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February Flashback: “President Non Compos Mentis”

Posted in Clown Car, Deception, Ethics, Immigration, John Kass News, OP/Ed, Politics, Public Safety on July 2, 2024| Leave a Comment »

The Observer posted the following on February 12 of this year. We believe current events warrant republishing this piece by John Kass.

By John Kass | February 11, 2024

Do you really think the bizarre angry-old-man cane waving performance of President Non Compos Mentis demonstrates his fitness for office?

Because after that politically disastrous news conference in the White House is where we are now.

Biden is no longer mentally fit to be commander-in-chief. He’s an empty husk. I told you he was a meat puppet years ago. Last week, on national television, he proved it.

The world is on the edge of war. China is pushing us in the Pacific, Iran pushes us across the Middle East. Russia is taking Ukraine, despite our war party’s best effort to bring us to the edge of world war. And the president is not in possession of his right mind. He’s slow and senile and the world can see it.

He is President Non Compos Mentis. That is lawyer talk, Latin for “of unsound mind.”

How did this come about? Biden’s Justice Department the other day ruled that the president was not mentally fit to stand trial on the issue of whether he’d illegally and for years taken top secret documents and stored them in broken boxes in his messy garage. He did willfully take the documents. He did in fact put them in broken boxes in his junky garage.

But the special prosecutor appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland declined to press charges. Why? Biden is unfit to stand trial.

He’s not fit to stand trial, but he’s fit to be president?

Read on here.

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Special Zoning Board Public Hearing scheduled for July 17th

Posted in Algonquin Rd, Animal Welfare, Barrington Hills Park District, Barrington Hills Polo Club, Board of Health, Commercial Horse Boarding, Equestrian Commission, Fox River Valley Hunt, FRVPC, Goat Rodeo, Horse Boarding, Immigration, Insurance Committee, Land Use, Lighting Ordinance, Politics, Privacy, Property Taxes, Public Hearing, Public Safety, Real Estate, Riding Club Commission, Riding Club of Barrington Hills, Traffic, VBHPD, Village Clerk, Village Code, Village Government, Zoning Board on June 28, 2024| Leave a Comment »

“PUBLIC HEARING Before the Zoning Board of Appeals Village of Barrington Hills, Re: Barrington Hills Polo Club – Amendment of Special Use Permit 350 Bateman Road, Barrington Hills Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held on July 17, 2024, at 6:30 PM by the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of Barrington Hills (“Village”) in the MacArthur Room of the Village Hall, 112 Algonquin Road, concerning the application for an amendment to an existing special use, subject to the provisions of Section 5-10-7 of the Zoning Ordinance, for the Oakwood Farms Polo Field, located at 350 Bateman Road. The amendment is sought to:

  1. allow the Barrington Hills Polo Club to use the Polo Field on Sundays,
  2. extend the polo season to October 31 each year, and
  3. permit the sale of 3500 adult tickets for its yearly public event.

The special use being amended was granted by the Village Board pursuant to Ordinance 15-06.

The location and legal description of the Subject Property, otherwise identified by Property Tax Index Number of 01-07-200-001-0000 as set forth on the plat of survey to be found on file in the office of the Village Clerk.

A copy of the application for the Amended Special Use Permit is available for examination by appointment at the office of the Village Clerk at Barrington Hills Village Hall during normal business hours, Monday – Friday, 9 AM – 5PM. All interested parties are invited to attend the Public Hearing and will be given an opportunity to be heard.”

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One Year In, Johnson’s City Council Spends One-Third of its Time on Honorary Resolutions

Posted in Better Government Association, Cook, County, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Immigration, Politics, Preckwinkle's Rules of Order, Taxes, Unions on May 16, 2024| Leave a Comment »

By Geoffrey Cubbage | Better Government Association

A year of City Council meetings since the 2023 elections hasn’t seen much change in the body’s time management: Roughly one-third of regular meeting time, from the end of public comment to adjournment, is still spent on honorary, non-binding resolutions, much as it was under the Lightfoot administration.

What has changed is the frequency with which the body meets. City Council has held multiple regular meetings in six of the past twelve months, compared to only two months per year in which the Council held multiple meetings during the three Lightfoot years for which full digital recordings exist. Johnson’s first year in office has also seen more special sessions called: seven since last May, compared to three in the year previous.

The result has been a seesaw of meetings, some of which are more than half comprised of honorary speeches and others of which are entirely spent on binding legislative matters.

Since inauguration on May 15, 2023, the current Council has held 23 regular meetings, totalling roughly 52 and a half hours of official business. (Totals do not include the pledge of allegiance, invocation, and public comment period that precede meetings. Those introductory matters typically add another 30 to 45 minutes to each meeting.)

Under Mayor Brandon Johnson, the body has spent roughly 17 hours on honorary, non-binding resolutions, and just under 36 hours on binding legislation. All told, 32% of the Council’s time in session has been devoted to honorary matters. During the three years of Mayor Lightfoot’s administration for which digital recordings are available, the Council spent 36% of its time on non-binding or honorary matters.

Those totals do not include appointments to city positions, which often include tributary speeches similar to resolutions, but which conclude in an official, binding action by the Council.

Read more here.

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Fuhgeddaboudit

Posted in BACOG, Barbarian Migrants in Busses at the Gate, Big Red, Clown Car, DARCHED, Deception, Ethics, Immigration, Land Disconnection, Land Use, MOOBS, Newsletters, OMA, One Barrington Hills, OP/Ed, Organizations, Politics, Privacy, Property Taxes, Riding Club of Barrington Hills, Road construction, Roads & Bridges Committee, SNAFU, Transparency, VBHPD, Village Code, Village Government, Village President, Zoning Board on May 3, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Current Barrington Hills President Brian Cecola

Our Village recently posted their ”Spring 2024” newsletter. This issue includes:

  • President’s Letter
  • Police Chief Colditz Retires in July
  • HAVE A CUP O’ “JOE” WITH CHIEF COLDITZ
  • Police Department Earns Reaccreditation
  • Lunch with a Cop
  • Arbor Day and Earth Day! How did you observe these days?
  • Road Program 2024
  • Soon to make an appearance…2024 Cicadas, and
  • June 29 Land We Love Run

What the newsletter lacks is a considerable number of updates from Q-1 2024 that residents should be aware of, including:

  • In a special meeting January 3, the Board voted to amend our code to, “Create a license requirement for (migrant) chartered transportation drop-off services (no doubt to prevent the godless hoards if immigrants from soiling the new floor in the lobby of Village Hall)).”
  • Increased penalty amounts for Code violations.
  • Any information whatsoever on the Board’s vote in February to annex seven (7) parcels of land into Barrington Hills.
  • The Village is purchasing and replacing security video recording and management systems in Village Hall, and
  • The Zoning Board is reviewing significant updates and addition to codes including fence/berm allowed heights, regulations for roof and/or ground mounted solar panels and wind energy systems and codes covering anything mobile residents might store on their property.

Further, minutes from the February meeting of BACOG include, “Cecola reported the Village recently annexed two landscaping businesses.” Why didn’t “Cecola” bother to drop this and other meaningful nuggets content into his message to residents?

The answer is simple. The Cecola administration does not want informed residents. Sure, this publication and others have done their best to inform residents. But clearly when it comes what we share with our readers, our president would rather you just fuhgeddaboudit.

A copy of the newsletter can be found here.

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Barrington Hills Park District Board (RCBH) meets tonight

Posted in Agendas, Barrington Hills Park District, Barrington Hills Polo Club, Big Brother, Big Red, Cell Towers, Countryside Elementary School, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Don't Change Barrington Hills, Equestrian Commission, Ethics, Financial Statements, Fox River Valley Hunt, FPDCC, FRVPC, Horizon Farm, Horse Boarding, Immigration, Intergovernmental agreements (IGA), Land Use, Look For The Union Label, Mad Cows, Open Meetings Act, Politics, Property Taxes, Public Safety, Real Estate, Riding Center Advisory Committee, Riding Club of Barrington Hills, Transparency, Well Water Quality, Your Barrington Hills on April 10, 2024| Leave a Comment »

The Barrington Hills Park District Board/Riding Club of Barrington Hills will hold their monthly meeting this evening in person and via Zoom at 7:00 PM. Some items on their agenda include:

  • Administrators Report:
    • Replacement computer for Administrator
    • MAG purchase
    • Tennis bid dates chosen
    • Storing statues
    • New Locks for Tractor Shed
    • Labor to install camera focusing on Tractor Shed (camera & equipment purchased last year)
    • Organizing the Tractor Shed; approve labor cost for Octavio & Kim to organize
    • Pony Club’s items in Tractor Shed organized or taken to different storage area
    • BHPD trailer cleaned and parked outside with sale sign and price posted
    • Manure spreader cleaned and stored in public area with sale sign and price posted
    • Mice nesting in the tractors
    • Make large “Horse Show” sign portable by installing wheels
    • Purchase tennis court drying roller
  • Tractor purchase review
  • Project Requests to review and policy for submitting requests
  • Advisory Committee Report
  • Rental Requests
  • Review Rental Agreement Forms, with costs added for dressage arena and round pen rentals
  • Review Riding Center Rules

A copy of their agenda can be viewed here. Instructions for accessing the meeting remotely can be found here.

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Chicago’s crime numbers must have DNC organizers sweating

Posted in Cook, County, Crime, Immigration, Look For The Union Label, Politics, Preckwinkle's Rules of Order, Taxes, Unions on April 9, 2024| Leave a Comment »

By: Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner | Wirepoints

The Democratic National Convention is coming to Chicago in August and its organizers are likely sweating over the potential mess it might become. Not because of the pro-Palestinian protests that are likely to occur, but because of Chicago’s unabated crime.

It’s a mess that Chicago Mayor Johnson and other city officials have been incapable of addressing.

Chicago continues to lead the entire nation this year in total homicides. The number of violent crime victims in the city is at a six-year high. And the city’s robbery spree continues. Take what happened just days ago when “A group of armed men needed just 45 minutes to rob eight businesses from the Loop to Lakeview on Thursday morning.”

Yes, overall major crimes in the city are down 12% in 2024, but that’s coming off of the post-pandemic record number of crimes committed last year. More than 17,600 major crimes had been committed by this point in 2023, the most of the last five years.

A big driver of 2024’s smaller crime numbers is a decline in motor vehicle theft – down 24% over last year. Theft and burglary are down as well. However, violent crimes like robbery and aggravated battery are worse compared to last year.

That’s led to a growing number of victims of violent crime. More than 7,500 Chicagoans have been victims of a violent crime so far in 2024 – the highest number since at least 2019.

Homicides are also still plaguing the city. They are down 5% vs. the same time period last year, but they are still 26% higher than in 2019, before the current crime mess started. So far this year, there have been 111 murders through March 31, the most of any big city in the country. In 2019, there were 88.

And this year’s 5% homicide drop pales compared to what’s happening in some of the nation’s biggest cities. In Phoenix, homicides are down 39%. In Philly, they’ve fallen by 37%. And in New York, homicides have dropped 17%.

More here.

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District 220 Board of Education meets tonight

Posted in 220, Agendas, Barrington Education Association, Barrington High School, Board of Education, Deception, District 220 referendum, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Ethics, Immigration, Look For The Union Label, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, School Districts, Unions, Video Streaming, What the Ficke (Bradford)? on April 2, 2024| Leave a Comment »

The District 220 Board of Education meets this evening at 6:30 PM at the District Administration Center, 515 W. Main Street. Topics on their agenda include:

  • FOIA Reports
  • Revised Personnel Report
  • Consideration to Approve Food Service Bid
  • Referendum Phase 2 (Marketing) Update
  • Proposed 2025-26 Academic Calendar

A copy of the agenda can be viewed here. The meeting will be live-streamed on the district YouTube channel.

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Editorial: Illinois is stalled, and a miserable tax environment is a major cause.

Posted in Chicago Tribune, Commodius Maximus, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Ethics, Immigration, Look For The Union Label, OP/Ed, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, Scott Stantis, Springfield, Taxes, Unions on March 6, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Scott Stantis for the Chicago tribune

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Chicago Tribune

A recent report from Moody’s Analytics on the economic state of Chicago and Illinois is sobering and should give pause to progressive politicians determined to find new ways to raise taxes, particularly on the business community.

Chicago and Illinois lag not only the country as a whole but, worryingly, even most of the Midwest. Chicago’s economy “is showing signs of fatigue,” according to the report last month, which was commissioned by the state’s Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.

Employment growth lags the country and the region. Since the last quarter of 2019, right before the pandemic struck, Illinois’ nonfarm jobs are up just 0.4% compared with 1.1% in the Midwest and 3.9% nationally.

There are a number of other statistics telling the same story.

The private sector job machine is slowing. The job growth that is being produced is coming from public or near-public sectors like government and health care. Business and professional services — high-paying jobs supporting households that are substantial tax contributors — are shrinking.

The economy in Illinois — and Chicago in particular — is nearly stalled. If this were the case everywhere else in the U.S., we could point to broader economic trends as the culprit. But while growth elsewhere in the U.S. has slowed as expected due to higher interest rates, it’s still chugging along at a noticeably faster clip than here in the nation’s third largest urban region. And the flagship of the Midwest.

Why?

Economists will point to different factors, but one that’s impossible to dispute is the heavy tax burden on business. Illinois ranks 45th of the 50 states in terms of the taxes businesses must shoulder, according to the report. Overall, the state’s average business costs are modestly worse than average — the state’s ranking there is 30th. That’s thanks mainly to lower energy costs than in much of the rest of the U.S. And even that advantage is eroding, the report states.

Read on here.

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District 220 Board of Education meets tonight

Posted in 220, Agendas, Animal Welfare, Barrington Education Association, Board of Education, Deception, District 220 referendum, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Education, Ethics, His Master's Voice, Immigration, Look For The Union Label, Organizations, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, School Districts, Taxes, Unions, Video Streaming, What the Ficke (Bradford)? on March 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »

The District 220 Board of Education meets this evening at 6:30 PM at the District Administration Center, 515 W. Main Street. Topics on their agenda include:

  • Consideration to Approve a Resolution Authorizing the Honorable Dismissal Due to Reduction in Force of Part-Time or Full-Time Educational Support Staff
  • Resolution Establishing Intent to Implement Full-Day Kindergarten for the 2024-25 School Year
  • Consideration to Approve the Release of Confidentiality of Closed Session Minutes

A copy of the agenda can be viewed here. The meeting will be live-streamed on the district YouTube channel.

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Editorial: Populist Pritzker and the fine print of his budget proposal

Posted in Illinois Policy Institute, Immigration, Look For The Union Label, OP/Ed, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Springfield, Taxes on February 29, 2024| 1 Comment »

Tax hikes on businesses and individuals didn’t make the cut in Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s budget address, but they’re a big part of his budget proposal.

Illinois Policy Institute 

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is doing and saying things lots of Illinoisans like. The governor just pushed back on the notion of public funding for a new White Sox stadium, saying, “The idea of taking taxpayers dollars and subsidizing the building of a stadium… does not seem like [it] should have higher priority. These are private businesses.”

He’s right on that front. The governor also called for the elimination of the state’s grocery tax in his budget address last week. Many people cheered. After all, Illinois is the only big state in the country to tack on a grocery tax at checkout.

Not everyone was cheering, though. Especially local government leaders, who realized they were losing a hefty source of tax revenue. That’s because 100% of the grocery taxes we’ve all been paying flowed to local leaders, to the tune of “hundreds of millions of dollars,” according to the Illinois Municipal League’s Brad Cole.

Local governments aren’t the only ones taking a hit. Businesses and the people who own them are in for discomfort, too, in the form of major tax changes.

Here’s the breakdown of Pritzker’s $898 million in tax hikes on businesses and individuals:

  • Extending the cap on net operating losses. This would result in a $526 million tax hike for companies. Only two other states – Pennsylvania and New Hampshire – place caps on the amount of net operating losses a business can claim. Illinois’ corporate income tax rate is also the second-highest in the nation.
  • Increasing the sports gambling tax rate from 15% to 35%. Estimated to bring in an additional $200 million.
  • Capping the retailer’s discount on sales and use taxes to generate an extra $186 million. This is essentially a corporate tax hike on any business that sells a product that’s subjected to the sales tax, whether it’s Barnes & Noble or your local independent bookstore.
  • $93 million hidden individual income tax hike. This move will reduce the value of Illinois’ standard income tax exemption, subjecting an additional $225 of income to taxation per taxpayer and dependent. After years of rampant inflation, Pritzker is shortchanging the inflation adjustment on the state’s standard exemption for individual income taxes. By limiting the growth in the value of this exemption, Illinois taxpayers are facing a $93 million income tax hike. This tax increase would disproportionately fall on lower-income earners who receive a larger tax break from the exemption than higher-income earners.

Read more here.

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