Wednesday, March 20, 2013
County President Toni Preckwinkle is asking 1,500 inmates be transferred to home-monitoring, to prevent an overcrowding crisis, ABC7 reports.
Cook County Jail is nearly full to bursting. Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is asking the detention center to reduce its 10,000+ population by 1,500 because there is not enough money to pay for them, ABC7 reports. At its current rate of admissions, the prison is poised to exceed its 10,150-prisoner capacity "within days." "The population I had today is what I'd normally have at the worst time of the year," Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart told ABC7. "You can't sustain that. My overtime budget is exploding right now, absolutely exploding. I'm already close to going through what I was supposed to do for the whole year." To prevent overcrowding, Preckwinkle proposes that by mid-summer, 1,500 prisoners be transferred to home …
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
The state might take a crippling hit if Congress does not act before Friday.
Deep, nationwide cuts are geared to take place March 1. They're the first of a decade-long $1.2 trillon budget cut plan poised to go into effect unless Congress can compromise on a defecit-reduction plan. Here’s what Illinois stands to lose, according to the White House: U.S. Representative Dan Lipinski (IL-3) blasted the sequester that both sides must "end the blame game" and "halt the sequester" by passing the new Simpson-Bowles plan. Lipinski claims the plan would reduce the federal deficit by an estimated additional $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years through a combination of spending cuts, new revenue, and tax reform. "The sequester uses a meat cleaver when a scalpel should be used. It's not the way to go about responsibly reducing …
Monday, February 21, 2011
Sen. Mark Kirk answered questions and outlined his view on the budget deficit in a town hall meeting Saturday.
As a budget battle looms in the nation's capital, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) focused his remarks on the federal deficit and spending during a town hall forum in Frankfort on Saturday. Kirk took questions from attendees who filled an elementary school gym looking for the opportunity to hear and question their senator. “I don’t want you to walk out of here feeling completely bad about the future of the United States,” Kirk said, before launching into a discussion on growing federal spending. The event was supposed to feature freshman Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-11th). An early-morning budget vote prevented Kinzinger from attending in person, but he made remarks via videoconference. Kinzinger echoed Kirk’s belief that Congress should cut …
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
The Board of Trustees met Monday and approved the 2011 budget among other agenda items.
The Evergreen Park Village Board unanimously approved the 2011 budget Monday evening, for the fiscal year spanning from Nov. 1, 2010 to Oct. 31, 2011. "I'm very proud of it," said Mayor James Sexton. The board had previously held off presenting the budget during the last meeting of 2011 when the tax levies were approved, to iron out a few wrinkles in the plan. "We have a balanced budget with really no fee increases, no water rate increases, and in these times it's a rarity to be able to do this," said village treasurer John Sawyers. Trustees approved a total 2011 budget of $20,805,000, comparable to pre-recession numbers when the budget was $20,448,000 in 2008. "Pretty incredible. We're doing business today in 2011 with 2008 budget …
Sunday, January 16, 2011
A recap of this week's top stories
Lots of news happened on Evergreen Park Patch this week. We started off premiering a new column, A Good Read on the Southland, where Dennis Robaugh links you to the must-read stories in the Southland. This week's posts were "Are Some Students Too Hot for Teacher?," "Crime-N-Shame, the Region's Best Cop Blotter," "Will 2 of the Southland's Most Notorious Killers Escape Death Row?" and "Hot Topics: Patch Readers Have Their Say." Click through these interesting reads and catch up on the hot posts of the week. Did you know that January was "Get Organized Month?" Lolita Cusic interviewed Evergreen Park professional organizer Colleen Klimczak, who shared with us a few tips on how we can get our house in order. Later on in the week, we learned …
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11:35 am on Sunday, March 24, 2013
@Laird for anyone not one part of the chosen people versions of anything the ROSETTA STONE is for decoding hieroglyphics which SANSKRIT is not, there were hieroglyphics and even texts and wisdom passed down from the Garden of Eden and I suppose of Dino's that roamed paradise here on earth with them but were were burned by Christian mobs in Alexandria that would have made it less complicated but … more ›