Unit 5, District 87 send 1% sales tax question to voters in April election Leaders of the two largest school districts in McLean County are asking voters to approve a 1% sales tax that they say could lead to property tax relief while also funding needed building repairs and ... 12/18/2024 - 9:06 pm | View Link
District 87 and Unit 5 boards approve putting sales tax referendum question on April ballot The Unit 5 and District 87 school boards and several other districts in McLean County have voted to put a sales tax referendum on the April 1 ballot. The proposed 1% sales tax would raise money for ... 12/18/2024 - 1:06 pm | View Link
School districts face cuts with average property tax projected to increase The news came Monday in a letter from tax commissioner Craig Bolio. Rates are projected to rise by 5.9%. That figure will vary depending on where you live and the school budgets voters approve ... 12/4/2024 - 8:56 am | View Link
This is, in a word, insane. More anticipatory compliance, or is something larger going on? We already see signs of a bad flu season, and Louisiana just announced the first serious case of human bird flu. WTF? Via NPR:
A group of high-level managers at the Louisiana Department of Health walked into a Nov.
El Cheato's death grip on the Republican Party got a lot looser last night after 38 of his House minions voted to defy his command to support a spending and debt deal. Via the New York Times:
Writing on social media, Mr. Trump had told Republicans to “vote ‘YES’ for this Bill, TONIGHT!” He said it was vital to pass a bill that extended spending until early next year and suspended the nation’s debt limit until 2027, well into his next term.
For the better part of a decade, that kind of dictate has usually been enough for Mr.
Elon Musk, the likely illegal immigrant disqualified from being an elected president because he was not born in the U. S., has now found a way to become president anyway: Give Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans $277 million so that he can be the puppet master.
If the failed bipartisan bill to keep the government open past Friday is any indication, Musk’s plan to be President-Never-Elected is working.
Rep.
Unsurprisingly, a panel of GOP-appointed judges on Thursday stripped Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and her office from the last remaining criminal case against incoming vice-president Donald Trump. Incoming President Leon Musk could not be reached for comment.
The panel concluded that Willis’ one-time romantic relationship with former special prosecutor Nathan Wade constituted a conflict of interest that merited her dismissal from the case.
NewsHounds - Senator Hagerty thinks RFK Jr. is great!
Progress Pond (BooMan) - Musk and Trump cannot count votes;
Slacktivist - 'evangelical' as opposed to what?
Strangely Blogged - lab-created bullshit;
The Brad Blog - Trump family corruption cometh!
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I'm so f*king tired of unelected President Elon Musk. I'm tired of him waltzing around Washington like he got one vote. I'm tired of the tool getting up on stages and jumping up in the air like an addled toddler with the self awareness of drywall. And I'm tired of this absolute tool making dangerous, callow, obtuse economic decisions he has no legal right to make.