On Monday, Feb 6, 2012, IL Governor Quinn signed into law IL Senate Bill 965, which gives Mayor Emmanuel and the “statist state”of Chicago the authority to install speeding cameras around schools and parks. The purported reason is “for safety of the children” by ensuring safe traffic around these zones via camera enforcement. This bill [...]
About Jim Economos
Jim Economos is a practicing dentist in Bartlett, Illinois. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University, and University of Illinois College of Dentistry.
Rolling Knolls Golf Club – a Cook County boondoggle
September 15, 2011 By
What can only be described as yet another Cook County governmental boondoggle illustrates what’s wrong with “The County.” In this case it’s with the Cook County Forest Preserve, while a separate entity from the Cook County government itself, the decisions were approved by the Cook County Board. This happened year in 2010 when it was [...]
Luxury Tax and Plasma TVs
September 9, 2011 By
In the lame duck portion of the now retired (thank God), 111th Congress, there was all of this whining about the Bush Tax cuts for the rich, blah blah, blah, which fortunately was extended with some changes. The Bush tax cuts should be continued in perpetuity, in spite of the obvious Liberal objection for those [...]
Deep in the Heart of Texas
August 30, 2011 By
The success Texas exhibits compared to democratically run states like Illinois, California and New York, is so dramatic, that only the most ignorant or politically biased don’t care to recognize it. Texas is a state which Illinois, the federal government, and poorly run aforementioned states should model themselves after. If they did, they would replicate [...]
Meigs Field is missed, Illinois economy still hurt by its closing
Illinois needs more economic activity and a beautiful downtown Chicago airport would certainly help achieve this as well as send a signal to others that Illinois is open for business once again. Memo to the new Chicago Mayor – as the great Ronald Reagan said to Russian president Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear [...]