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Senator Don Harmon, a Democrat from Oak Park, says medical marijuana could help individuals using and/or abusing opioids. He’s behind a plan to give that option.
Comment: Nothing beats hiding bad news by releasing it on a holiday eve.
Randall O’Toole, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, said people shouldn’t get their hopes up for 110 mile-per-hour service – not in 2018, and not ever.
“Bold,” he says.
Local officials and union leaders have employed a near-perfect method to pressure residents into accepting higher taxes year after year: Sell the idea that communities around them are more generous than their own.
In the Chicago City Council discussion Tuesday about the budget it passed, Mayor Emanuel was asked what the plan is to deal with big looming pension payment spikes. We have never run away” from doing what’s needed and “when we have to come to that moment…will answer that question.” That’s according to a Tweet by The Bond Buyer’s Yvette Shields. In other words, he doesn’t have an answer. Nobody does. What that’s referring to is the up-ramp in taxpayer pension contributions that the city faces starting next year, haven gotten the legislation it wanted this year to kick the can
There really is at least some good news.
With an expected 5,000 new rental units in the first quarter of 2018, some developers are offering up to three months rent free to lure new tenants.
Comment: Like other progressive income tax proponents, this author doesn’t have any numbers about how much more revenue would be raised and how much it would cost the top 10% to 20% to pay for tax cut for others and for shouldering all Illinois’ fiscal problems. Nor does he mention that revenue from this wouldn’t arrive for at least another five years.
Trump on Tuesday tapped Barbara Stewart, an Adler Planetarium trustee who once worked for former Illinois GOP Lt Gov. Bob Kustra, to be the Chief Executive Officer for the Corporation of National Community Service.
Connecticut and Chicago borrow a debt trick from Puerto Rico.
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