#Elizabeth Tisdahl
State recycling program halts Evanston ban on plastic bags
Illinois state law is trying to implement a plastic bag recycling program and stop Evanston from banning or taxing them. In yet another really fascinating drama of local politics, the bill is expected to pass the state House after already having gone through the Senate. The bill would plan to reduce waste from plastic bags by examining how they could be recycled, but it would prevent cities like Evanston from independent entanglements with plastic bags. It looks like the future Evanston ban on plastic bags isn’t gonna happen, at least for now — thank god your obsessive, unnecessary CVS trips are safe! Sadly, Mayor Tisdahl is going to have to look for yet another thing to shut out of Evanston — she’s already got brothels and the Keg, plastic bags just seemed like a natural third step.
There’s still hope: Keg owner appeals license revocation
Northwestern students, there is hope for the future! No, the economy is still struggling and all non-McCormick students are still probably going to be unemployed after graduation. But on the bright side, the owner of the Keg has appealed the license revocation! Owner Tom Mignon will battle the fearsome Evanston mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl, who has a lot of ammo against our beloved TKOE: 147 citations since 2005, 17 arrests made on January 5 for underage drinking, and supposed Keg-operated social media that supports underage drinking. Observers suggest that Mignon will build his case on the fact that the Keg does not control the social media outlets Tisdahl has cited. Good luck, bonne chance, buona fortuna, buena suerte! We just hope, if Mignon wins his case, our den of underage drinking won’t have tighter restrictions and security. We really cant afford to buy a better fake.
Mayor Tisdahl tries to be trendy, plans Twitter Town Hall
Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl announced that Evanston will hold it’s first “Twitter Town Hall” meeting this month. Ok Tisdahl, we appreciate you’re trying to stay current, but let’s cool it with Twitter, before you get yourself in a tizzy. As if the 111 alcohol-related citations issued since 2005 weren’t enough proof the Keg deserved a time-out, Tisdahl also chose to cite the Keg’s fake twitter account in the revocation order. Tizzy, before you start embracing Twitter, understand that there are such things as fake accounts (unless @ETisdahl is really you?!). Residents of Evanston can submit questions beginning Feb. 8 at twitter.com/CityofEvanston. To participate in the discussion, residents will be asked to use the hashtag #askTisdahl. Here’s to hoping that whoever is behind the hilarious @ETisdahl account decides to #askTisdahl a question.
Tisdahl’s pot plan seems somehow possible
Perhaps in an effort to win back the hearts of college students, Evanston’s Human Services committee is in favor of a change to the city’s marijuana law. The plan proposed by Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl seems to be quickly coming to fruition. The amendment would move any cases of possession fewer than 10 grams of marijuana under the jurisdiction of the city’s Administrative Adjudication court rather than the county judicial system. Essentially, you get sent to the people who deal with parking tickets. While officials argue that this will keep troubled youths’ records clear and thus help them get jobs once they pass through their rebellious phase, we’re still convinced the city’s just trying to make nice with substance-friendly students.
Evanston mayor wants to lessen number of pot arrests
Evanston mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl recently proposed an ordinance where people found with less than 10 grams of marijuana will be fined between $50 and $500, instead of facing up to six months of jail time. In the current system, students arrested for pot possession have to deal with a criminal record for the rest of their life. But if the measure is passed, future employers will never know the details of certain lakefill/sketchy rooftop shenanigans.
The city of Evanston’s press release regarding the brothel law yesterday included the usual formal language one would expect from the government. But the responses Weinberg junior Taylor Barrett received after writing e-mails Tuesday to the mayor and city aldermen show a side of city government we don’t often see. Check out the sometimes-sympathetic, gender-confused, and downright absurd responses she received after the jump. City government can be a frightening place. more 
In the aftermath of Brothel-gate, a look at what really happened
If you have whiplash from the past 48 hours, well, you’re not alone: From Tuesday morning, when the Daily first broke Brothel-gate, to Wednesday night, when Burgie Howard used his mass e-mailing powers to inform us that we won’t be getting evicted, after all, we’ve all been on an emotional roller coaster—and by ‘emotional,’ I mean angry. Petitions have been made (two, by my count). Auditoriums have been filled. Public urination has been threatened. And now, as we reel in the outrage that was either misplaced (so, Evanston, you’re saying you weren’t going to enforce the ordinance?) or wildly effective (Morty, Tisdahl, you make a good team), we’re left trying to sort through the confusions and contradictions of these two days, in which fighting for our community (and commute) reminded us that we have one. After the jump, the facts. more
The Googleverse can now be seen on a map: At the beginning of the month, Kansas’s capital, formerly Topeka, re-christened itself Google. Why? more
In Tuesday’s Daily, Brittney Wong ventured to a place where Daily reporters—or NU students in general—rarely go: West Evanston. The neighborhood on the other side of Ridge, specifically the 5th Ward, is Evanston’s own other side of the tracks. Wong describes how the city had been segregated across racial lines since its founding in the mid-1800s. One community organizer, who grew up in Evanston, likened the segregation to the South Africa apartheid. more
Evanston aldermen, Mayor Tisdahl, and City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz spent their Sunday afternoon at a pregame for the basketball game at the Schapiros’ place. (Was booze involved? The Daily does not say.) In what was likely as awkward and staged as this summer’s infamous Obama “Beer Summit,” the luncheon was allegedly planned by Morty as a thank you for the warm reception his family received in the fall. more
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