The Illinois Policy Institute’s transparency website, IllinoisOpenGov.org, highlights many examples of state government workers receiving average annual wages much higher than the average statewide wage estimates for the same position.
Click on the following for other occupations and state salaries: http://www.illinoispolicy.org/uploads/files/MindtheGap_2.pdf
New details.
C-SPAN video shows Kirk on the House floor saying he was fired upon.
"The last time I was in Iraq I was in uniform flying at 20,000 feet, and the Iraqi air defense network was shooting at us," Kirk said in the undated video, which was posted online by the Giannoulias campaign.
Click on the following for more details: Kirk apologizes for misstating military record - Yahoo! News
City Hall will be closed to Freeport residents June 4, marking the first of 13 consecutive Fridays that the facility will be unavailable to the public.
The cost-cutting measure, approved by the City Council on May 17, will allow the city to implement furlough days for non-salary employees
Click on the following for more details: Freeport City Hall closed June 4 - Freeport, IL - The Journal-Standard
Silence Dogood returns after long absence. Hopefully Mr. Dogood will be back with us for a long time. Here is his first post since July 2009
Health is better, let’s get back to work.
Posted on May 26, 2010 by belvideresovereignty
Thank you for being so forgiving while I went through my physical therapy. Some of you know via e-mails we exchanged that I had some difficulties with my stroke and had to have physical therapy. That process took some time and I was told I needed to remain stress free during that time period of rehabilitation. Not so easy my friends in this town when every day someone annoys you with their stupidity.
Also it has been very hard for me to get online because so many people are still trying to figure out who I am and therefore I have had to deal with too many firewall invasions. One would think there might be a community problem to solve. Is someone getting paid to find out who I am and why I want to use my constitutional rights and speak out.
Thank you to all who encouraged me to continue the fight and come back on line. I hope we find some common ground to combat this administration together.
So where shall we begin, why with your emails of course. I hope you will e-mail me your opinions, concerns and anything else you would like to discuss. I look forward to hearing from you.
Please check back very soon, I have received 3 e-mails from parents who attended the graduation ceremony of Belvidere North High School and they were not to happy with Fred Brereton giving what sounded like a political speech. If anyone has that speech on tape I would be most grateful if you allowed me to upload it to my blog.
Its good to be back……………………………………………
Click on the following for more of Mr. Dogood: Belvidere’s Sovereignty By Silence Dogood
upgrade is the result of satisfactory financial operations supported by healthy reserves and, in particular, they highlighted the county’s policy of a reserve equal to 25 to 30 percent of annual General Fund expenditures
County board chairman announces county’s bond rate upgraded by two levels | The Rock River Times
Rock Valley College recently did the same but did not need to seek voter approval.
The question may be whether to extend its existing debt for another 20 to 25 years, or allow its debt to expire - and, accordingly, its tax rate to drop…The college is close to paying off debt from past projects and would need voter support to extend the current tax rate to raise $168 million for the potential projects
Daily Herald | Are taxpayers ready to let College of DuPage take on more debt?
Here is what Mark Kirk had on his campaign website:
The Kirk Campaign: Still Scrubbing Away
Several days after admitting that he didn't actually receive the Navy's award for "intelligence officer of the year," the campaign of GOP U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk is still scrambling to correct all their mentions of the award. Case in point, Politico's Ben Smith noted earlier this morning that the assertion could be found on the issues page of Kirk's campaign website:
It's since been changed.
Eight months ago a local company Infrastructure Defense Technologies (IDT) was forced to file a protest with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) who made the original request for quote on the Protective Barriers central to this ongoing situation. Ultimately the contract award was rescinded and bidding was repeated.
Recently the contract for these protective barriers was awarded again to the foreign company that has provided over $1 billion worth of the current protective barrier product. …
When asked if there was a real chance that they would prevail in a second appeal process, Tom Carlton said, "I believe we have a 50 percent chance of winning this appeal and I will take this opportunity to invite President Obama to come to Belvidere and IDT to see the area and the product and talk to us about how important this contract is to this area."
