Monthly Archives: August 2004

We don’t need no affordable housing

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A group opposing “fair share” housing legislation has sprung up on the North Shore, according to the Tribune (in an article by Trine Tsouderos, who covers development in the suburbs). Rob Faurot from Wilmette, president of New Trier Neighbors, says: “Our answer is if you want those sorts of things and the home values in the town that you live are too expensive . . . the options are you have to move somewhere else or you have to make more money.”

Oh, sure. It’s really easy to just “make more money.” If that’s the case, then, Mr. Faurot, can we raise your taxes so that the rest of us can shoulder that social burden for you?

More vocabulary lessons for Japanese visitors

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In the vein of Yoshihiro Hattori‘s shooting death in 1992 when he didn’t understand the word “freeze” comes this, from the Trib:

A 60-year-old Japanese passenger on a flight leaving O’Hare International Airport caused a bomb scare late Sunday afternoon when a passenger saw him write the words “suicide bomb” on a piece of paper… the Japanese national, who was on the plane on business, was only writing words he didn’t understand so he could look them up later with a dictionary, O’Hare police Sgt. Philip Deerig said.