Beloit, Wisconsin: the next Ho-Chunk Casino

The following website is being advertised on many searches for Beloit sites.  Click on:  http://goodforbeloit.org/ to see for yourself

Tax Foundation ranks Illinois a more favorable tax climate than Wisconsin

Illinois is ranked #28 (middle rank of 50 states+ versus Wisconsin’s #43 (8th worse state of 50 states)

 

The following is taken from:  http://taxfoundation.org/research/show/22658.html

Apple’s Blow out earnings have a huge cost

 

In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad

By CHARLES DUHIGG and DAVID BARBOZA

Published: January 25, 2012

In the last decade, Apple has become one of the mightiest, richest and most successful companies in the world, in part by mastering global manufacturing. Apple and its high-technology peers — as well as dozens of other American industries — have achieved a pace of innovation nearly unmatched in modern history.

However, the workers assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices often labor in harsh conditions, according to employees inside those plants, worker advocates and documents published by companies themselves. Problems are as varied as onerous work environments and serious — sometimes deadly — safety problems.

Read more by clicking on the following: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html?_r=1

District 100’s Community Cupboard—the other food pantry in Belvidere Township

The following is taken from:   http://www.district100.com/District/Pages/Community-Cupboard.aspx

Click on the photocopy to enlarge:

Casino gives pay-off to worthy seniors

The city of Elgin helps out many of its seniors with $200 checks.

The city has had the program in place since late 1996. To qualify for the money, a person had to be 65 or older, live Elgin, have a Senior Citizen Homestead Exemption, and be the owner of a home or mobile home for the 12 months in the year the rebate was issued.

Qualifying homeowners received a $200 check, while qualifying mobile home owners received $35. Since the program’s start, the city has rebated $9,387,015 of its share of casino money with it.

Click on the following for all of the story:  http://couriernews.suntimes.com/10187867-417/swan-song-for-elgins-senior-tax-rebates.html

Romney Taxes

The details are coming out slowly as the actual tax returns themselves have not been released. 

The New York Times has some of the most detailed information thus far.  There is a minute by minute report as details come out.  Click on the following to see the most current releases:  http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/inside-the-romney-tax-returns/?hp

Burial problems found at VA cemeteries

VA officials said the problems at seven of its national cemeteries were largely the result of sloppy work during renovations. Headstones and markers were temporarily removed from the ground and reinserted in the wrong places.

Click on the following to read the entire story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/burial-problems-found-at-va-cemeteries/2012/01/23/gIQAYXLFMQ_story.html?wpisrc=al_national