On Tuesday Cook County Board President Todd Stroger argued he's certain that the board's successful slashing of the county's unpopular sales tax actually could put people's lives on the line with fewer dollars being funneled into the county's health and hospital system serving the poor and [...]
It's Official: Cook County Cuts Sales Tax
Cook County Board of Commissioners voted today to override Board President Todd Stroger's veto, resulting in the sales tax being lowered a half a percent. The Trib reports:
Voting to override and cut taxes: Earlean Collins, D-Chicago; Forrest Claypool, D-Chicago; John Daley, D-Chicago; Bridget Gainer, D-Chicago; Elizabeth Gorman, R-Orland Park;' [...]
The 5 million residents of Cook County are big winners this afternoon. Half of the hated one percent "corruption tax" was eliminated this afternoon when Cook County commissioners voted to override a veto by vacuous political hack Todd Stroger, who is president of the county board.
Quinn Expects Sales Tax Veto Overthrown
Cook County Board President Todd Stroger will stay on the ballot for the Feb. 2 Democratic primary election after rival Dorothy Brown’s campaign dropped a challenge to Stroger’s nominating petitions.
The [...]
Cook Co. Board Votes To Scale Back Stroger Sales Tax Hike
By a vote of 12-5, the Cook County Board of Commissioners voted
yesterday to reduce the county sales tax by half-a-cent, thereby
halving President Todd Stroger's controversial sales tax hike. Stoger
has vowed to veto the' [...]
Below are our daily picks from the Illinois blogosphere and media at large:
Burdening The Poor
The debate in Springfield about an income tax hike should focus on reforming an outdated and highly regressive state tax
code, writes Galesburg Register-Mail guest columnist Judy Guenseth.
Why Todd Stroger Is [...]
Todd Stroger's inadequacies weren't the only topics of discussion at yesterday's forum for the Democrats vying for Cook County Board president. Two of Stroger's rivals also weighed in against one of Mayor Daley's: his resistance to full disclosure of how hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money [...]
Look, we’ve spent plenty of time over the last several years critiquing Cook County Board President Todd Stroger.
Let’s make sure we remember that when it’s time to go to the polls.
Cook County Board president Todd Stroger took some heat for not attending today’s Democratic forum [...]
UPDATED: SEE VIDEO REPORT HEREOver the past two weeks, we've been covering some intense efforts by Chicago-area who want to see Cook County set aside some of the millions in foreclosure filing fee revenue for mediation services. After a year of unsuccessfully trying to get a meeting with County Board President Todd Stroger, the group Action' [...]
