That would be the “bureaucracy” merit badge? The Nature of Illinois Foundation recently honored a downstate Boy Scout who created a 3.1-acre wetland in Harrisburg “in cooperation with over 40 private, corporate and governmental agencies.”
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That’s “expanded” from 1,100 spaces to 450. Alderman Ted Mazola of the First Ward, who’s retiring only in the literal sense, in an October 21 fax summing up his record: “Other community meetings have resulted in the relocation and the expansion of the Maxwell Street Market.”
“Least likely of all is an American Pope,” writes David Remnick, discussing possible successors to John Paul II in the New Yorker (October 17). “Of the Americans, the most highly regarded seems to be Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, the Archbishop of Chicago, but the perceived unreliability of American Catholics and their dissident, ‘cafeteria’ quality, as well as Washington’s status as the remaining superpower, make an American pope impossible for most churchemn to imagine. None of the Vaticanisti are betting on it.”
The case of the missing lawsuit crisis, as presented by Curt Rodin of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association: “The total number of civil lawsuits filed in 1992 was down 13% from 1991….And the number of $15,000-and-over suits, small to begin with, is falling rapidly. They’re down 17% from 1991, and fully 30% below the 1985 peak.”
