Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Two Dot Orgs in One

The ubiquitous Illinois PIRG (aka Public Interest Research Group) announced that it will split into two organizations: Environment Illinois and Illinois PIRG. The former will focus on environmental issues (website here) and the latter on consumer ones (website here).

2 comments:

MK said...

Great, I bet that means twice as many teenagers with clipboards blocking up the sidewalk.

J R said...

Yeah, no kidding. It also means it's probably time to double check that your caller id is working full blast. I just don't know why so many non-profits rely on telemarketing and thereby assasinate their goodwill. PIRG is one of the worst, I've found.