CL Library Bond Referendum Opponents Surface Literature
The folks behind the signs asking people to vote against the Crystal Lake Library advisory referendum on borrowing $30.1 million have a handout. You can read it below: This is what the opponents to the...
View ArticleCL Library Trustee Counters Bond Opponents’ Handout
A communication from CL Library Trustee Bill Weller about the piece posted yesterday against the $30.1 million advisory referendum put on the ballot by the Crystal Lake City Council: A “Vote Yes” sign...
View ArticleMessage of the Day – Signs
Found this combination of signs in Crystal Lake. One is for Democratic Party District 2 McHenry County Board candidate Dominique Miller and the other is urging people to vote in favor of the Crystal...
View ArticleWorking CL Streets For and Against the $30.1 Million New Library Referendum
What the two pitches looked like when placed side by side. Out in my precinct this past week I saw the remnants of people having campaigned for and against the advisory referendum on a $31.2 million...
View ArticlePassage of CL Library Advisory Bond Referendum Will Result in Tax Hike
Crystal Lake Library Director Kathryn Martens attended the CL Kiwanis Club luncheon Wednesday. Kiwanis has donated money to provide introduction bags to the moms of newborn babies. Besides that she...
View ArticleCL Library Bond Issue Supporters Make Another Mailing
Here is the “closer” in the campaign to convince Crystal Lake voters to vote to increase their real estate tax bills by an average of $132 per year for the next twenty years. On the address side of...
View ArticleFranks Continues Trying to Keep County Board Off Balance
Jack FranksMcHenry County Board Chairman Jack Franks continues his Lone Ranger approach to County government, despite saying he wants to work collaboratively. His latest foray is telling the members...
View ArticleJack Franks Skeptic Addresses Second Advisory Referendum to Cut the Size of...
From the experience of 1982 when voters passed a Constitutional Amendment to cut the size of the Illinois House by one-third and the election of Joe Tirio as Recorder of Deeds on a platform of doing...
View ArticleJust a Conicidence
In Kevin Craver’s article in the Northwest Herald Saturday, he reports that McHenry County Board Chairman is backing off on his announced plan to put proposals for three non-binding advisory...
View ArticleAdvisory Referendums Killed
Two advisory referendums that McHenry County Board Chairman Jack Franks announced he wanted on the ballot in April were voted down by a vote of 17-7. They would ask about prohibiting increases in tax...
View ArticleCL Library Bond Referendum Opponents Surface Literature
The folks behind the signs asking people to vote against the Crystal Lake Library advisory referendum on borrowing $30.1 million have a handout. You can read it below: This is what the opponents to the...
View ArticleCL Library Trustee Counters Bond Opponents’ Handout
A communication from CL Library Trustee Bill Weller about the piece posted yesterday against the $30.1 million advisory referendum put on the ballot by the Crystal Lake City Council: A “Vote Yes” sign...
View ArticleMessage of the Day – Signs
Found this combination of signs in Crystal Lake. One is for Democratic Party District 2 McHenry County Board candidate Dominique Miller and the other is urging people to vote in favor of the Crystal...
View ArticleWorking CL Streets For and Against the $30.1 Million New Library Referendum
What the two pitches looked like when placed side by side. Out in my precinct this past week I saw the remnants of people having campaigned for and against the advisory referendum on a $31.2 million...
View ArticlePassage of CL Library Advisory Bond Referendum Will Result in Tax Hike
Crystal Lake Library Director Kathryn Martens attended the CL Kiwanis Club luncheon Wednesday. Kiwanis has donated money to provide introduction bags to the moms of newborn babies. Besides that she...
View ArticleCL Library Bond Issue Supporters Make Another Mailing
Here is the “closer” in the campaign to convince Crystal Lake voters to vote to increase their real estate tax bills by an average of $132 per year for the next twenty years. On the address side of...
View ArticleFranks Continues Trying to Keep County Board Off Balance
Jack FranksMcHenry County Board Chairman Jack Franks continues his Lone Ranger approach to County government, despite saying he wants to work collaboratively. His latest foray is telling the members...
View ArticleJack Franks Skeptic Addresses Second Advisory Referendum to Cut the Size of...
From the experience of 1982 when voters passed a Constitutional Amendment to cut the size of the Illinois House by one-third and the election of Joe Tirio as Recorder of Deeds on a platform of doing...
View ArticleJust a Conicidence
In Kevin Craver’s article in the Northwest Herald Saturday, he reports that McHenry County Board Chairman is backing off on his announced plan to put proposals for three non-binding advisory...
View ArticleAdvisory Referendums Killed
Two advisory referendums that McHenry County Board Chairman Jack Franks announced he wanted on the ballot in April were voted down by a vote of 17-7. They would ask about prohibiting increases in tax...
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