Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Taxpayers association meeting to focus on Boone County's financial woes - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star

 

The group, which touts itself as a nonpartisan government spending watchdog agency, will host Boone County Board Chairman Bob Walberg and County Administrator Ken Terrinoni at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Belvidere Township Hall, 8200 Fairgrounds Road, Belvidere.

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Poplar Grove's wind-turbine rules won’t stop developers - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star

 

The need for renewable energy is well known. It is an area that the country wants to move to,” Papiech said. “There are a lot of people (in Boone County) that are interested in having wind turbines on their property.”

Poplar Grove's wind-turbine rules won’t stop developers - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star

Reports: GM to export China-built cars to US - Kansas City Star

 

Reports: GM to export China-built cars to US - Kansas City Star

Robert Reich's Blog: The Truth Behind the Social Security and Medicare Alarm Bells

 

Medicare is the terrible one, but the problem is not really Medicare; it's quickly rising health-care costs. Look more closely and the real problem isn't even health-care costs; it's a system that pushes up costs by rewarding inefficiency, causing unbelievable waste, pushing over-medication, providing inadequate prevention, over-using emergency rooms because many uninsured people can't afford regular doctor checkups, and spending billions on advertising and marketing seeking to enroll healthy people and avoid sick ones.

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Boone County’s efforts to rein in budget

Things don’t seem to be getting better.

Karl Johnson