Joe Van Duyne works for the City of Joliet. While on what a reasonable person would think is City of Joliet time, he parks his city truck at the County Bldg. 302 N. Chicago and attends the County Board...
IVES: WHAT DOES $400 MILLION BUY IN ILLINOIS? By State Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) -  Illinois Review 9/14/2016 Anyone paying attention in Illinois knows government operations are being held together with promissory notes, shoe laces and chewing gum. Most also probably...
Posted on September 12, 2016 by Bob Livingston 15 years after 9/11; perpetual war and liberties lost Yesterday marked the 15th anniversary of the 21st Century version of the day that will live in infamy.  On September 11, 2001, two aircraft...
Government jobs growth continues while Illinois’ private sector suffers from burdensome taxes and regulations. Government taking too much money from the private economy through taxation and imposing too many regulations has in large part driven Illinois’ sluggish economic growth. As...

America under attack!

America under attack! Posted on September 8, 2016 by Bob LivingstonViews: 2,392 144 Shares I began publishing my monthly newsletter The Bob Livingston Letter™ (subscription required) in 1969. The following is the first column I wrote in the days after the September 11, 2001...
The Unemployable Graduate Crisis and How We Can Fix It Published on September 8, 2016 Alistair Cox   Around the world, millions of students have recently graduated from university and college and for many, September often marks a milestone month as they...
FOOD FIGHT IN CHICAGO September 6, 2016 Dan Proft and Austin Berg talk AFSCME, Rahm's "crack down" on food trucks and the mass exodus out of Chicago. Podcast: https://www.illinoispolicy.org/radio/food-fight-in-chicago/ Dan Proft and Austin Berg break down what comes next in the state’s partial impasse...
The lazy and the loser Posted on September 9, 2016 by Ben CrystalViews: 1,864 I’m well aware that President Barack Obama doesn’t think particularly highly of me. After all, I’m a white guy who believes in both the Savior and my...
New software snafu complicates Will County assessments Susan DeMar LaffertyContact ReporterDaily Southtown Problems with Will County recorder's software system vexing township assessors May 7, 2015   Township assessors in Will County say problems stemming from a computer software upgrade in the recorder's office...
President Zuma, the current South Africa leader.                     President Zuma, is the current leader of South Africa.  He has purchased the most expensive aircraft in the world for his own personal use and those of his hirelings and underlings. BOEING 747-8 for...

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