Here’s a State’s Attorney who had indicted a County Supervisor of Assessments for improper use of a county credit card. The story is from Illinois Leaks and is published with permission: Joseph Meents, former Champaign Co. Supervisor of Assessments, appeared … Continue reading
Category Archives: Champaign County
I always get exercised when I see marginal highway projects in Downstate Illinois, while area residents are threatened (with the support of local officials) with a local toll bridge across the Fox River between Carpentersville and Algonquin. In 2007, we … Continue reading
Although primary election voters approved the imposition of a one percentage point sales tax hike in Lawrence County, former State Rep. now Sumner Press Publisher Roscoe Cunningham is calling for a delay in the county board’s imposing it. “While changing … Continue reading
School folks throughout Downstate (let’s use the old definition of “everything outside of Cook County”) will be talking about Champaign County’s having just passed a sales tax to fund school construction and remodeling in this low turnout election. I learned … Continue reading
If you got a school newsletter that usually came at the end of November right before the election and it included the following column, would you think the school district was spending tax dollars to convince you to vote in … Continue reading
If you got a school newsletter that usually came at the end of November right before the election and it included the following column, would you think the school district was spending tax dollars to convince you to vote in … Continue reading
Some variation of a sales tax for schools is being pitched in Champaign County. Only the DuPage County Republican-imposed tripling of the RTA sales tax rate and Mayor Aaron Shepley’s 75% Crystal Lake city sales tax hike has probably suppressed … Continue reading
Some variation of a sales tax for schools is being pitched in Champaign County. Only the DuPage County Republican-imposed tripling of the RTA sales tax rate and Mayor Aaron Shepley’s 75% Crystal Lake city sales tax hike has probably suppressed … Continue reading