Sean Morrison Letter to the Editor/ Cook County fuel tax
A 66% tax increase to Cook County’s special use gasoline and fuel tax has been proposed by Commissioner Richard Boykin. This proposed tax increase has been earmarked to fund several...
Walgreens Just Got Into the Marijuana Business!
By Jeff Siegel | Tuesday, May 3, 2016 Wealth Daily
Last year, it did $103.4 billion in net sales.
With more than 8,000 stores in all 50 states, it's actually the largest drug retail chain...
Protect yourself from this
By Geoffrey Pike | Friday, April 29, 2016
The Federal Reserve just wrapped up its latest meeting this week. As expected, there was no change in its target rate range of 0.25% to 0.5%.
With all of the...
Editors Note:
Staff expects raises each year as well as more money for adding responsibility. Each non-union employee seems to feel they need more because they do more or because they have done a good job for a long time....
Posted on April 26, 2016 by Sam Rolley
Federal regulations tally $4 trillion in costs
A new study out from George Mason University’s Mercatus Center reveals how federal regulations are keeping the economy from reaching its full potential.
The researchers looked at...
The Edgar County Watch Dogs
May 5th at 7:00 pm
AFP Office at 924 N. State Street, Lockport
The Edgar County Watch Dogs will be speaking to us on how to be citizens watch dogs. They will explain how to understand local...
MAY 15, 2013 @ 09:57 AM Forbes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33i_BAhuiE0
Many observers have pondered if the United States is following the same troubled path as Argentina. In the 1940s, Argentina’s Juan Domingo Perón used government agencies for political gain and created a...
Editors Note: Clinton OK taking guns from good people, defends rights of bad people. Makes excuses for imorality, Lies about Benghazzi, lies about emails, From Chicago Politics like Obama, Friends with Bill Ayers. Not my choice for any office....
Editors note:
The Democrats have controlled Illinois for far too long and Chicago over 50 years. Doing the same bad policy and changing the name to sound good results in the same failures that make Illinois the most croupt, taxed,...
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Mapping the $100,000+ Illinois Teacher Pensions Costing Taxpayers Nearly $1.0 Billion
APR 22, 2016 Forbes
New numbers show that the 7,499 ‘highly compensated,’ six-figure school administrator/teacher retirees cost IL taxpayers nearly $1 billion per year. But in just six years,...
