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The state budget impasse didn’t stop newly elected Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza from purchasing a $32,000 used SUV as part of her department’s fleet — paid in full by public dollars to a central Illinois dealership.
All of Illinois’ neighboring states have at least ten times the rate of growth of single-family home construction than the Land of Lincoln. A home builder says property taxes and over-regulation are to blame.
The rest of CPS’ school year — aka budget year — is short. The district’s finances are gravely out of whack. And a huge teachers pension payment comes due at the end of June. This is ugly.
By: Chris Robling* New Trier Township High School has been a national model at least since World War II. Today, unexpectedly, it models the nation’s divisions over how to discuss – and act on – inequities based on race. Few public high schools can compare to New Trier’s past – or present. Life Magazine’s October, 1950 Special Issue “U.S. Schools, They Face a Crisis,” put a New Trier girl on its cover and presented the school as a Valhalla of secondary education, the very national example North Shore parents had hoped would keep their kids at home,
Comment: Bummer. DNAInfo is great.
“We need a People’s Agenda…. Investing in our people means raising revenue so that communities have the resources needed to thrive.” Comment: Problem is, there will be no people left.
Comment: Just a reminder that these “budget” numbers are fiction. The real deficit is far worse, as explained here.
Is Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposed budget balanced? Democrats have said “no” for the past two years and now are repeating the same charge, but Rauner defends his plans.
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