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* ComEd says rate freeze could prompt suit

“To us, the picture is very clear,” ComEd Senior Vice President Bob McDonald said. “If, in fact, this rate freeze legislation were to become law, and we were not able to stop it in federal court, our path would be to bankruptcy court.”

* ComEd to pay out bill relief, Ameren will not

* Kadner: Customers getting hot over freezing cable

* State limiting public use of armories

* Mortgage probe brings suspensions; more here

* Illinois offers aid to tornado ravaged Kansas

* House sends message about altering its own pay

* Legislators consider bills to make teens drive safer; more here

* Tribune Editorial: Give illegals the ability to drive

* Brown: Certificate bill drives immigration debate

“Illegal is illegal.” Actually, I didn’t forget. I just chose to momentarily tune out that mantra in hopes that somebody might be willing to consider some practical steps to deal with the realities of illegal immigration in our communities while we’re waiting for Congress to come up with its own plan.

* Horse slaughtering, values clash in Illinois

* Excerpts from recent Illinois editorials

* DuPage Co. mulls home-rule to boost revenue

However, as a home-rule government, the county could impose taxes, such as a sales tax on cigarettes, without approval from voters or the state legislature

* Sneed: Ald. Burke & horse-slaughter bill

* Chicago Olympic team mum on potential revenue

* Mayor defends plan to fight police wrongdoing

* Police say killing of candidate’s son wasn’t political

posted by Paul Richardson
Wednesday, May 9, 07 @ 8:03 am

Comments

It is indeed comforting that Bruce Dold and the tribune Editorial Board, know that 70 percent of the illegal aliens…

“pay taxes using a taxpayer identification number.”

That implies the tribune, unlike the remainder of us, knows the total number of illegal aliens. If the Trib can show that, perhaps they realized that of the continuing flow, thirty percent don’t, multiplying the number of illegal aliens, who remain a danger.

Perhaps they know as well the total number of illegals who have obtained a license using somebody else’s SSN and address? How many have gotten three months insurance from some operation and never renewed it?

The editorial reads like a circulation booster for their Hoy readers, who are not being told that illegal aliens are taking entry level jobs that the true green card immigrants need.

Comment by Truthful James Wednesday, May 9, 07 @ 8:54 am
Rich - I think horses are beautiful and I love to ride them. I don’t eat horsemeat and I probably never will but I find the efforts to shut down Carvel’s plant kind of silly. How exactly is what they are doing slaughtering horses any different than slaughtering cattle, butchering hogs, carving chickens, slicing ducks, etc? I think that would be a good question of the day for you about how people stand on the horse slaughter ban.

Comment by paddyrollingstone Wednesday, May 9, 07 @ 10:49 am
I live in an area with a huge immigrant community. Statistically, I’m guessing that a % of these are undocumented (say 7-8%). On any given night, from the police logs, it looks like 1 or 2 unlicensed drivers are stopped, mostly from the immigrant community which is what this law is trying to deal with. That means that I personally favor this law because it benefits not so much the immigrants but me in that if I’m hit by an unlicensed driver, he will not have insurance and even if he does (some buy it with a learner’s permit not knowing that the insurance is void if the driver is unlicensed) have insurance, they will not pay so MY insurance will have to, which will make MY rates go up!

This bill benefits those citizens who live near immigrant communities just as much if not more than it benefits the undocumented themselves.

Comment by cermak_rd Wednesday, May 9, 07 @ 11:58 am
So much manure; so small the shovel. Guess that I will comment on what I see is a huge waste of government funds that impacts the whole economy of the state. Could it be possible that if illegal immigrants were not siphoning off so much of citizen resources that we would not even need a tax increase?

Comment by i d Wednesday, May 9, 07 @ 12:41 pm
Please, ID, do you really think they cost the state billions of dollars a year?

Comment by Rich Miller Wednesday, May 9, 07 @ 12:44 pm
I should have included budgeting for current programs without adding new ones. Also a freeze on salaries for elected officials and curtailment of pork and nepotism. That’s all that I want to think about for now because I would like to remain in a good mood for the rest of the day.

Comment by i d Wednesday, May 9, 07 @ 1:59 pm