If I have my wipers on intermittent, will I only be fined $37.50? A new state law, according to Secretary of State George Ryan, requires drivers to turn on their headlights “at times when rain, snow, fog or other weather conditions make it necessary to turn on the windshield wipers.” The fine is $75.
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Hi honey, I got our financial problems all worked out–took out a home-equity loan to pay off the groceries! “In reviewing this year’s final [schools] deal, one leading Chicago banker said it was the worst arrangement that could possibly have been worked out, with the sole exception of actually closing down Chicago’s school system,” writes Lawrence Howe in Chicago Enterprise (January/February). “By failing to furnish the added funds needed to deal with the system’s operating deficit, and instead requiring that the amount of the shortfall be covered by borrowed funds, legislators have simultaneously ducked their own responsibilities, added to the size of the problem and pushed it back to be dealt with later. There is ample history here and in other cities to tell us that this road–that is, borrowing funds on a long-term basis to cover short-term deficits–can lead to disaster.”
My disease is more important than your disease. Laura Flanders critiquing the media in Extra! (January/February): “According to the New York Times, some 194,000 people in the U.S. have died of AIDS since 1980; 450,000 have died of breast cancer. Yet when ABC in September produced a special on breast cancer, it was called ‘The Other Epidemic.’”
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Carl Kock.
