Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE
Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas is taking initiative to make local government more transparent. Transparency is a powerful tool for Cook County residents to keep their local government in check.[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Taxes
Broadening the tax base and lowering the rate, the current whiz-bang solution to both the government debt problem and the recession, has the support of Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) from[...]
The front page story in today’s (4/21/2011) Chicago Tribune, “Climate change: More intense rains could swamp Chicago’s aging sewers,” by Michael Hawthorne, is mostly of interest for its entertainment value.[...]
Clarence Page, of the Chicago Tribune, is using Christine O’Donnell as a backdrop to defend the concept of the “elite.” What’s so bad about “elites?”: That’s why O’Donnell’s desperate attempt[...]
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