Chrysler to Pay $3.5 Million in Employee Discrimination Lawsuit

 

Chrysler to Pay $3.5 Million in Employee Discrimination Lawsuit

 

BELVIDERE (WIFR) -- A local Chrysler Plant worker has been awarded the most amount of money ever given in a racial discrimination lawsuit in Illinois.

The seventh circuit court of appeals ordered Chrysler to pay $3.5 million to a Jewish employee.

Co-workers are accused of hurling racial slurs at him, making death threats and shredding his tires.

The employee tells us his co-workers also accused him of being a homosexual, he tells us that is not the case.

The court ruled Chrysler didn't do enough to stop it. This employee worked at the Belvidere Assembly Plant for more than 20 years.

Chrysler to Pay $3.5 Million in Employee Discrimination Lawsuit

Republican plan for Medicare could face years of hurdles: experts - chicagotribune.com

David Morgan

Reuters

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wants to turn Medicare into a voucher system and President Barack Obama hopes that fact alone will help him win votes among senior citizens and baby boomers.
But health policy experts, including two analysts who first floated the idea of Medicare vouchers 17 years ago, say no such plan is likely to become legislation - let alone law - until after the next presidential election in 2016.
That is because the mere notion of fundamentally revamping the $590 billion-a-year healthcare program, which serves 50 million elderly and disabled Americans, raises a multitude of policy issues that no politician or policymaker has addressed publicly…..

No experts in either the public or private sectors of the $2.8 trillion U.S. healthcare system have said in detail how a voucher system might work. The task require better insurance risk-adjustment mechanisms than are available now, as well as a deeper understanding of geographic variations in medical costs.

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Sycamore girl killed in '57 was 'outgoing, sweet and trusting' - chicagotribune.com

By Clifford Ward

Murder victim Maria Ridulph was described as a sweet, trusting child by prosecutors in opening statements today at the trial of the man charged with her murder more than a half-century ago.

Jack D. McCullough, a 72-year-old Seattle retiree and former Sycamore resident, is charged with killing the 7-year-old Sycamore girl in 1957 and dumping her body near Galena "in the cold dark woods like she was a piece of garbage," DeKalb County State's Attorney Clay Campbell said in his opening statement.

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Dozen shots fired near Catholic school in Rockford - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star

Is this not a charter school for Rockford Public Schools?  St. Patrick’s closed over six years ago.

ROCKFORD — Police recovered 12 bullet casings Monday near St. Patrick Catholic School at North Day Avenue and School Street.

No injuries were reported.

The incident was called in at 3:10 p.m. Police said the shots were fired from two passing vehicles, a blue Chevy Avalanche and a tan and blue vehicle of unknown make and model.

If you have any information about the incident, call Rockford police, 815-987-5824, or Crime Stoppers, 815-963-7867.

Dozen shots fired near Catholic school in Rockford - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star

Boone County mosquito tests positive for West Nile - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star

 

By Jennifer Wheeler

tested positive for the virus, said Ellen Genrich, health education and outreach coordinator. That makes it the county’s third positive tested batch.

The other incidents included a batch from July 24 in Poplar Grove and Aug. 14 in Belvidere. A resident also brought in a dead bird found July 30 in Belvidere, which also had traces of the virus.

A mild case of the West Nile virus could cause a slight fever or headache, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health’s website. Serious cases could cause high fevers with body aches, tremors and possibly death. Symptoms typically appear three to 14 days after the bite of an infected mosquito

The health department recommends practicing the three R’s to avoid becoming in contact with the virus: reduce, repel and report

Boone County mosquito tests positive for West Nile - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star

Larry Flynt offering $1 million for Romney's financial records | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

 

Hustler magazine publisher, and self-described free speech activist, Larry Flynt is offering $1 million for anyone who will provide him with Mitt Romney's financial records.

Flynt, 69, has purchased full-page ads in Sunday's Washington Post and Tuesday's, September 11 issue of USA Today

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James Knox Taylor, architect of Belvidere’s old post office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

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U.S. Post Office, Buffalo, New York, 1901

U.S. Post Office, Niagara Falls, New York, 1904

U.S. Post Office and Court House, San Francisco, now the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1905

U.S. Post Office, Waterville, Maine, 1911

James Knox Taylor (October 11, 1857 - August 27, 1929) was Supervising Architect of the United States Department of the Treasury from 1897 to 1912. His name is listed ex officio as supervising architect of hundreds of federal buildings built throughout the United States during the period.^[1]

Contents

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• 1 Early career
• 2 Tarney Act
• 3 Selected works
• 4 References

[edit] Early career

The son of H. Knox and Mary (Young) Taylor, he was born in Knoxville, Illinois and attended schools in Minnesota. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was a classmate of William Martin Aiken, who would precede him in the position of Supervisory Architect, and Cass Gilbert. After graduation he worked in the New York City office of Charles C. Haight and later with Bruce Price.^[2] In 1882 he moved to St. Paul, Minnesota where he formed a partnership with Gilbert, as Gilbert & Taylor. They built many homes and churches. Subsequently they designed the Pioneer and Endicott Buildings. In 1893 he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and formed a partnership with Amos J. Boyden. In 1895 he got a job with Aiken, the Supervisory Architect, as a temporary draftsman. In 1897, following a Civil Serice Commission examination,^[3] he became the Supervisory Architect, the first architect promoted from within.

[edit] Tarney Act

In 1893 Missouri Congressman John Charles Tarsney introduced a bill that allowed the Supervisory Architect to hold competitions among private architects for major structures. Competitions under Taylor's supervision included the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, James Farley Post Office, Cleveland Federal Building, U.S. Post Office and Courthouse (Baltimore, Maryland) and U.S. Customhouse (San Francisco, California) (which are all now on the National Register of Historic Places) among others. The competitions were met with enthusiasm by the community but were also marred by scandal, as when Taylor picked his ex-partner Cass Gilbert for the New York Customs House commission. In 1913 the act was repealed.^[4]

In 1912, Taylor returned to MIT for two years as director of the department of architecture, then moved to Yonkers, New York, where for several years he continued practicing. In 1928, he retired to Tampa, Florida, where he died the following year.^[5]

[edit] Selected works

From 1897 through 1912 Taylor is credited as "supervising architect" for federal buildings constructed during his tenure, a list which includes dozens of post offices, court houses and other structures. Local architects are often credited as well. As the head of a sizable government office, Taylor's direct involvement with any of these projects is open to question.

• Pioneer and Endicott Buildings, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1890 (with Cass Gilbert)
• Denver Mint, Denver, Colorado, 1897
• Philadelphia Mint (Third Building), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1901
• Old Post Office (Buffalo, New York), 1901
• Gatke Hall, now part of Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, 1901
• United States Courthouse Building and Downtown Postal Station (Tampa, Florida), 1902-1905
• Public Safety Building, Cumberland, Maryland, 1904
• United States Post Office, Niagara Falls, New York, 1904
• U.S. Post Office and Court House, San Francisco, now the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1905
• U.S. Post Office (Oil City, Pennsylvania), 1906
• U.S. Custom House, Houston Texas, 1907-1911^[6]
• Old Post Office (Albuquerque, New Mexico), 1908
• Old Post Office/Museum of Ceramics (East Liverpool, Ohio), 1908
• Gainesville, Florida Post Office, 1909
• U.S. Post Office (Beverly, Massachusetts), 1910
• U.S. Post Office (Belvidere, Illinois), 1911
• U.S. Post Office (Des Moines, Iowa), 1910
• U. S. Post Office, Waterville, Maine, 1911
• United States Post Office (Connellsville, Pennsylvania), 1911-1913
• Alaska Governor's Mansion, Juneau, Alaska, 1912
• United States Post Office (Johnstown, New York), Johnstown, New York, 1912-1913
• United States Post Office (Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania), Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, 1912-1914

[edit] References

1. ^ A partial list is given at Emporis.com.
2. ^ Architects to the Nation: The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect's Office by Antoinette J. Lee - Oxford University Press, USA (April 20, 2000) ISBN 0-19-512822-2
3. ^ "James Knox Taylor likely to be appointed over New yorkers", The New York Times,17 October 1897.
4. ^ Antoinette J. Lee, Architects to the Nation: The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect's Office(Oxford University Press) 2000) ISBN 0-19-512822-2
5. ^ Cass Gilbert collection, Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota
6. ^ http://www.gsa.gov/Portal/gsa/ep/buildingView.do?pageTypeId=17109&channelPage=/ep/channel/gsaOverview.jsp&channelId=-25241&

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