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CHICAGO, IL - Illinois is cutting the statewide grocery tax, but some local governments may reestablish it. One Chicago suburb is already moving in that direction. Its neighbor will let taxpayers keep their grocery money.
Illinois is ending its 1% grocery tax, but your town has the ability to bring it right back.
River Forest is expecting to institute a local grocery tax worth $1 million a year. Neighboring Oak Park has no plans to add taxation to replace the roughly $1 million it will lose.
When Illinois joins 37 other states by ditching its grocery tax, local municipalities such as River Forest can choose to keep it. Village leaders are moving in that direction.
River Forest village administrator Matt Walsh said local leaders will adjust the budget based on the axed grocery tax.
“Losing that revenue would potentially mean the reduction in services or the replacement of that revenue with other sources, which would have a negative impact on taxpayers,” Walsh said.
So, letting taxpayers keep $1 million a year would hurt taxpayers?
WASHINGTON D.C. - "I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it." Those words from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg came this week with an admission in a letter that his company, Facebook, did yield to pressure from the Biden-Harris administration to censor American citizens on a wide array of subjects.
For those of us who have criticized Facebook for years for its role in the massive censorship system, Zuckerberg's belated contrition was more insulting than inspiring. It had all of the genuine regret as a stalker found hiding under the bed of a victim.
Zuckerberg's sudden regret only came after his company fought for years to conceal the evidence of its work with the government to censor opposing views. Zuckerberg was finally compelled to release the documents by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and the House Judiciary Committee. Click here to read more.
CONCORD, N.H. — A Republican New Hampshire state representative last week agreed to pay two drag queens $100K each to settle a defamation lawsuit over remarks he made in 2022.
State Rep. David Love, R-Derry, during a February 2022 hearing of the House Labor, Industrial, and Rehabilitative Services Committee introduced a bill calling for libraries to conduct background checks on employees and volunteers. While introducing the measure, the representative touched on a Drag Queen Story Time event at a local music hall which featured drag queen Michael McMahon.
In his testimony, state Rep. Love accused the drag queen of “rubbing butts” with children at the event. The representative also invoked a similar event in 2019 which featured drag queen Robert Champion, who he accused of being a convicted sex offender.
“There’s a hole in our law,” state Rep. Love said. “We’re talking about a lifetime of misery for a child.”
The representative went on to disclose his own experience of being molested at 6 years old before becoming an alcoholic and drug user at 11. He admitted it took him until 60 to become sober again. Click here to read more.
CHICAGO, IL - One of my original hopes in commenting about Covid was that, in publicly taking a strongly anti-establishment position, my audience might be able to relate a little better to what I was saying on other topics. It might, in other words, give me some credibility with the people who I was trying to reach when I wrote about misinformation in health and nutrition.
Despite having my life wrecked by that decision, I haven’t radically changed in my scientific orientation. I have become much more open-minded to the possibility that I might be wrong on any given topic, and I don’t simply dismiss as “crazy” positions that are radically foreign to mine. I’m genuinely sympathetic to the “absolute craziest ideas” these days, because some of what I formerly regarded as some of the “absolute craziest ideas”—such as the idea that lockdowns were counterproductive during the pandemic—I ended up actually believing as I became more informed. Click here to read more.
LANSING, Mich - Detroit’s Election Commission is facing a lawsuit for selecting a disproportionately high number of Democrat poll workers in the August primaries, a possible violation of Michigan election law.
The commission appointed about 2,337 Democrat poll workers and about 310 Republican poll workers, an imbalance of more than 7 to 1.
“Detroit’s failure to hire Republican poll workers is the kind of bad-faith Democrat interference that drives down faith in elections,” RNC Chairman Michael Whatley and Co-Chair Lara Trump said. “The RNC is bringing suit to remedy this completely unacceptable breach of public trust and our unprecedented election integrity campaign will continue to fight in Michigan and nationwide to protect the rights of every voter to have fair, accurate, secure and transparent elections.” Click here to read more.
