  Proviso Probe  Saturday, June 28, 2008  baby birds squeak for
money in Maywood  On Thursday, June 26, Cook County Board
President Todd Stroger and Maywood Village President Henderson
Yarbrough led a meeting that had the nominal subject of
community violence. The cynical perspective of the meeting would
be to say that county employees were preening to justify their
jobs and a number of community members were asking for money for
their own ideas about how to reduce violence.  Almost all the
discussions about violence concentrated on youth violence.
Proviso Township, which includes Maywood, already spends vast
money on its children. We have this program called the public
schools.  The public schools serving Maywood are horribly
mismanaged. No amount of putting church ministers, deacons and
local busybodies on payroll to implement “violence reduction
programs” is going to change that the schools suck.  The Maywood
community has consistently voted to put corrupt people in charge
of the schools. And these elected