CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Cronin’s proposed DuPage budget calls for new employees, election equipment
funding — and small tax hike – ALICIA FABBRE
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/ct-nvs-dupage-budget-election-money-st-0925-20190924-pmt2c4p54jctnl4653q5xmnwc4-story.html
— As marijuana legalization approaches in Illinois, industry observers predict
potential for corruption, shortages of weed and lots of work for lawyers –
ROBERT MCCOPPIN
https://www.chicagotribune.com/marijuana/illinois/ct-marijuana-illinois-predictions-20190925-uvo7nzt7erhpdglgxujowwezo4-story.html
— FRONT PAGE WITH COLOR PICTURE: There’s a lot of talk about an ‘Illinois
exodus.’ We took a closer look at the reality behind the chatter. – Cecilia
REYES and PATRICK M. O’CONNELL (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, the Democrats who
run Illinois make it clear that they want members of the following groups a) to
leave Illinois and b) to not come to Illinois: Trump supporters, Protestant,
conservative, patriotic, Republican, American, White, male, older people, rich
people, gun owners, German Americans, draft avoiders, and/or those whose
ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-census-illinois-population-trend-leavers-met-20190925-55e2uha64rardg7pa5734u6twu-story.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD IN NAPERVILLE SUN: Indian Prairie has a more diverse
teaching staff, but still faces gap, officials say – SUZANNE BAKER (DIERSEN:
While I worked for GAO 1980-1997, GAO bragged about its success in meeting
Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Inclusion quotas, goals, and targets, that
is, GAO bragged about its success in getting rid of its employees who were
Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran who had not made GS-13 (currently
$98,198) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $116,040) by age 30, GS-15 (currently
$136,495) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $165,500) by age
40.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/ct-nvs-204-staff-diversity-st-0925-20190924-dtjwxpwe2jblfaxfakx2huswi4-story.html
DAILY HERALD
— DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Schaumburg lifts 7-year ban on video gambling – Bob
Susnjara
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190925/schaumburg-lifts-7-year-ban-on-video-gambling-boomers-stadium-can-get-them
— Naperville League of Women Voters focuses on young adults on national
registration day – Marie Wilson (DIERSEN: Overwhelmingly, “young
adults” are dominated by Democrat teachers.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190924/naperville-league-of-women-voters-focuses-on-young-adults-on-national-registration-day
ABC7
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: Ever-increasingly, Democrats promote abolition of the
Second Amendment.
https://abc7chicago.com/politics/hundreds-of-chicagoans-drive-overnight-to-us-capitol-for-gun-violence-rally/5566376/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago way ahead of U.S.—in those who can’t afford to sell their home The local
share of people who owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth on
the market is more than twice the national figure. – DENNIS RODKIN
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-real-estate/chicago-way-ahead-us-those-who-cant-afford-sell-their-home
HERALD NEWS
— OUTSTANDING: Plainfield poised to join Bolingbrook, Naperville in opting out
of recreational marijuana business – SARWAT S. AHMAD
https://www.theherald-news.com/2019/09/24/plainfield-poised-to-join-bolingbrook-naperville-in-opting-out-of-recreational-marijuana-business/a70xbhi/
FOREST PARK REVIEW
— As temptations expand, treatment will too Uptick in funding addiction,
mental health services amid gambling and marijuana legalization
– Michael Romain (DIERSEN: With government ever-increasingly promoting booze,
gambling, pot, and other vices, how soon will everyone in America either be a)
an addict or b) someone who treats addicts?)
https://www.forestparkreview.com/News/Articles/9-24-2019/As-temptations-expand,-treatment-will-too/
— DIERSEN HEADLINE: DISGUSTING, TRAGIC: Ever-increasingly, Democrats encourage
children to engage in LGBTQ activity.
https://www.forestparkreview.com/News/Articles/9-24-2019/D91-to-teach-LGBT-contributions/
FOX ILLINOIS
— OUTSTANDING: Village of Chatham Board members vote against recreational
marijuana sales
https://foxillinois.com/news/local/village-of-chatham-board-members-vote-against-recreational-marijuana-sales
NPR ILLINOIS
— The Ongoing Clash Between Trump And Big Cities – CHERYL CORLEY
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/ongoing-clash-between-trump-and-big-cities#stream/0
WHEATON PATCH
— Cronin Proposes Ninth Consecutive Balanced Budget – Evan Shields
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/cronin-proposes-ninth-consecutive-balanced-budget
WILL COUNTY GAZETTE
— New candidate Dr. Eric Wallace wants to bring ‘morals, character, values’ to
40th District Senate seat – Glenn Minnis
https://willcountygazette.com/stories/513841233-new-candidate-wallace-wants-to-bring-morals-character-values-to-40th-district-senate-seat
CAPITOL FAX
— Lightfoot poll shows major shift in Chicagoans’ attitudes about their city
(DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, the Democrats who run Chicago want Chicago to be
viewed as being anti-Trump, anti-Protestant, anti-conservative, anti-patriotic,
anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people,
anti-rich people, anti-gun owners, anti-German Americans, anti-draft avoiders,
and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.)
https://capitolfax.com/2019/09/24/lightfoot-poll-shows-major-shift-in-chicagoans-attitudes-about-their-city/
FOX NEWS
— Joe Walsh, Bill Weld swing at Trump in first GOP primary debate – Melissa
Leon
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-walsh-bill-weld-swing-at-trump-in-first-gop-primary-debate
AMERICAN THINKER
— Excellence or equity in education? Let’s look at Evanston, Illinois (home of
Northwestern) and Naperville, Illinois (western suburbs of Chicago) and their
two different approaches to achievement. – John Foley
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/09/excellence_or_equity_in_education.html
— The meaning of ‘Howdy, Modi’ – Richard Jack Rail
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/09/the_meaning_of_howdy_modi.html
CNS NEWS
— Trump: We Have the Right to Protect Our Borders – Melanie Arter
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-arter/trump-we-have-right-protect-our-borders
— Taylor Swift Shouldn’t Support Equality Act: Here Are 7 Reasons Why – Monica
Burke
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/monica-burke/taylor-swift-shouldnt-support-equality-act-here-are-7-reasons-why
FREEDOM’S JOURNAL
— YOUTH AND IGNORANCE – Walter E. Williams
https://freedomsjournalinstitute.org/latest-news/opinion/youth-and-ignorance/
PROPUBLICA
— Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers From Seeing Job Ads.
The Federal Government Thinks That’s Illegal. In a first, the U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission has ruled that companies violated civil rights law
through their use of Facebook’s targeting advertising. – Ariana Tobin
https://www.propublica.org/article/employers-used-facebook-to-keep-women-and-older-workers-from-seeing-job-ads-the-federal-government-thinks-thats-illegal
HUFFINGTON POST
— Feds Say Companies Used Facebook Ads During Hiring For Age, Gender
Discrimination The EEOC found that seven companies — including Capital One —
used discriminatory Facebook tools to hide ads from women and older users, a
union group announced. – Ja’han Jones
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/facebook-ads-eeoc_n_5d8a7c83e4b0c6d0cef2fe66
REUTERS
– Two of Trump’s Republican challengers (Walsh and Weld) support impeachment
effort – Trevor Hunnicutt
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-republicans/two-of-trumps-republican-challengers-support-impeachment-effort-idUSKBN1W9143
ABC NEWS
— Walsh, Weld hammer Trump at GOP debate: ‘It’s not about the issues, it’s
about Trump’ – WILL STEAKIN
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/walsh-weld-hammer-trump-gop-debate-issues-trump/story?id=65837922
NEW YORK TIMES
— Bernie Sanders Proposes a Wealth Tax: ‘I Don’t Think That Billionaires Should
Exist’ Mr. Sanders is embracing an idea at the center of Elizabeth Warren’s
presidential campaign. His proposal goes further in who would be taxed and how
much money would be raised. – Thomas Kaplan
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/24/us/politics/bernie-sanders-wealth-tax.html
WASHINGTON POST
— As hate crime laws expand, who to exclude as victims? – Rob Kuznia (DIERSEN:
According to Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, and RINOs, only Republicans
commit hate crimes, and further, only Republicans who are Trump supporters,
Protestant, conservative, patriotic, White, male, older, rich, gun owners,
German American, draft avoiders, and/or those whose ancestors have been in
America for a long time.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/as-hate-crime-laws-expand-who-to-exclude-as-victims/2019/09/03/796fe814-bd30-11e9-a5c6-1e74f7ec4a93_story.html
— D.C.’s Takoma is a neighborhood that fought for diversity and still reaps
its benefits – Nina Zafar (DIERSEN: What do real estate agents say about those
who live in your neighborhood, in your precinct, and in your
municipality?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/dcs-takoma-a-neighborhood-that-fought-for-diversity-still-reaps-its-benefits/2019/08/28/917e046a-c8cd-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html
NEW YORK POST
— Trump tells UN the truth about globalism and nationalism – Editorial
https://nypost.com/2019/09/24/trump-tells-un-the-truth-about-globalism-and-nationalism/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— SAT Scores Fall as More Students Take the Test Greater number of districts
are offering tests free to students during the school day, creating a more
diverse pool – Tawnell D. Hobbs (DIERSEN: When you were in high school, were
you viewed as being “college material?” When I was in high school, I was not
viewed as being “college material.” Neither of my parents had attended college.
My father was the first of his ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My
mother never attended high school. I spent my junior and senior years and the
summer in between washing dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the
S.S. Kresges in Chicago Heights. I just barely made into the upper 20% of my
class. My ACT score was only 24. I was 1-A for draft notwithstanding the fact
that my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, I had partial red/green color
blindness, and I had Osgood-Schlatter disease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgood%E2%80%93Schlatter_disease).)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/sat-scores-fall-as-more-students-take-the-test-11569297660
— Warren’s Profligate Sop to Seniors She promises to lift Social Security
beneficiaries out of poverty—at a price tag of $70,000 apiece.
– John F. Cogan (DIERSEN: My Social Security is dramatically less because I
have a Civil Service Retirement System pension.)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/warrens-profligate-sop-to-seniors-11569366967
BLOOMBERG
— Facebook Settled, But the Ad Bias Scandal Isn’t Over The U.S. government is
pursuing claims that job postings by Capital One and Enterprise violated
anti-bias law. – Josh Eidelson , Paige Smith , and Jaclyn Diaz
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-25/facebook-settled-but-the-ad-bias-scandal-isn-t-over
FORTUNE
— ‘This Is Donald Trump’s Party.’ Republicans Running Against Trump Fail to
Divide a United GOP – Renae Reints
https://fortune.com/2019/09/24/what-republicans-are-running-against-trump/
FORBES
— Housing Markets Turning Ugly In 2019 – Andrew DePietro
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2019/09/23/housing-markets-ugly-2019/#67c62bfc7f5f
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Local governments spend millions caring for migrants
dumped by Trump’s Border Patrol Migrants arrive exhausted, out of money, even
sick from time in Border Patrol custody. Local governments spend millions for
their care. – Alan Gomez (DIERSEN: Ever-increasingly, Democrats illegally
encourage citizens of foreign countries to illegally come to America illegally
and to illegally stay in America illegally.)
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2019/09/23/border-crisis-trump-administration-real-cost-tax-money/1739727001/
BOSTON GLOBE
— Marijuana enthusiast Seth Rogen releases PSA promoting National Expungement
Week (DIERSEN: What do you want your critics/opponents to expunge from your
record? To start with, I want my Democrat superiors in the federal government
to expunge from my employment record all the adverse actions that they took
against me. Then I want my critics/opponents to expunge the adverse actions
that they had the following take against me: Milton Township Republican Central
Committee, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican
Party, Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois, TAPROOT Republicans
of Illinois, Wheaton Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Center Right Coalition,
American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter, etc.)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/marijuana/2019/09/24/marijuana-enthusiast-seth-rogen-releases-psa-promoting-national-expungement-week/AWjM790FXZrC54ws2mdGjJ/story.html
DESERET NEWS
— I’m old, not dead! The offensive way media portrays our older adult
population Ageism costs the U.S. economy billions of dollars — not to mention
the lost joy and productivity of Americans over age 50. – Lois M. Collins
(DIERSEN: What do you say to older people who pander to younger people by
demonizing, denigrating, condemning, and destroying older people? How strong is
age discrimination in your neighborhood, in your precinct, in your
municipality, in your township/ward, and in your county? I should write a book
about the biggest age discriminators in my neighborhood, in my precinct, in
Wheaton’s West District, in Wheaton, in Milton Township, and in DuPage County.)
https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2019/9/24/20880106/elderly-media-portrayal-ageism-us-economy-aarp
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Speaking Out Against Student Evaluations Sociologists and more than a dozen
other professional groups take a stand against using student evaluations of
teaching as a primary measure of teaching effectiveness. – Colleen Flaherty
(DIERSEN: While I worked for the Democrats who run GAO, they had subordinates
evaluate their supervisors. Those subordinates knew full-well that GAO wanted
to get rid of its employees who were Republican, White, male, and/or
non-veteran and who had no made GS-13 (currently $98,198) by age 25, GS-14
(currently $116,040) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $136,495) by age 35, and
Senior Executive Service (currently $165,500) by age 40.)
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/09/10/sociologists-and-more-dozen-other-professional-groups-speak-out-against-student
FEDERAL TIMES
— Federal employees demand an end to Trump’s anti-union policies – Jessie Bur
https://www.federaltimes.com/management/2019/09/24/feds-demand-an-end-to-trumps-anti-union-policies/
FED SMITH
— Reskilling And Upskilling Offer Opportunities and Challenges for Agencies
and Employees – Jeff Neal (DIERSEN: What did you do to qualify yourself for
better paying jobs? I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21
in 1970 and job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b)
job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48,
and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32.)
https://www.fedsmith.com/2019/09/24/reskilling-upskilling-offer-opportunities-challenges-agencies-employees/