This is Chicago politics at their finest. The bidding process (or lack of) is becoming a joke in the public sector. If there was full disclosure of the conflicts of interests, I'm not sure anything could be done except leaving the names off the bids and evaluating the pros and cons from their offers. This assumes that the CHA actually reviewed the other bids.

Rodney Dangerfield (Thornton Melon) was accurate in his description of how to do business...
"First of all, you have to grease the local politicians."

Over the last year, a large number of people have tightened their belts, and done more with less. Others have struggled to have a job and live at a level that barely supports a family due to layoffs, reduced hours and pay. At the same time the government has spent wildly on a stimulus plan that failed miserably. When this burden is passed along to our children for many years to come, how will we recover?

The 2010 elections can't come soon enough.

If this doesn't get you to start thinking about government waste - nothing will!

I know a lot of young kids that went overboard when they saw the new movies, and cringed at the original trilogy. To them it is effects over substance that gets their vote. Look at Avatar for proof - visually stunning, but a storyline that is a bland as cardboard.

Thank God for Andrew Breitbart! He has provided news and a forum where the common man's voice can be heard. I give him a lot of credit for challenging the MSM, and the constant feeding of bs we get from them. Its time to take back the USA, and make sure the people that work for us know who is paying the bill.

I cringe to think that he made more than the original trilogy (and regrettably "remade" them), and I will second your vote for him to be added to the list. Stick to your guns and forget the fanbois. Lucas may have endeared himself to a new generation, but he jumped the shark with the second trilogy. The threat of redoing the original trilogy again in 3D has me worried that he can't leave well enough alone.

Have you noticed the new spin when reporting acts perpetrated by conservatives or liberals? The word alleged is only used when describing a liberal who may have committed a crime, but a conservative didn't allegedly do anything, they are just guilty until proven innocent.

So Reuters pulls a story on how Obama plans to stick it to middle class people by letting tax breaks expire...

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/100201/us/usre...

At least Yahoo Canada has the decency to keep it posted. The middle class is the ever shrinking class in the US, and we the people need to make sure that our government doesn't try to phase us out. When there is only the rich and poor is when the revolution starts.

In the Avatar prequel it will be revealed that the Blueskins wiped out their fellow Greenskins that were a noble and peaceful race. Apparently it had something to do with one of their mothers and some bad cloning.

J-ho has been a non factor for so long that it wouldn't matter to most people if she was describing herself instead of Palin. The only thing left of her career is her "taco flavored kisses for my Ben".