Articles filed under Referendum
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Endorsement: Yes on appointment of Bloomingdale clerkOct 21, 2012 5:00 am - Bloomingdale residents will be asked whether their village clerk should be appointed rather than elected, beginning next April. State law allows village boards to make t...
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Yes to privatize trash pickup in Rolling MeadowsOct 21, 2012 5:00 am - Rolling Meadows residents love their garbage pickup. The old couch goes away without extra fees or phone calls, and the crews act extra responsibly. For years residents ...
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Endorsement: Yes on electrical aggregationOct 21, 2012 5:00 am - After floating successful referendums in the spring, many suburbs have already begun saving their residents money on their utility rates through electrical aggregation. ...
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Endorsement: Yes on Arlington Heights parks proposalOct 19, 2012 5:00 am - We thought Arlington Heights residents shouldn’t pass up the opportunity last spring to leverage low borrowing and construction costs to make needed renovation work at s...
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Endorsement: Yes to East Dundee fire stationOct 19, 2012 5:00 am - The East Dundee Fire Protection District, which serves the village and extends east into Hoffman Estates and South Barrington, is asking voters for $5.5 million to build...
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We already told the park district ‘no’Oct 19, 2012 5:00 am - It seems like we the people just fended off one obscene attempt by the park district to stick us with $48 million in completely unneeded buildings in March, and barely f...
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Endorsement: No on McHenry County change in governmentOct 19, 2012 5:00 am - Clarification: Subsequent to Jack Franks refusing to answer whether he would be interested in running for county executive, he emphatically said that he would not. This ...
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Wauconda residents hear details, speak out on Lake Michigan water referendumOct 18, 2012 5:01 pm - Told they face “the most important decision” in Wauconda’s history, residents at a town-hall meeting about switching to Lake Michigan water unleashed a torrent of questi...
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McHenry County vote could appoint a ‘czar’Oct 16, 2012 2:25 pm - Editor’s Note: In a conversation after this article ran, Jacqueline Byers, director of research for the National Association of Counties, tempered her original statement...
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Questions and answers on the state pension referendumOct 14, 2012 5:00 am - SPRINGFIELD — After a period of dire warnings and scandal, voters will decide next month whether to change the Illinois Constitution so that it’s harder to improve retir...