 On Aug. 16 an explosive news story became the prologue for this, the first weekend of the 2011 college football season. The top two paragraphs could hardly have been more perilous for big-money sports reeling from campus scandals coast to coast. | About those jobs, jobs, jobs To hear many Illinois public officials tell it, the state is creating jobs at a brisk clip. Dozens, hundreds, even thousands of jobs. We have the press releases that attest to the successes, as Gov. Pat Quinn touted in the waning days of August: |  | Rick Perry grabs a 'third rail' I sometimes wonder whether politicians actually write the books they release. In the case of Texas Gov. Rick Perry's book, I sometimes wonder whether he even bothered to read it. | | Squabbling over sales taxes The Regional Transportation Authority didn't mince words in its lawsuit accusing Kankakee and Channahon of helping businesses avoid sales taxes that are supposed to pay for public transit. The RTA says the two cities, both just outside the transit agency's service area, facilitate a "scheme" under which businesses set up "sham sales offices" to escape paying higher sales taxes in the Chicago metropolitan area. | |  | |
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