Incumbent Township Assessor ready to finish what she started | Belvidere Daily Republican

Written by Natalie Conover

She is eager to talk about the improvements she has made since taking office in January 2010, including reducing residential property assessments by 32%, as well as locating and listing over twelve million dollars of omitted property that was never before listed on the tax rolls.

“This omitted property is extra money,” Helnore said. “The amount is around $450,000 direct tax dollars every year.” What does this mean for tax payers? A fairer distribution of everyone’s tax burden.

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Moment of truth draws closer for debt-riddled GateHouse | Media Nation

This is the owner of the Rockford Register Star

Since coming together in the middle of the last decade, GateHouse Media has been struggling with $1.2 billion in debt that it took on to assemble a chain of more than 300 community newspapers….

A year ago, Jack Sullivan, also in CommonWealth, found GateHouse was warning shareholders that bankruptcy was an option, even as the company was paying out $1.4 million in bonuses to top executives

According to Emily Glazer and Mark Spector of the Wall Street Journal, GateHouse appears likely to undergo a “prepackaged bankruptcy” with the cooperation of its creditors in the hopes of emerging from the proceedings debt-free.

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Friends of RVC support Lynn Kearney and Bennett Romero

 

Why has Friends of RVC only endorsed two candidates?

After conducting a detailed review of all the information regarding the ten candidates, the
committee (which is made up of a cross-section of RVC employee groups) was able to reach a
consensus on endorsing both Lynn and Romero. Both made clear their commitment to the
education of our community. Both demonstrated a willingness to be good stewards for our
community college for six years. Both were clear in their passion to work with all stakeholders and
not to be too tied to outside interests and agendas. This does not mean we are necessarily running
against any other candidates; this simply means we see that both Lynn and Romero as bringing a
balanced approach to the board and meeting the needs of the staff, students, college and
community.

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