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Nice to have a budget surplus to distribute, eh?
“When the mostly sleep-walking citizenry begins howling in great numbers, the well-pensioned politicians will bring out the WMD they carefully hid in the 1970 constitution and fire a salvo of the rule of law into the taxpayers. The well-pensioned judges will enforce the strike, and any unruly protests by survivors will be squelched by the remaining well-pensioned police. The conflict of interests apparent in this Third World arrangement are blinding, but they will be ignored.”
Did Hillary give him that line?
The group claims the developers of the center have pulled a “bait and switch,” saying the center will not be a true presidential library because it will not hold the archive of President Barack Obama.
The United State’s Supreme Court on Monday opened the door for legal sports betting in the states when it struck down a 1992 law that banned sports books pretty much anywhere outside of Nevada.
By Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon.
Comment: Inexcusable. Reporters must force him to say what he stands for. How much revenue does HE think needs to be raised and how? What will he negotiate for?
SB 2838, as it has been amended, now provides that recruiting firms cannot be used to hire substitute teachers during a teacher strike. If the school doesn’t have enough teachers to continue educating students during a strike – tough luck.
In other words, a pro-student bill was converted into a pro-union bill that hinders educational opportunities for students during teacher strikes.
“The Russians attacked Illinois, and now authorities vow to protect the state.”
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Chicago’s parking meter system raked in $134.2 million last year, putting private investors on pace to recoup their entire $1.16 billion investment by 2021 with 62 years to go in the lease, the latest annual audit shows. Four underground, city-owned parking garages took in $34 million in 2017, while the privatized Chicago Skyway generated $99.9 million in cash, separate audits of those assets show.
Not a penny of those revenues, once a mainstay for city government, went to ease the avalanche of tax increases imposed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to solve the
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