| Are Canada's athletes receiving enough funding?
Who are you to deny these amateur athletes whose talents are in being able to cross country ski incredibly well, or ride a sled down a bobsleigh run faster than everyone else in the world, an income. What makes your dead-end job worth an annual salary while these people who pour 100 times the effort into their chosen sport get nothing? If you're posting on here you obviously have an interest in sport and want to see Canada do well on the international stage. Please leave out comments on how we shouldn't be spending money on athletes when Africa is going hungry, because that is not the issue here. Support our amateur athletes because they aren't the Toronto Maple Leafs, who get paid in the millions and can't perform. Support our athletes like Devon Kershaw who has been supported by his parents as well as having a job and receiving limited government carding to cross country ski as the best male in the country.
Cook-DuPage corridor project would extend Blue Line
An ambitious but highly conceptual plan to greatly expand commuter rail and bus service through the heavily congested corridor connecting central Cook and DuPage Counties was presented Thursday to the Regional Transportation Authority board.
The key element of the proposal, the result of a three-year study by a committee of suburban mayors and county commissioners, would be an extension of the Chicago Transit Authority's Blue Line on an east-west route from suburban Forest Park as far west as the Yorktown shopping center in DuPage County.
While the elements of the study are not all new, it is the first time they have been compiled in one cohesive proposal.
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Hendry sits out Fan Fest
LOVES PARK, Ill. Randy Bush has been called upon to pinch-hit once again. The former Minnesota Twin, now the assistant general manager of the Chicago Cubs, has been announced as the new featured guest for Rockford RiverHawks FanFest 2008. Bush will fill in for Cubs GM Jim Hendry, who will be unable to attend. FanFest will be held 5-9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7 at Giovannis Restaurant, 610 N. Bell School Rd. Tickets for the event are $25 and includes dinner, with tables for 10 available. Ticket proceeds will benefit the Rockford Boys and Girls Clubs. Tickets can be purchased at Road Ranger Stadium, Giovannis, Rock Valley Federal Credit Union, Tom Harmer Sports, and Got Quarters in Cherry Vale Mall. A limited amount remains. Bush spent his entire 12-year major-league playing career with the Twins and was part of the 1987 and 1991 world championship teams.
MORGAN: Awkward, unkempt and irreplaceable
This past Tuesday, 22 states held nominating contests to help decide the Democratic and Republican parties' presidential nominations. This coming Tuesday marks the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Time in between, and great admiration for the 16th president of the United States, has had me paging through biographies, searching the Internet, reading about the past and comparing it to the present. From what I've read, it was the Supreme Court setting back the clock on human rights with its Dred Scott decision and repeal of the Missouri Compromise that made Lincoln return to politics. That's rather noble, considering what inspires politicians today. In 1858, when the Illinois State Republican Convention nominated Lincoln to run against Stephen Douglas for the U.S.
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