By Colin Briskman Barely half the jobs promised by Tax Increment Financing projects that have consumed billions of taxpayer dollars in Chicago have been created, according to an analysis by the watchdog group Illinois PIRG (Public Interest Research Group). The report comes one year after Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Reform Panel released…
Gary Wickert
A Nation of Wimps
By Gary L. Wickert Gary Wickert is an author, trial lawyer and town of C e d a r b u r g Supervisor, who lives in Cedarburg with his wife, Lisa and two sons. He can be reached at garywickert@ameritech.net. I woke up one day earlier this month to a news story that opened…
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Steve’s Say . . .
Our Way Ahead Last Tuesday’s electoral debacle ranked right up there as one of the greatest disappointments of my life. Fully expecting Mitt Romney to win handily due to my belief that America would not take this step into the abyss of authoritarian Hell, Fox News called Wisconsin for Obama at 8:01 pm CST. I…
Michael Hintze
Election Post Mortem
By Michael Hintze November 8, 2012 After due reflection and the passage of time, I here offer to my Republican and Tea Party friends the following Presidential election Post Mortem. We lost. That is the cold, hard reality of the election. We lost. That is the fact we must be willing to face squarely and…
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BEATEN BUT NOT DEFEATED!
Mark Levin’s Comments On The Presidential Election “We conservatives, we do not accept bipartisanship in the pursuit of tyranny. Period. We will not negotiate the terms of our economic and political servitude. Period. We will not abandon our child to a dark and bleak future. We will not accept a fate that is alien to…
Bonnie Leifer
Winds of Change
Yesterday the winds were strong And so was our grand old flag. It was a beautiful sight to see such might, Even from miles away. It did not wave, it just stood straight As if in a salute. The stars were bright, the colors were bold, I felt its strength and hope. The lessons learned–…