January is National Radon Awareness Month, and the Winnebago County Health Department (WCHD) is working with the US Environmental Health Protection Agency (EPA) in a national campaign.
We've talked a couple of times about how hard it can be to fire bad employees in the public sector. In fact, the Chicago Tribune had an unbelievable chart a few years ago on How Bad Teachers Survive. In short, after hearings and appeals and more hearing and more appeals it can take up to five years to get rid of even the most "deserving" teachers in the Chicago Public School system...
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When Illinois lawmakers were considering a regulatory law last year to encourage hydraulic fracturing in the state, we checked in often with Mark Denzler, vice president and chief operating officer of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association...