Chicago taxpayers shouldn’t pay for extra instructor prep time

Regarding Jim Morris’ letter from Oct. 4, “Giving teachers more prep time is good for Chicago’s school kids:” Apparently Mr. Morris, an Evanston resident, thinks it’s okay for Chicago taxpayers to pay Chicago Teachers Union academics for extra prep time and thereby shorten the time for precise instruction. Teachers should not paid an hourly wage. They are paid an above-average wage to carry out their job of instructing Chicago college youngsters. As in different professions, a wage requires that the individual do no matter is important to arrange for his or her work day. If which means working nights and weekends or coming into work early, so be it. No skilled (be that individual a

With Joe Maddon gone, time for Rickettses to take blame for

So now the disagreeable enterprise of parting firm with Cubs supervisor Joe Maddon is finished. Two issues about which are true: It needed to occur, and it’s too unhealthy it got here to this. The man who helped lead the franchise to what had been unthinkable, a World Series title, was additionally the person who oversaw a proficient membership that couldn’t make the most of the open window in entrance of it. The failure wasn’t all Maddon’s fault. He won't even be answerable to 25 % of it. But in sports activities, for those who’re not profitable, you’re on the brink of be requested what you’d like for a last meal. So Maddon was taken away

Time to spend money on that South Side golf course

The alarming misinformation marketing campaign surrounding the Jackson Park/South Shore Golf Course should be addressed. A current letter within the Chicago Sun-Times noting the 114-year-old South Shore Golf Course will turn out to be an expensive course below the proposed plan is one other misguided try to discourage progress and growth. The Chicago Park District will proceed to personal and handle the South Shore Cultural Center and golf programs. All Chicagoans are welcome to make use of the services, however why anybody suggests kids “play ball” aside from golf on a golf course is asinine. SEND LETTERS TO: letters@suntimes.com. Please embrace your neighborhood or hometown and a cellphone quantity for verification functions. There are playgrounds

Joe Maddon: ‘It’s big-boy time’ for Cubs

ST. LOUIS – Cubs supervisor Joe Maddon began August with a number of new toys to play with in his lineup and bullpen. But even with newcomers Nick Castellanos and Tony Kemp making their Cub debuts within the beginning lineup and holdover ace Jon Lester beginning the brand new month on the mound in opposition to the Cardinals, the duty down the stretch appeared loads just like the Cubs’ labor the primary 4 months. The Cubs and Cardinals opened August tied for first, with the Brewers one sport again. And the one factor Maddon knew for certain on Thursday was that there can be no crying in baseball the remainder of the way in which because

For Neil Steinberg, this summer season has been a time for

How’s your summer season going? Mine has been spent recovering from backbone surgical procedure. Not one thing that sometimes goes into the newspaper. But I discovered the method fascinating, and hope you do, too. I’ll relate the story this week in three elements. If I’m unsuitable, properly, there’s at all times subsequent week. It couldn’t be a traditional ailment — no most cancers, no coronary heart illness. Oh no, no, not for me. Odd duck that I'm, it needed to have one thing obscure: stenosis, which appears like zeneosis, the imaginary illness I cooked as much as entertain my boys after they had been small and we’d go to their zayde at Skokie Valley Hospital.

EURO on at the present time: 9 July

Czechoslovakia 2-0 France(Bubník 58, Pavlovič 88) 1960 third-place play-off, MarseilleDefeated 3-Zero by the Soviet Union within the final 4, the Czechoslovaks mounted a formidable response towards the hosts, who themselves had surrendered a 4-2 result in be eradicated by Yugoslavia within the semi-finals. Superior for giant durations, Czechoslovakia prevailed due to second-half targets from Vlastimil Bubník and Ladislav Pavlovič. It proved a defining fixture in Marseille, with seven gamers from both facet by no means capped once more. Robert Siatka and goalkeeper Jean Taillandier have been handed French debuts in th... UEFA.com - News

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France 5-2 Iceland(Giroud 12 59, Pogba 20, Payet 43, Griezmann 45; Sigthórsson 56, B. Bjarnason 84)2016 quarter-finals, ParisFrance edged nearer to a UEFA EURO 2016 triumph on residence soil with an emphatic victory which ended Iceland's fairy-tale run to the final eight. Les Bleus raced right into a 4-Zero lead earlier than half-time. Olivier Giroud broke the impasse, hammering in a left-footed effort after a superb cross from Blaise Matuidi, and struck once more when Paul Pogba headed in an Antoine Griezmann nook. Dimitri Payet drilled in a 3rd earlier than Griezmann acquired in on the act with a pleasant chip. Kolbeinn... UEFA.com