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* Sneed: Rahm Emanuel’s fast feet
* Emanuel Casts Ballot, Encourages Early Voting
* Brown: Rickey Hendon needs to broaden image if he runs for mayor
* Marin: Letter delivers early hit against Dart in mayor’s race
* McQueary: Meeks avoiding property taxes
* Steinberg: Will voters buy idea of Meeks as part-time mayor?
* Kass: Fear-mongering over Meeks’ preaching smacks of double standard
* Manny Flores endorses Gery Chico in Chicago mayor race
* The weekend mayoral line: Dart, Chico, money
* Washington: Mayoral contest energizes voters
* Brown: Where city needs some rage against machine
* Hoosiers facing hefty bills for missed Illinois tolls
Trying to clear a two-year backlog of violation notices, the Illinois Tollway says it is willing to forgive some hefty fines accrued by Indiana motorists who didn’t pay their tolls.
Of the nearly $7 million in outstanding tolls and fines racked up by some 116,000 Indiana motorists, the tollway said it’s willing to settle in many but not all cases for getting at least the tolls back, about $1.5 million.
As the bills go out, some drivers in the Hoosier state are getting eye-popping notices, saying they owe between $14,000 and $25,000, the tollway says.
* City to hire up to 200 more cops next year
* The ABCs of ex-Stroger aide Carla Oglesby’s case
Carla Oglesby is charged with theft, money laundering and official misconduct while on the county payroll as Todd Stroger’s deputy chief of staff. […]
And, although Alvarez held open the possibility that others might later be charged, the sources said many of those referred to in the criminal complaint might have had only an unwitting role.
Alvarez would not say whether Stroger — who lost in last winter’s Democratic Party primary to Ald. Toni Preckwinkle and is set to leave office after next month’s general election — is a target of the continuing investigation. […]
Public Official B: David Ramos, who is executive director of the Cook County Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. […]
Public Official C: Eugene Mullins, who has been a friend of Stroger’s since childhood and now heads Stroger’s county public relations office.[…]
Public Official D: Chris Geovanis, a Stroger spokeswoman who reports to Mullins.
* Pay hikes at RTA, Metra and Pace — as recession loomed
The raises came despite the fact that as early as August 2008, area transit agencies knew the revenue outlook was not as bright as they had hoped after the January transit bailout, with sales tax revenues which fund transit 9 percent lower than expected, and free rides for seniors bleeding revenue.
Only at the CTA did payroll fall from 2008 to 2009.
* Arlington Park president resigns
Arnold will serve as a consultant for Churchill Downs, the racing company that owns Arlington Park, for a transitory period.
Arnold has been president of the park and its off-track betting facilities since April 2006.
* Sneed: Weis strafed at luncheon for wearing police uniform?
* Dart ‘feels horrible’ about raid on elderly couple
* Cook Co. Sheriff apologizes for mistaken raid
* CUB: You’re wasting money on some mobile phone plans
CUB issued a report called “Dodging The Wireless Industry’s Pitfalls to alert consumers to problems that cost users of CUB’s free online comparison service an average of $359 extra per year.
Culprits include paying for extras like insurance, directory assistance or even roadside assistance, which CUB Executive Director David Kolata said are a waste.
“And paying for minutes that are not used has become an epidemic, Kolata said during an interview.
* Report: Most Illinois Cell Phone Users Overpaying
* Sleepy Hollow to vote on sales tax bump
The increase, if approved, would push the sales tax rate in the village from 7.5 percent to 7.75 percent the same as the rate in the Kane County portion of Elgin and lower than the rates in Carpentersville, West Dundee and the Kane County portion of East Dundee.
* DuPage courthouse to be named for Hyde
The board also aims to recognize his unsuccessful effort to bring a federal courthouse and office building to DuPage County, said County Board Chairman Robert Schillerstrom.
* Cronin talks of consolidating forest preserve with DuPage Co.
* Aurora mayor: I’m opposed to bad public housing
* Evanston Aldermen to Decide on Wind Farm Review Committee
* Gurnee works to amend political sign ordinance to fit new state law
* Des Plaines weighs freezing property tax levy
The proposed 1.95 percent tax increase is expected to generate $450,000 to cover the city’s obligations toward the rising costs of police and fire pensions, which by state statute must be fully funded by 2033. No other tax or fee increases are proposed in the $97.9 million budget for the 2011 calendar year.
* Libertyville gets new police chief
* [Lake] County judge retiring after 25 years
After 25 years on the bench, Lake County Circuit Judge Raymond McKoski of Lindenhurst announced he will retire when his term expires in December.
* Mundelein weighing moratorium on video gambling
Trustee Robin Meier had proposed the addition, and the other board members agreed it was a good idea. The matter could come before the board again at its next meeting in two weeks.
* Moline aldermen will tackle city budget at meeting tonight
* Adams County Finance Committee looks at proposed 4.5 percent in budget cuts
* Bloomington’s finances on the mend
* Bloomington could raise tax levy for pension funds
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Tuesday, Oct 12, 10 @ 11:28 am
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Pretty slick move by Emanuel voting early in Chicago as a way to address the (bogus) residency issue.
But the real question is: Was he born in Hawaii or Kenya? There is no record of his birth in the papers in Honolulu or Nairobi. Coincidence? I think not.
And can he prove he’s not a Muslim (can anyone)? I’ve heard he’s spent time in the Middle East.
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Oct 12, 10 @ 1:16 pm