“To protect Lake Michigan we have to protect the land that drains into it,” said Lake Michigan Federation director Cameron Davis in an interview last month. He favors replacing Meigs Field with a nature park to be called Sanctuary Point. Among other things, the federation would like the Chicago Park District to construct wetlands that would help purify the runoff from nearby parking lots serving Adler Planetarium and the 12th Street Beach.
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Another sidesplitting parody from those rascals at the American Bar Association. An ABA press release dated February 23 states, “In the Winter issue of Litigation, the quarterly journal of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation, William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the U.S., argues that the Supreme Court’s independence from the other branches of the federal government is its most indispensable and perhaps most assailable asset. This 4,500 plus word essay is the first published adaptation of a speech Rehnquist presented to the Tampa Bay Chapter of the Federal Bar Association on Dec. 11, 1999.” Litigation’s editor in chief, Gary Sasso, adds, “What emerges in this issue is a testament to the rule of law.” I guess being independent means never having to say you’re sorry for arbitrarily picking a president, eh?
Moving in the right direction. Percentage of Illinoisans in poverty, according to Census Bureau figures reported in “Fiscal Focus” (December): for 1993-’95 the figure was 12.8. For 1997-’99 it was 10.4.
