Holly Marie
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@HollyAngryMom
Fed up lifelong Illinois resident, parent and small business owner.
@latimes No. LA is not safer. People just stopped reporting crime.
You can see in this passage from 2008, in which Christopher Hitchens heaps scorn on Michelle Obama's undergraduate thesis, ("To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be “read” at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language") the reason why the Great Awokening was soon to be launched. After a decade of Giuliani-ism and Clintonite triangulation (welfare reform, "superpredators", the Crime Bill), cynical white guys, even those nominally "on the Left" (Hitchens had departed it by 2008, but his prior credentials as a figure on the Left were part of what gave him permission to say these things in mainstream publications) felt free to do things they would soon not feel free to do, like belittle and ridicule and denigrate the intelligence of the first black First Lady.
Groceries just had the biggest price hike in years. It’s about to get even worse, experts warn thehill.com/business/perso…
🚨 Illinois Democrats pass bill banning junk fees, saving voters over $3,000 per year. 30 Republicans voted no.
NEW: The Chicago Teachers Union wants to hike dues by $8.5M — forcing teachers to pay up to $800 more/year. The first goal, according to the union’s own documents: buy a majority of Chicago school board seats this November. Even worse: They’re sneaking in a constitutional change to block members from suing the union over violations of their rights. Go deeper in this week’s edition of The Last Ward. thelastward.org/p/chicago-teac…
Chicago Mayor Johnson: "If we think we can arrest our way to safety, we wrong. We ask police to do too much!" From today's summer safety event:
The debate over the @ChicagoBears moving to Arlington Heights is hiding a massive loophole that will increase property taxes regardless of where you live in Illinois. Lawmakers are pushing a bill to keep the team from leaving for Indiana, but if it passes it was set a dangerous precedent for state government accountability. The bill would establish a framework allowing any local government in Illinois to grant massive tax breaks for so-called "mega-projects" (defined simply as any commercial development investing $100 million over 7 to 10 years). Here is the catch: Cities can raise property taxes based on the project's value, but they are legally barred from collecting that increase from the development itself. The financial burden falls entirely on local homeowners.
