Fight off the November chill with this extra-sizzlin' edition of Unreal (once we put our clothes back on, we'll check in with the Sanford-Brown Indians, pick up a few local papers and have our groceries bagged by inmates)
"This project is moving along great, and that's because of the Labor Union and all the organized trades that have all played their part." Wait a second! That's the radio ad for the labor union! I've been brainwashed. Could it be because the radio spot runs every ten minutes during Cardinals games!? But hey, I got to hand it to someone. The highway is moving along rapidly. What was a dirt ravine for months and months (photos here) suddenly looks like an interstate.In this photo from yesterday
So many Ass Clowns this week. So little time. You know how to play: Vote for the local newsmaker you think made the biggest idiot of themselves this week. And the nominees...1. Kenneth Gladney: Gladney is the man whose attorney David Brown says was selling flags at a health care forum last month when he was beat up by union members. (View a video of Gladney's purported beating here.) After walking away from the scuffle, Gladney showed up two days later in a wheelchair at a Tea Party protest
Four. That's the number of state union workers at the Fairmount Park racetrack in Collinsville who are at odds with the Illinois Racing Board.Three. That's how many days of racing the track will be limited to in 2010 -- April 27, 30, and May 1 -- if the dispute isn't resolved by February 1.Hundreds. That's how many other non-union employees, trainers, owners, jockeys and track personnel will likely lose their livelihoods if the track's season is cut so drastically.It doesn't take a gambling geni
Just got off the phone with Lanny Brooks, director of the Illinois Horseman's Benevolent and Protective Association. He confirmed the early reports that Fairmount Park will indeed host 52 days of horse racing in 2010, a full schedule.Image ViaThe announcement was made official at a 1:30 p.m. press conference at the track in Collinsville.Until today, it seemed as though a dispute between the Illinois Racing Board and four union workers at the track would result in just three days of live horse
Wikimedia CommonsNegotiations between the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's corporate parent and the local union that represents the paper's staff have so deteriorated that union officials have agreed to free up $500,000 in union assets for tarring and feathering. The St. Louis Newspaper Guild is now seeking P-D employees willing to deploy a variety of smear tactics against Lee Enterprises, from badmouthing the Iowa-based company in the Twitter-verse, to pressuring P-D advertisers to come out i
