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Congressman addresses group in Glenview hours after casting vote to cut $60 billion in federal spending.
A passionate group of more than 60 people came to U.S Rep. Bob Dold’s (R-IL) town hall meeting at Glenview Village Hall on Saturday to hear what their congressman had to say about his first six weeks in Washington. The citizens wanted to hear Dold’s ideas and express their own. Some of the participants argued with each other while the first-term congressman acted as the peacemaker. Most had the economy and budget as their top priorities, and there were a myriad of suggestions to improve the situation. Dold was poised to discuss the issue after voting to cut $60 billion from the current federal budget just seven and a half hours before the meeting began. He cast his vote about 3:30 a.m. (CST) on the floor of the House. “We had to go back…
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At Sunday’s League of Women Voters-sponsored forum, state Reps. Daniel Biss, Robyn Gabel and Karen May instilled hope in some residents and infuriated others.
The three state representatives of Glencoe, Kenilworth, Northfield, Wilmette and Winnetka came before disgruntled residents Sunday to address growing concerns of Illinois’ gaping budget hole. Three local branches of the League of Women Voters – Glencoe, Wilmette, and Winnetka-Northfield-Kenilworth – hosted the forum, inviting Reps. Daniel Biss (D-17th District), Robyn Gabel (D-18th) and Karen May (D-58th) to New Trier Township High School in Northfield to offer their budget-balancing strategies. “For too long Illinois [has been] financing its growing deficit by accumulating debt,” said Jane Goldenberg, acting co-president of the Winnetka-Northfield-Kenilworth league, nonpartisan policy-educating organization. “We are among the five states …
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11:28 am on Wednesday, February 16, 2011
This state is in such a hole, and these people, Biss excluded, got us there. Biss is right: start with zero based budgets EVERY year. Gov't entities spend so they don't get cut, which is totally wrong. The hope in this crisis is that it can change the patronage model, the waste and the lethargy without sense of outcome and deliverable that has defined state and federal gov'ts for decades now. … more ›
Trustees approved a budget with no increase in the tax levy after rescinding the 10 percent increase approved at the Nov. 15 meeting.
The Winnetka-Northfield Public Library District's board of trustees not only rescinded a tax levy it approved last month, but approved a budget with no increases over this year's extension levy of $3.4 million at a special meeting Monday night. The special meeting was called in part because of public criticism of the library trustees' vote to increase the levy by 10 percent on Nov. 15. Residents have complained the increase would mean an additional $54 on a standard $20,000 property tax bill. The vote was also criticized because only five of the seven trustees attended the first meeting. With the 3-2 vote on Nov. 15 to approve the increase, the two absent trustees could have voted down, or affirmed, the measure. "The process was sound…
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1:14 am on Friday, February 25, 2011
@ Pat - I mentioned below that Dold's notorious "jobs advisory panel" is headed up by Abbott Lab's chief lobbyist. This came to light the week AFTER Abbott pinkslipped 2000 people even though the company was profitable. Is Dold and his shiny new "jobs panel" going to find those 2000 people new jobs? more ›