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In Dolton, which shares a border with Chicago, about 15% of families live in poverty. Burdened with some of the highest property taxes in Cook County, homeowners feel the full brunt of the tax burden, since there’s little commercial or industrial development in town. Village Mayor Tiffany Henyard arrived at a March village board meeting dressed like the Wesley Snipes character in the 1991 film, “New Jack City,” crack cocaine kingpin Nino Brown, who was notorious for his brutal way of doing business. Plus, she brought a DJ.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
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She is a poster child for good government workers.
Pathetically Tiffany doesn’t have to even pretend to be ‘new machine’ equity hustler, she’s just an old school machine crook
That lady should be a model for Spandex!
Why isn’t Illinois AG Kwame Raoul investigating this woman? Nope, he’d rather hash-out some more decades-old Catholic sex-abuse scandal then pursue ongoing corruption. Must have taken lessons from Lisa Madigan.
Looks like Dolton multi-tasker mayor-superintendent efficiently bought herself lots of good-will, and two elected offices, for mere cost of some gas cards for her district voters. Amazing what Dolton residents are willing to enable, willing to support.
Here is some of the staff at one of Dolton Dist 148. Notice they have a bully expert/mentor coordinator/lots of PC Techs/more assistants to someone/custodial engineer (used to be called a janitor) and on and on. There is also Dolton Dist 149 which has another super and more staff. Lots of staff. How much staff do they need and they wonder why property taxes are so high. The only person who needed a staff was Moses.
https://www.district148.net/people
These kids have a lot of needs it sounds like. Computers need to be maintained, schools need to be cleaned and support staff is needed.
Why is it that every school district regardless of the number of students needs a superintendent and support staff? There are schools like Rondout 72 that has approx 142 students and have a super. Middle/High school as long as they have a number behind the word District has their own super. Why can’t 1 super handle most schools within a county? In Florida they have district units comprising of 40K students. Much more efficient with less administrative bloat. You have mentioned you abide in the Constitution is says “Education Shall be Free K-12. If we follow the letter of the… Read more »
Wow, you really have an intriguing idea there? I doubt anyone has filed a legal case to that effect. Freddy, you could be our hero here! Maybe your name could be immortalized in the history of IL. Any lawyers here wanting to make a name for yourself, too?
Thank You. I think a small statue about the size of Colossus of Rhodes would do fine. In all seriousness there is too much top heavy administrators in public schools. Belvidere has 4 or 5 assistant supers all getting paid $125K or so. What do they do? What do they teach? Nothing. The private schools here have a small amount of administrators and the kids are light years ahead of the public school students. I did post an article awhile back on Rockford dist 205. Here it is for those who have not seen it. https://www.wrex.com/news/13-investigates/13-investigates-rps-205-teachers-say-failing-students-still-get-moved-on-to-next-grade/article_8b8b9850-7042-52d4-8301-530f0b8293c2.html This does not happen… Read more »
100%. If you want to know why schools are doing poorly, simply calculate the bureaucrat to student ratio. The higher the number, the lower the results. Why? Because every bureaucrat is a politician who doesn’t have the personality to get elected, but needs to feel important so he/she continually comes up with nonsense hoops for principals and teachers to jump through, taking away time from actually being able to do our jobs. Many of these bureaucrats were teachers for about a half a second, but either were incompetent or lazy, and realized they could get a better deal with less… Read more »
She’s simply attempting to elevate Doltons standing. She didn’t think hosting the lap dance
halll of fame reflected their values. Ice rinks.
At least she didn’t arrive dressed like Blade.
It’s like a Dave Chappelle skit:(
Have you ever seen the one…never mind.
Hilarious article showing just more of Illinois normalness. Naturally of course the politician has two jobs, two pensions perhaps, and as head of the township 200,000 per year salary she demonstrates why Illinois doesn’t need townships anymore.
Pay your taxes Illinoisans…your politicians love you for it (to your face anyway)