A fair income tax for Illinois? Dude, that’s so not cool!
Lyman Stone, Transylvania University, class of ‘13. Capitolfax is reporting that a group called the Tax Foundation will be holding a press conference today to oppose efforts to create a fair tax in Illinois. Currently Illinois is one of the few states in the country that has a flat tax, which means that Rahm and Rauner’s best bud, Ken Griffin (Illinois’ riches man according to Forbes), pays th
All is lost.
. I said at the time that the Robert Redford movie, All is Lost, was among the worst films I have ever seen. Even worse that Pooty Tang. Which I actually never saw, but love writing the name. It was so obviously a set-up for the aging Redford to get a late-career Oscar nomination other than another one of those honorary ones. He’s never received an acting Oscar. Only for directing the endlessly d
Fighting Rahm and The Hawk to stop Chicago charters.
Sue Sadlowski Garza, Kristine Mayle, Sarah Chambers and Nathan Goldbaum pull an all-nighter outside CPS HQ. The Polar Vortex is rolling through Chicago again and the temperature dropped to minus four degrees last night. But that didn’t keep parents and union teachers from camping outside of Chicago Public School offices over night. Today the board will follow Rahm’s directive and approve 21 ne
1-21-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Coffee with Aaron Goldstein. Candidate for the 40th Illinois House seat, Aaron Goldstein. Former Machine Democratic Boss Dick Mell gave his daughter the 40th State Rep seat on Chicago’s north-west side. Machine bosses do that kind of thing. Just like Cook County Democratic Chairman Joe Berrios. He ga
