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Three months ago, new Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi sent a letter to more than 1,100 homeowners in New Trier Township all but promising them a surprise property tax break because they live on a floodplain.
It’s now clear they’re not going to get it.
Summary and audio linked here.
Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Summary and audio linked here.
Illinois paid the price for embracing Fauci’s “science.” Here’s the retrospective.
Podcast link is here.
Luckily for most of the cook county taxpayers this is nothing more than a North Shore pillow fight. The idea that the assessor can discern the reduced value a propety carries from being in a flood plain with the myriad factors that go into a buyer and seller agreeing on a price.is ridiculous. Next up: reducing North Shore values because they’re not close enough to a Starbucks.