Group that ripped Emanuel loses prominent board member – Crain’s

Leaving the board of Truth in Accounting is Rick Jasculca, a political consultant and publicist and prominent Democrat. He says he learned of the organization’s decision to give Chicago finances an F in an email shortly before the report was issued and says he was “disturbed” that it left out details of what Emanuel has done to fill a pension hole that was “decades in the making.”

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Why the gas tax is running out of road – Crain’s

Illinois adds 19 cents to the pump price of each gallon of gas to underwrite road work, a fee that hasn’t changed in 27 years, even though inflation has cut the purchasing power by half. And with cars getting ever better gas mileage, the so-called Motor Fuel Tax reaps less today ($1.28 billion) to fund repairs than it did in

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