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"Disgusting just to think that someone here who is actually here every single day. Still ask them for that and just knowing that someone was inside of our building and did that is just disturbing. Community high school district 99 in an email to parents says mesmer wasn't the full-time employee of the school and had been with the girls track team since April of 2021. A former trainer's lawsuit against the White Sox has now been dismissed. Brian ball sued the socks last year saying he was fired after two decades after staff learned he was gay. The team says his 2020 termination was based solely on performance. White Sox management says barring any appeals, the matter is now closed. Mayor elect Brandon Johnson attended his last Cook County board meeting ahead of his inauguration last month next month that is a W J Courtney Spinelli reports. Each member of the board had the opportunity to extend their well wishes and gratitude for his service as he prepares to take office on the 5th floor. Now, in those comments, several board commissioners also hinting at challenges and barriers they say they faced with 5th floor administration, some saying, this is an opportunity to open a door for good, and we're collaboratively with the mayor's office, something president Tony preckwinkle says has been, quote, difficult, but not naming any administration specifically legendary talk show host Jerry Springer is dead at 79 from pancreatic cancer. His family says he died peacefully at his home in suburban Chicago with Thursday morning, Springer also served as the 56th mayor of Cincinnati in 1977, the Jerry Springer show aired in syndication for 27 years from 1991 until 2018. Portillo's is about to open three new suburban restaurants expected to open
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"Families who are grieving by allowing them the proper time to themselves to mourn their loss. Under the bill, parents working at a company with 250 or more employees would be allowed up to 12 weeks of bereavement leave, those at smaller companies would get 6 weeks. Flavored E cigarettes could soon be banned in Cook County. Kim Gordon has more on a bill being introduced by the Cook County board. A bill is being introduced today to ban the sale of flavored nicotine products in suburban Cook County, Cook County board commissioner Donna Miller says her bill prohibits retailers from selling any flavored nicotine product, including menthol, fruit, candy dessert and alcohol flavors, but the taste or aroma of tobacco is not included if passed the bill would take effect immediately and violators could be fined up to $5000. The city of Chicago and several other states already have a similar ban. Kim Gordon 8 90 WOS news. And in baseball, the cubs dropped last night's game against the Padres 5 to three. They'll hand the ball to Hayden wisneski for the rubber match this afternoon. And the White Sox, their fans have to be wondering if they'll win again. They were shut out by the Blue Jays last night, 8 to nothing. That's their 7th loss in a row. They're now 7 in 7 and 18 on the season. Things do not get easier tonight as they welcome the league leading Tampa Bay Rays to guaranteed rate field for a four game set. And if you're a baseball fan, you can take advantage of red line day today. That's when both teams play at home, cubs this afternoon, socks at night. If you're inclined, you can catch the cubs and Padres at Wrigley Field at one 20. And then hop on the red line to guaranteed rate field for the socks and raise at 6 ten. WLS news time, 1205, Kennedy inbound
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"Serve them up hot and crispy, guaranteed using only natural cut skin on fries prepared to golden goodness and perfectly sprinkled with sea salt, guaranteed to be hot and crispy. If yours aren't, bring them back and they'll replace them. And participating U.S. Wendy's. All 9 candidates vying for mayor of Chicago appeared on stage at a debate last night, Nick Gale has more. The debate hosted by ABC 7 in the league of women voters while violent crime was on top of the list of forum topics, other topics included concerns like affordable housing and gentrification. Cook County board commissioner Brandon Johnson, we have to make sure that we're not just simply making affordable housing more accessible, but we also have to make sure that we commit to public housing and pathway to home ownership alderman roderick Sawyer. We have lots where you can build affordably, really affordably, and use that same density bonus money to invest in our neighborhoods that are really seeing no investment whatsoever. Other topics included safety on the CTA retaining businesses and the Chicago Bears. The debate was streamed online and aired on sub channel 7.2, the full debate airs Sunday at ten 30 p.m.. Nick Gale 8 90 WLS news. January is radon action month in Illinois, radon is dangerous because it is odorless tasteless and colorless and can lead to health problems as state emergency management agency spokesperson Kevin Sur. Here in Illinois about 1100 people develop radon related lung cancer each year. And so these are some pretty high numbers that we want to make sure that people have a way to test for radon in their home. Sir says radon tests right on test kits are available at most hardware and department stores. It's recommended you do both a short term and long-term test. If readings are high, you can contact I ema or a licensed mitigation
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"Conference is going to have to learn how to work together. So it's better that we go through this process right now so we can achieve the things we want to achieve for the American public. The house adjourned Thursday night and we'll reconvene at noon eastern Friday, McCarthy lost 5 more floor votes marking 11 straight ballot losses. Every speaker since 1923 has been elected after just one vote, a group of about 20 hardliner Republicans as opposed to McCarthy's candidacy with South Carolina representative Ralph Norman saying of the offers coming from McCarthy's camp that round one is on paper, which is a good thing. Mayor lightfoot is trailing three of her opponents as she aims for a second term as the city's mayor. In a poll of nearly 1800 people conducted by the daily line in crane Chicago business lightfoot sits behind Paul valles and well behind congressman chewie Garcia and Cook County board commissioner Brandon Johnson, 25% of respondents said they would vote for Johnson 25% would vote for Garcia, 15% would vote for valis and 11% said they would vote lightfoot to a second term. Kevin wells WGN news. Candidate Willie Wilson did not crack the top four. He said the poll was put out to mislead voters and that he'll no longer participate in the mayoral forum, February 1st in protest. Workers at Howard Brown health rallied again Thursday night to protest layoffs at the nonprofit, a three day worker strike ended Wednesday, but they're still protesting the layoffs of more than 60 union employees across Howard Brown facilities. They claim executives didn't bargain in good faith and they accuse the nonprofit of unfair labor practices. Margot Galena is with the union. We showed up day in and day out and tried to
WBBM Newsradio
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"Human rights day had also just bring to attention a various human rights violation across the globe for an Iran and the Hong Kong China. Awareness for the global fight for human rights, not limited to the country's mentioned to wbm by a woman in Chicago who remains anonymous. I think there's a lot of us that don't want to share our identity, but we have been helping in the building platform for many dissidents to voice out their concerns. Voicing their concerns freely in Chicago, USA, where free speech is a right for all, which is not the case in many of the countries represented by the human rights activists that have gathered. In the loop, Brandon eisen one O 5 9 WBBL. Leaders in Naperville have approved an increased tax levy but not everyone was on board as wbms Andy Dane tells us the city's park district board gave the green light to the tax increase, which will add about $17 to the annual property tax bill for the owner of a $421,000 home. Those in favor of the increase say it was necessary to support the 2023 budget and maintain certain programs, but the daily Herald reports two board commissioners voted against the planet, including Josh mcbroom, who applauded Naperville leaders for compiling a budget in the middle of rising costs and inflation, but said he could not vote for an additional tax burden. That's the latest from Naperville, a judge has set bail at $5 million for a man accused by prosecutors of firing a gun on Chicago's far south side before he was shot by police on Wednesday evening. Prosecutors say Kevin singleton was upset about a news story and he fired at family members and neighbors outside his home on 126th place, investigators say one person was wounded, that person is expected to survive, but remains on a breathing tube at a hospital. Prosecutors charge singleton with 6 counts of attempted murder. A reminder when you want to listen to wbm on your phone download the free Odyssey app and click the word follow for easy access, or when you're home just ask your smart speaker to play wbm news radio. 5 O 8 traffic
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"To be involved in an Arlington Heights stabbing. Officials say they stopped chasing the vehicle because the suspect was speeding and committing several other traffic violations. Just moments later, the vehicle crashed in the 800 block of fourth street, killing the 24 year old driver and his 52 year old father. Investigators and the Kane county state's attorney's office found the officers, quote, acted properly and followed department policy despite the deaths. That's the latest from King County. Downtown development is the important to Springfield, and now a University of Illinois facility will be a part of it. More jobs will be coming downtown once University of Illinois Springfield's new facility is up and running a few blocks from the capitol. Chancellor Janet gooch says there will be UI S's business incubator and more. Technology lab, makerspaces, and experiential labs, new workforce and professional education initiatives, a lot of opportunity for partnership, students, experiential opportunities, our UI center for state policy and leadership will be in the new space. Luge maintains the UI S campus is not that far from downtown, being within walking distance of the capital is important. If the Illinois capital, Dave Dahl, one O 5 9 W BBM. A leaders in April have approved an increased tax levy, but not everyone was on board. He said he's park district board, gave the green light to the increase, adding about $17 to the annual property tax bill for the order of a $421,000 home. Those in favor say it was necessary to support the 2023 budget, but the daily error reports to board commissioners voted against the plan, Josh mcbroom applauded Naperville leaders for compiling a budget in the middle of rising costs and inflations, but said he could not vote for an additional tax burden. Coming up airlines are testing AI that squeezing money out of travelers, it's four 22. If dog people made dog food, it definitely wouldn't look like dusty burnt Brown pebbles. It would actually be food. It would be made with real fresh meat and veggies, gently cooked to preserve the nutritional
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"Midway, 39 in Waukegan 29 and Morris and 37 at the lakefront headed up to a high of 56. It's 8 50. Chicago's only station dedicated to news around the clock. News radio one O 5 9 W BBM. Funeral arrangements are pending for former schomburg park district board commissioner Mike Daniels, who recently died at the age of 74. The daily Herald reports he served for 26 years, stepping down on April 1st of 2021 as he and his wife, sandy, prepared to retire and move to Arizona. The schomburg park districts executive director described Daniels as a visionary leader who made a huge positive impact on Parks and Recreation services in the northwest suburb. It's 8 51, this report is sponsored by Menards I'm Richard McCann, your home improvement guru, now that Thanksgiving is over. It is time to decorate for Christmas. Now, I know. I know. Most of you have had your decorations up since August. Yes, I know. But at our House, nope, not till after Thanksgiving. Now I'm gonna tell you a quick story because this happened to us a couple of years ago, and I don't want it to happen to you. We have a schedule. I put the lights on the tree. My wife decorates the tree. And it is gorgeous, low two years ago. I didn't test the lights right. Everything seemed like it was working, and three days later, I'll have the lights in the tree went off. We had an undecorated and redecorated. Here's what I'm gonna do, and here's what I want you to do. Get rid of your old Christmas lights, replace them with LEDs and make sure you check them thoroughly before they go in the tree. I'm Richard McCann, wishing you a Merry Christmas and I am. Your home improvement guru
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"Hawkins is doing court November 7th. Neil law can stay in WTF. Breaking news on WTO, the Montgomery county council now needs to replace the entire county planning board. The council today has accepted the resignations of the planning board chair, vice chair and three commissioners effective immediately. Washington Post reports, the resignations come amid accusations of ethics violations against board members and the abrupt firing of the planning department director just months before her retirement, council president Gabe albertos says in a statement the council has lost confidence in the board and it accepted the resignations to reset county planning operations. Tonya stern is serving as acting director of the planning department, the council will pick a temporary acting planning board commissioner and commissioners later this month. We'll have more soon here on WTO page. It's three O 5. We've seen the headlines of brutal attacks on trains and buses, but new data in metro's annual performance report shows crime actually dropped over the past fiscal year. Report says crime decreased by 27% compared to the previous year between July of last year in June 2022, over a quarter of the crime tour against people. Like homicide rape and assaults, while lower than last year, it's still exceeds pre-pandemic levels, but the most common occurrence were property crimes. They reported around 51 a month, most of which were on metro rail. The transit agency says that property crime rates have dropped to around pre-pandemic levels and they say priorities moving forward in 2023 will include posting more metro police on buses trains and platforms in hiring crisis intervention specialists for mental health episodes. Stricter enforcement of curfews and prince George's Callie will run through the end of the year, but county leaders are not drawing a straight line from the curfew to a recent crime drop. County leaders aren't saying mission accomplished and they won't say the curfews the final solution either. So what is? I think that's a great question and the answer is it is evolving. Counting executive Angela also Brooks says the increased carjackings in August were mostly committed by county youth during the hours of the curfew. And that's the reason that the curfew made sense for us. If we find that the environment changes and something else is required, we will do that also. Parents are engaged when they should be. Police chief malagasy says that engagement has increased a lot over the last month and has to continue. The police are not the singular source for public safety and the county. John Durham in WTO news. Well, everybody out there got a question for you. Have you been stress eating? Because a lot of us have been stress eating. There's been so much over the past few years well, coming up after traffic and weather, how to make that eating healthier. It's three O 7. Thompson creek designs builds and installs replacement windows without the middleman markup. You get high quality windows at an affordable price, direct from our local factory. Take advantage of our biggest sale of the year, with 25% off
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"News is on the air good morning I'm James Sears at 2 o'clock A former mayor Daley is in the hospital and Joe Biden's on late night TV for the first time as president WGN traffic no accident sword's lace report out there at this time just watch out for a rogue construction Former Chicago mayor Richard M Daley's in the hospital after a health scare The 80 year old reportedly was at his downtown home with one of his daughters when he began feeling out of sorts His family encouraged him to go to the hospital Those who spoke on a daily tell WGN he's now alert and in good spirits He's expected to remain at northwestern until test results come back A man's behind bars charged with a string of machete attacks on the city's northwest side Police arrested 35 year old Andre Gonzalez Monday and charged him with four counts of robbery He's now being held without bond Officers say they have linked him to at least three attacks in Evan dallen Irving park and their investigating a possible connection to other similar attacks in recent days Police say Gonzalez has an extensive criminal record and spent time in prison in 2018 The U.S. House passed the protecting our kids act last night in a 223 to 204 vote It includes things like raising the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21 as well as a ban on large capacity magazines and tougher penalties for trafficking firearms Hours after it passed President Biden appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live where the issue of guns was front and center Biden was asked why he doesn't simply issue executive orders in the same fashion of former president Trump I don't want to do and I'm not being facetious I don't want to emulate Trump's abuse of the constitution and constitutional authority And so I mean that's the story It was Biden's first in person appearance on a late night talk show since taking office he's in LA where Kimmel's taped for this week's summit of the Americas A new memorial scholarship has been set up in honor of fallen Chicago police officer Ella French to page board commissioner Pete di xion he held a fundraiser last night announcing the annual scholarship French lived into page counties as a child Her mother Elizabeth was on hand for the event I would give anything to have my daughter.
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"By shooting a quarter to four Sunday morning a dark colored car drove up in the 1500 block of north Milwaukee and someone opened fire shooting a 32 year old man in the chest and killing him Three women were also shot all in their early 20s and the 30 year old man They are all in stable condition A man is charged in connection with the assault of a 66 year old woman at a CTA green light station 32 year old Gary Coleman is facing four felony counts of aggravated battery Please say he repeatedly punched the woman in the face Friday night while she was standing on the ceremon station platform The woman fell on the tracks and was hospitalized No bond for the two men accused of carjacking a woman in Villa Park while her two children were in the back seat WGN's Ron Brown with those details 28 year old Luis Gomez Garcia and 32 year old Christopher creek are both facing felony charges The woman says she was in a shopping center parking lot Friday evening when someone came up to her car put a knife to her neck and told her to move to the passenger seat She says the other suspect got into the back of the car with the kids They were driven a short distance and released The car was recovered in lawndale a few hours later Ron Brown WGN news And the two men are due back in court next month Chicago park district general superintendent Michael Kelly resigned from his position Saturday night effective immediately the move comes after mayor lightfoot urged the park board commissioner to fire him Kelly led the park district while ongoing reports detailed sexual abuse and harassment within the aquatics department lifeguard program lightfoot released a statement saying victims will be believed and abusers will be held accountable Southwest Airlines canceled more than a thousand flights nationwide over the weekend They blame problems on air traffic control issues in bad weather but passengers stuck at midway airport a hearing rumblings of employee walkouts possibly over vaccine mandates The southwest pilots association says it's not connected to any employee job actions Passengers though they only care about getting to their destinations We were supposed.
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"District resides on that story more after WGN traffic And good news is we're not seeing any delays of any kind out on the area expressways And highways right now Chicago park district superintendent Michael Kelly's resigned from his position effective immediately Mayor Lori Lightfoot urged the park board commissioners to fire Kelly Kelly led the park discharge while ongoing reports detailed sexual abuse and harassment within the aquatics department lifeguard program lightfoot released a statement saying victims will be believed and abusers will be held accountable Kelly's resignation came late yesterday evening and a letter to the park board Jessica reigns WGN news Chicago redraws its political maps Asian American residents are pushing for a majority Asian ward There are currently no Asian members of the city council but the Asian population in Chicago increased by 45,000 in the last ten years the fastest growing ethnic group during that time The coalition for a better Chinese community says it's time for reward that includes all of Chinatown new ward maps are due December 1st Dave Schwann WGN news Southwest Airlines says east coast weather delays and air traffic control issues caused hundreds of flight delays this weekend Derek Hayes was stranded at midway We don't know what's going on We don't know why our flights must cancel They have a lack of employees and they have no managers no supervisors telling us what's going on Other passengers claim that the delays were due to a walkout because of COVID-19 vaccine mandates for employees Doctor Anthony Fauci says families can feel safe trick or treating outdoors this year for Halloween as COVID-19 cases in the U.S. decline especially for those who are vaccinated He says people wanting to enjoy Halloween should consider getting the shots for that extra degree of protection if they're not yet vaccinated So it's a good time to reflect on why it's important to get vaccinated but go out there and enjoy Halloween as well as the other holidays that will be coming up Fauci believes the numbers will continue to improve in terms of case counts in 7 day averages vaccine data on kids ages 5 to 11 will be presented to the FDA soon and called it another step in moving out of the pandemic 43rd annual Chicago marathon is in the books thousands of runners took on the long course that traveled through 29 neighborhoods WGN's Glenn.
WLS-AM 890
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"Well, you know, it's a tragic story because you keep hoping that you're improving the quality of all these offices and that the integrity of the offices is there so Very disheartening to hear what we're supposedly on those tapes they had of how he had a schedule of what the payments would be for reducing a commercial property or reducing a residential property. And I am hoping that the federal government will prosecute that person to the full extent of the law and that if there are other people who are cooperating with them that we get them out of the system. I do believe that the three commissioners who run the border review uh are there all very credible people. They're all lawyers who I think view this as it is a quasi judicial office. So this is the shocking news for them, But, you know, unfortunately, individuals Will have different moral standards and others and we've got to make sure that we get everybody to want to do their jobs correctly. Are you happy with the settlement of the strike? Between S e i U and the county I'm happy that it's settled to a certain degree. There's still are outstanding issues that are going to interest arbitration, so it's not fully settled, But I'm happy that the strike part of it is over. And I think that the S E I U members who been complaining about the county's approach in the county's complaining about the FBI. You approached. Hopefully, those issues will get resolved in the interest arbitration where at an arbitrator, an independent person will make the final decisions and then hopefully the workers will be back. But I think a strike was not something that we needed at this time, and I feel bad for the people who were out of work for 18 days because for many of them in the lower end of the pay scale. It's a significant part of their pay that they've lost. Larry, Do you think you'll mess miss all this nonsense when you retire next year? Well, I don't think I'll miss a lot of it and will miss a lot of the people and I'm just some of the issues where I felt that we could make some some improvement, but there's some really bright young members of the Cook County board. And I firmly believe that you know you don't stay in office forever. And I I have had a 20 year run, which, uh, I'm proud of, uh and I will look forward to seeing the the next set of commissioners deal with these issues. Commissioner. Thanks for your time on short notice. Much appreciated, sir. Any time you have a great day. Take care, Take care. 5 17 Larry suffered in Cook County board Commissioner from the 13th district, joining us here in Double DS. Scottie Pippen would love to have you? Yes, you over to watch the Olympics at his house. And he'll give you a gift. I'll get into that, and inflation is back. The good news is the kitty Cash is on its way this week as well. I'm sure that is not mutually exclusive. We'll bring you up today in just minutes here, double the L S. John Traffic looking pretty good on the way to Scotty's house. But on the Eisenhower we have stop and go traffic outbound between National Avenue in 25th Avenue 37 minute delays on the Stevenson It's a slow go outbound between State Street and Central Avenue. The Jane Adams tollway, an accident blocking the left lane eastbound at Rozelle wrote a car hit the wall there and on the Edens. It's a slow go inbound between Cicero and Montrose. Next traffic update in less than 15 minutes should carry Richardson. They found marijuana in her system, Vince Percent Day of a former Olympian himself. They're putting marijuana in the category of ecstasy and heroin. I've just never heard of.
WLS-AM 890
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"I'm Kim Gordon 8 90 wls news. Thank you, Kim. Greetings and salutations. Good afternoon use six minutes after five o'clock talk to Cook County Commissioner Larry suffering. There seems to be a little log jam and Essentially getting the tax breaks out to people who deserve them Troubles in receiving the taxes, And while you wouldn't think that would be a problem, it is big time. Trouble for the 455 plus Taxing bodies and cook County and we'll ask him how we can solve that here in just a couple seconds, But first, uh the commissioner has decided to hang on while we talk to Bill Bill is a police officer, and we just had an officer who killed himself this morning. Bill. Would you like to, uh, bring us up to date on that very sad story? Yeah, sure. I'm a retired homicide detective 32 years. And the police officer. Question is a really good friend, A close friend of my son. They're both the same age. He's been working 12 hours a day. No days off the last 30 days when you take an account, traveling time to work, bathing in your uniform and taking it off at night, so forth at least something about six hours a night to sleep. This is ridiculous. This city is putting these officers and and very bad positions And you know, it ended up costing this young officer his life. Um The H is totally out of control. Well, I don't have the solutions, but I promise to keep talking about it to try to make things better. Thank you for listening. Thanks for calling And we're sorry for your loss. You and the department. All right. Take care, all right at seven minutes after five o'clock Cook County commissioner later suffered in is concerned that an expected delay in property tax bills being sent out could cause cash flow problems for the 455 plus taxing bodies in the county. That's a low number because there are and I was stunned to read this 1.8 million parcels of Cook County real estate. That's an astronomical number, so it's not surprising that mistakes can happen. But this problem came to light, apparently when the Cook County assessor acknowledged last month that mistakes were made in determining the value of the senior assessment freeze and commissioner suffered and welcome back to Double DS, this senior assessment freeze for nearly what 150,000 homeowners give or take. Well, that's what they're talking about. Before we get into that, though I just want to express my sympathy. To the family of the Chicago police officer who died today and and And the other officers who are suffering from this the stress. I think your last caller just Gave us the Background on what so many of these young officers are going through, and I was sorry to hear that it was one of the younger officers. Uh, but get Something. I hope that the department will deal with, because I think this may be their third suicide this year so far, but they're not sat on that. But let me move to Property taxes. Um, the government of of the area run because of property taxes. Local government that is the primary. Revenue source for all of them and We are a huge county. We are just one of the largest jurisdictions in the United States and What's happening here is Uh, to stay a flight flip as we are trying to switch over from one computer system to another people looking at various exemptions that Out there, and there's a number of exemptions that people can get. And I think both the treasurer and the the county clerk We're trying to make sure that the number there is accurate as possible. I think the assessor intending to do the same, but because of the complexity of this, we're running late, and when we would normally get the tax bills out normally They would be out July 1st. And we would pay them on August 1st. And we had given taxpayers an extra 60 days because of Covid. So October 1st. You could still pay them without interest or penalties I've since This morning. I've been told that there's been a an understanding between the three principal offices, the treasurer that The professor that the tax bills will be mailed by September 1st due on October 1st. So that's a 60 day delay. And getting them out. And that 60 days affects these other taxing bodies with cash flow and that's what we were. I was talking about this morning and I quote you were Referring to so I mentioned the 1.8 million parcels. All of those parcels are part of districts that are all text differently. So after the assessor gets the assessment out Then the clerk Yarborough. She has to have a three week process to calculate it. Then pampas has to send out the property tax bills. But you say you've heard today that they will have them all out in hand. September 1st Right, but that's still 60 days beyond where we We should be. Now. The other factor in this is I always when I do a seminar for my constituents, I tell them that the property tax system is like the kid's game. Whack a mole. You know, we can maybe help you get your assessment. A little lower here or the tax rate for a community can go a little lower over here. But then it pops up somewhere else and one of the the other factors in computing the bills. Is the Equalizer, which the state of Illinois is supposed to put out and this is the highest. The equalizer has been almost 3.3%. And what that means is that the the state views are assessments in Cook County is being 300% below. What is the fair market value and what the other counties are at. So it's such a complex system that that you can expect that there are difficulties in getting together, but What we've got to do is help these governments have of dependent to be able to depend upon the number of the dates and the numbers that we're going to give them as how much cash they will have, Because a lot of these, some districts may have to borrow cash. To meet their cash flow. And that's always a bad, uh, bad policy, which means we have to cut programs of band for the first semester or what have you for the school district? That's exactly right. And When I first got on the board 18 years ago, the county was always sleep with these tax bills so that there was no real predictability and the Districts. We're all having to borrow with tax anticipation, notes. To get enough cash flow to be able to meet their obligations. Now, since President Preckwinkle has been in office the last 10 years she has made sure that we've been on time, so this will be the first time under her watch. That the tax bills will be late. But there's been some extraordinary circumstances, including people who are at the Sun Times and others looking to see the accuracy of some of the numbers. Hopefully, we are getting that under control, and I think the assessors staff has been working very hard and diligently to make sure those numbers are right. Larry suffered in his here. Cook County Board commissioner Any update on the $1 billion in federal covid relief money that came to Cook County specifically. Well, we've accepted the the federal government's Its offer, and we've received about 50% of that money. We are going to have at our next board meeting in July 29th an ordinance which will outline how we will begin to spend This money. In the meantime, President Preckwinkle is doing some listening tours around the county. Uh, earlier this week, all of the county officials other elected offices were Asked to give ideas for how to spend this money. Um, we intend it's over a three year period. We intend to included in our budgets as best we can. We've hired an outside consultant. Make sure we're following the federal guidance is but but at this point, I think if there are people who have ideas on how to spend this money that would stimulate the economy of Cook County improve the quality of life of Cook County. The county is definitely open to listening to those proposals. Wanted to get your take on the story that broke a couple days ago about the Cook County Board Review employee who is now under investigation by the FBI for taking kickbacks to lower People's assessments. Well, you know, it's a tragic story because you keep hoping that you're improving the quality of all these offices.
Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast
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"Now it's beginning to wane off a little bit and they're becoming concerned because of as you know the pfizer and the madonna are very Particular in how you have to handle those. They're concerned about some of the vaccine across the state. Sure you know expiring. I wonder about that. I have to wonder how many people are sitting there saying to themselves. You know what i mean. Hang out for the johnson and johnson shot now that that's rolling out. I wonder how many people who have in going after the two shot vaccine with modern visor are going to go okay. I'm ready for the johnson and johnson. And and i believe there are a lot more than just you and i didn't believe that exempts. Yeah i. I've been seeing on twitter. The new hashtag one and done one in done so getting that shot. It is encouraging when you look at henderson county. And we're sitting round at twenty six thousand of initial vega oven of vaccinations doses delivered. And we seen it this good in a year alec said i'm back in my office in there and listen we have meetings here I stayed on people's faces but They are there is concern that we will see another spike. But i like you agree in the fact that we are better capable of handling we have experienced or because everyone is forgotten that that one word that we no longer say is novel. Do we know a whole lot more now than we did. Then sure sure all right well folks. We're going to wrap it up because believe it or not. The county judge has things to do other than just hang out with knee judge. Thank you very much for spending some time with this telling us what's going on in our county government again. I say listen folks. Your local government is more important than what's going on in washington pay more attention to your city council. School board. commissioner's court. Thank you judge thank you..
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"John Giles, mayor of Mesa, Arizona, is in attendance. When you're mayor on you look out your window, and there's you know, line of 1000 cars of people at a food bank. Or another 1000 cars of people wanting to get vaccines. You know, this is it's just too important to T O engage in silly partisan debates, Millions of unemployed Americans are at risk of losing additional pandemic related assistance next month. The Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump resumes today with arguments from the defense NPR's Windsor Johnson reports. Trump's lawyers are expected to argue that their client did not encourage last month's insurrection at the U. S. Capitol. Trump's lawyers and some Republicans say House impeachment managers failed to tie the attack directly to trump and that they offered no proof or motive of his intent. Democrats wrapped up their case on Thursday, arguing the contrary. Trump's attorneys who they plan to conclude their defense today. Once they're finished, senators will have up to four hours to question both legal teams. A vote on whether to convict Trump could come as soon as tomorrow. NPR's Windsor Johnston reporting. This is NPR news Live from KQED News. I'm Brian what San Francisco City attorney is asking a judge to force the city school district to reopen schools. His office filed an injunction yesterday, adding to a lawsuit he filed last week. KQED S Julia McEvoy reports the courts won't hear the motion until March. 22nd City Attorney Dennis Herrera says schools should be forced to reopen to prevent further harm to students. Mental health due to virtual learning The earlier lawsuit claims the district is violating students state constitutional right to attend school. It has been quite awkward, frankly to be finger pointed at by city officials, that school board commissioner Mark Sanchez, speaking at Tuesday's board meeting, one critical piece to reopening safely is testing of staff and students. Sanchez says the city has failed to respond to several requests for help there. I think we've been really restrained in our response in terms of the finger pointing But I'm getting at my wits end at this one. The city did help the district secure a contract with the testing company curative, but it fell apart when the tests proved somewhat unreliable. Teacher Razor. Abner is angry. The lawsuit is trying to force teachers back, but she also sees a silver lining. I do think the pressure of the lawsuit made the district agree. Who? The MOU That's the health and safety memorandum of understanding that teachers and the district just agreed to one step of several needed before they get back inside schools. I'm.
KTLK 1130 AM
"board commissioners" Discussed on KTLK 1130 AM
"He's a nickel, a diner owner says Almost every business within two blocks of me has been a victim of crime in the last three months, almost every almost every business You could extend that out of luring park, you know? Yeah, I would venture to say, And I'd be curious to know if anybody's been been running stats on this, but I would venture to say that the majority Of at least retail businesses and restaurant type businesses in Minneapolis have experienced crime an uptick in crime over the last few months, and that should be unacceptable to everybody involved in running this city yet they don't seem to have any sort of plan or any idea of what to do about it. The owner of Nikola Diner, says his business was robbed twice in one week by the same person. I don't mean to laugh mean I don't know if he's already know you. You be the laughter cry. Which one do you do? Sam Turner says one employee has already quit because of it, and he worries about the safety of his other 50 workers. I'm still in a state of shock, said Turner. I never imagined it would happen once, let alone twice in a short period of time. I mean, this goes back to it to Brian Ingram of the No. Maybe five times. So and over and over and again, you know, I'll repeat it. But a lot of these crimes are being done by the same people. They're not being put away. Their being. The police are doing the best that they can. And we hear from police all the time. The police you know, when you arrest the same person over and over and over and over what else? What else are the cops supposed to do? The Star Tribune's got an article and it's an interesting read on dwell We'll get. We'll kind of double back at the end to how the Star Tribune contributes to that This story is pretty much just coverage and talking to individuals and getting their thoughts, right? But there's a really really interesting quotes in this thing. Violent crimes have soared 21% Minneapolis last year. Adding a painful coda to the city's struggles and coping with a deadly pandemic and widespread protests against racial injustice. The city has recorded 5422 violent crime incidents. Homicides, rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, according to the preliminary year and Minneapolis police stats. That is a dramatic jump over the previous five years, which averaged roughly 4496 such crimes, which is not good, either, by the way. That's an average over the last five years. If you break that out, year by year by year, you can see the uptick right from year to year to year. Which makes you really concerned about how bad can 2021 get because they haven't done a damn thing? No, it's only try to stem this. This this trend know they made a call earlier, he actually appropriately labeled at the Wild West. I mean, it is the Wild West. There's just It just looked good crew. Criminality is reigning supreme right now. On, I arrange of mental health experts and community leaders say the increase in violence is unlikely due to any one factor he must weigh. Can't blame it on the Republican. I know right? So it's you know, when you can't just point a finger to Republican and go, it's their fault and it's so nuanced and it's so complicated and it's really difficult. Hammer down the reasons behind it. Most laid the blame largely on the pandemic. Which has left many home job many jobless and struggling to pay their bills, shuttered schools and worsened the lack of affordable housing. Yes, that's what it is. People are out there doing crime because they can't get affordable housing. I'll give you the pandemic. If only you're using the pandemic as a means to point to the leadership and the excuses that they've used for not going and doing the right thing in staffing up law enforcement cause they have they've been using the cover of the pandemic. To push their own progressive agendas, Then I'll that I'll add that you can add in the pandemic as well. But only in the respect that the government response to the pandemic has made a lot of people very desperate right because it has put tons and tons of people out of work. Violent crime has climbed in almost every part of the city. Huh? On the North side. The fifth Ward saw violent crime, a crime climate 36% over the five year average. The ninth Ward had 16 homicides in 2020. After never recording more than four in any of the previous five years. Citywide. 553 people were struck by gunfire. Can you stop? Can we stop? Just there for a second, like I'd like to see what the average I would like to see the average coming out of like the same time period back when we had troops in Iraq like I'm like I'm legitimately curious like how many times were our own military shot versus what's been happening on the streets of Minneapolis, right? 553 people start struck by gunfire last year, highest tally in the in the past 15 years. The city recorded by the years and 84 homicides. We're gonna stop here because this is where it gets. We're going to take a deep breath because here's when we get into this stupid because we start actually hearing from Park board commissioners and professors of the University of ST Thomas School of Law, and you be good. I really want to hear some professors chime in on this. What's fascinating about that Drew is that they actually speak the truth. They just didn't realize that they did. Yeah, we'll give you the details Next. Don't go anywhere. 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