Local Issues
Daily Herald | Lake Co. forest preserve wants to buy more land
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008Daily Herald | Lake Co. forest preserve wants to buy more land
Well, it looks like $170 million over the past several referenda isn’t enough for the Lake County Forest Preserve District. They want to do another referenda that exceeds the last three successful referenda combined, oh, but it won’t raise your taxes.
First of all, [...]
And still they spend…
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008The CTA wants more money from the Chicago/Cook County/Illinois taxpayer, and they want it NOW! Even though the CTA’s own numbers show an amazing windfall throughout the past few years, they can’t seem to controll themselves when it comes to putting thier greasy fat fingers in our pockets. And the worst [...]
Link re-elected as county Dem chair :: News Sun :: News
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Link re-elected as county Dem chair :: News Sun :: News
Well it’s getting dang hard for Republicans to get any love, even in their once mighty bastion of Lake County. In today’s Daily Herald they did manage to rate a story from their meeting at Midlane Country Club but that article didn’t make the March [...]
Cook tax increase has county border towns steaming — chicagotribune.com
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Cook tax increase has county border towns steaming — chicagotribune.com
Cook County is the cradle of the Democratic tax and spend philosophies in Illinois. With a new county sales tax and a statewide transportation sales tax the new sales tax rate in Cook County will sky to over 10%. Moves like this simply kill [...]