest draw at the Kerry Wood Strike Zone fund-raiser Wednesday night wasn’t one of the star athletes — it was Mark Cuban…
It was the fifth annual fund-raiser hosted by Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood and his teammates, and it drew nearly 500 [...]
Pork, corruption, mismanagement: A keepsake.
Friday, August 8th, 2008Chicago State University has been the recipient of massive amounts of pork over the past fifteen years, despite the university’s laughable academic reputation and its chronic mismanagement. AFP has long highlighted the signs of taxpayer abuse at Chicago State:
Since Elnora Daniel was appointed to her position as President of Chicago State University (CSU), campaign [...]
In case ESPN comes to town
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Illinois lawmakers are continuing their call for a capital plan, claiming often that the state’s infrastructure is crumbling. Schools, they say, stand to benefit.
Today’s Pork Project of the Day is a $36,100 grant from the pork slush fund “The Fund For Illinois’ Future” to Rockridge Junior/Senior High School in Edgington, Illinois. The grant funds were [...]
Pork windows. Now, that’s better.
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008Today’s Pork Project of the Day is another FIF fund project. In 2006, the Parkview School in Yorkville received a $120,000 grant to replace its windows - not because the windows installed in the 1960s were deficient, but because they looked bad.
Drew Carey on pork, and aliens
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008Over at Reason.tv, Drew Carey has produced a must-see episode on earmarks:
Pork lawsuit coverage
Monday, August 4th, 2008Last week, the Pork Report announced that AFP-Illinois and Judicial Watch were taking our fight for transparency to the courts. A number of media outlets around the state picked up on the story. Here’s a round-up of print media coverage, so far:
Peoria Journal Star
Crain’s Chicago Business Journal
Rockford Register Star
Chicago Tribune
State Journal Register
Not bad [...]
Pork Project of the Day is back
Monday, August 4th, 2008Today’s Pork Project of the Day comes to us from the For for Illinois’ Future (the so-called “FIF fund”). If you’re not familiar with the FIF fund, peruse this sight. You’ll get a feel for how your tax dollars are being spent. Today’s project is a $100,000 grant given to the Christian [...]
YouWatch it: our pork lawsuit
Friday, August 1st, 2008It turns out, filing lawsuits is involved business. After yesterday’s press conference in Springfield, the editors of the Pork Report have returned to their homes in many corners of the state, and our friends at Judicial Watch have returned to D.C.
Typically, the Pork Report will at the very least, bring you a Pork Project [...]
