All Stories from May 17, 2012 (Change date)
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Tax exemptions difficult to navigateMay 17, 2012 5:01 am - Cook County’s property tax exemptions are meant to help reduce homeowners property tax burdens, but they are much like Chicago’s weather. Just wait a minute and it will ...
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Balancing budget is no radical ideaMay 17, 2012 5:01 am - I find it interesting that President Obama is blasting the GOP as “radical” for their ideas on how to balance the budget. What is radical is the idea of no more free rid...
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Write legislators about pension ‘fix’May 17, 2012 5:01 am - Gov. Pat Quinn’s pension reform proposal provides, in part, that school districts and community colleges pay more toward their teachers’ pensions. On May 2, House Speak...
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Kudos, Lombard, on aggregation dealMay 17, 2012 5:01 am - It is all too common in our day-to-day life that we tend to focus on things that go wrong. Yet, from start to finish, Lombard’s handling of electricity aggregation was a...
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Silicon slummingMay 17, 2012 5:01 am - The Victorian era gave birth to a very unpleasant custom called slumming. Parties of swells in London and New York would descend on impoverished neighborhoods as a form ...
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Dawn Patrol: Man killed after going after cops, they sayMay 17, 2012 3:01 pm - Man killed by police tried to run officers down, they say Des Plaines police say the 44-year-old man who was shot and killed by an officer Sunday tried to run down the t...
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Geneva taxpayers sold bill of goodsMay 17, 2012 4:46 am - This is nuts! Was this your reaction when you opened your property tax bill? Why did your taxes increase so much? The answer is, “It is all about the schools.” Or better...
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No more bailoutsMay 17, 2012 4:46 am - No more bailouts ever! If your company made a mistake — too bad. Suck it up and swallow it the same way every American citizen has to. No more taking our Social Security...
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‘Entitlement’ is wrong word for what we’ve earnedMay 17, 2012 1:01 am - I do not like the word entitlement. To me, it sounds as though the people are asking for a gift from the government. In fact, I (we) have paid and continue to pay for so...
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Scouting Northwest sectional tennisMay 17, 2012 4:53 pm - By Mike Garofola Daily Herald Correspondent Boys tennis / Scouting sectionals It’s already been a wild two weeks in the tennis world, which was turned upside down with a...