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So, last month, we had a bit of a kerfuffle over the corruption of aldermen in Chicago, and one named bubbled up: Brian Hynes.
The posts:
The Undeniable Corruption of Chicago and Illinois: part 4 – Unpaid Vendors Program
Chicago and Illinois Corruption Followup: Lawsuit Involving the Unpaid Vendors Program
There’s some new coverage from the Chicago Tribune:
The consummate political insider linked to the burgeoning City Hall corruption probe
Ali Ata had just...
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I usually put the tweets at the end of a post, but this one caught my eye.
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Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity by Vladimir Bukovsky, originally published in the 1990s in non-English languages is finally being published in English.
Let me quote Bruce Bawer on why it took so long:
Bukovsky’s book might have helped awaken Americans to the reality of Communism....
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But I’m not done with Taxing Tuesday!
(Seriously, NY, the state I actually live in, lagged the feds and CT by a week in getting me my refund.)
The amusing thing (to me) is that Mint, a financial info aggregator run by Intuit (aka the TurboTax company), emailed me after I received...
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I haven’t done one of these in a while, but I’ve built up a bunch of links in my Actuarial Outpost Public Pensions Watch (for 2019), as well as my other pension watch threads, and thought you might be interested in some of the themes I’ve come across.
Most of...
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I’m not waiting til Tuesday to cover this, because this is insane.
PRITZKER’S PLAN
Here it is: Millionaires Would Pay 3 Percent More Under Pritzker Tax Plan
Want to know what you would be paying under Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s graduated income tax proposal? The governor released the specifics of his...
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