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CTA strikes again. See here for brief details.

Like we have said before, the CTA needs transparency. In order to get its budget under control, find wasteful spending, weed it out, and clean up the budget — rather than letting budget mismanagement and waste continue, “solving” the problem by raising fares over, and over, and over again and throwing blame around — implementing transparency would provide the first step to solving the CTA’s budget problems.

WWBOD? What would Barack Obama do? Seriously… why are Illinois “elected officials…talking…that the Barack Obama presidency will do much of the heavy lifting” to shape up the CTA?

Crain’s Chicago Business

Letter to the Editor by John Tillman

State must act on CTA woes

Regarding Crain’s June 16 editorial, “In superstation mess, city sinks to new low,” we agree that the Block 37 fiasco is a clear sign …

By Dennis Byrne
The Chicago Tribune
May 26, 2008

State Sen. Jeff Schoenberg (D-Evanston) suggests that a massive, costly, long-awaited and controversial statewide public-works program won’t be considered by the legislature until after the fall elections.

The idea that politicians …

Commentary: No guts in Springfield, no transit fix

By Dennis Byrne

November 26, 2007

For all of the Iraqi parliament’s flaws, I would trade it straight up for the crowd that we’ve got in Springfield. Ridiculous, you say? Then, consider …