Sunday, October 14, 2012
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is proposing a tax on the purchase of guns and ammunition.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has proposed a 'violence tax' that would be applied to the purchase of guns and ammunition, the Huffington Post reported. The Chicago Sun-Times reported the tax would be meant to generate revenue, curb the number of guns in circulation, and offset the societal cost of gun violence. Preckwinkle's chief of staff, Kurt Summers, told the Sun-Times that the average health care cost to treat a gunshot victim is $52,000. He added that 70 percent gunshot victims do not have health insurance. The tax plan faces opposition by the Illinois State Rifle Association. The organization's excutive director, Richard Pearson told the Huffington Post that the proposal as "just another scheme concocted by the …
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said criminalizing non-violent, low level drug offenders was costly and ineffective.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle decried the war on drugs and its cost to society Wednesday at the Palatine Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast. Preckwinkle was asked a question about reforming the criminal justice system and Cook County Jail during the breakfast at The Cotillion, 360 S. Creekside Drive. “We have 5 percent of the world’s population and we have 25 percent of the world’s prison population. So unless you think that Americans are more likely to be criminals than people elsewhere in the world, we are doing something terribly wrong,” Preckwinkle said. “And it’s extraordinarily expensive.” Preckwinkle said the yearly cost of housing a single prisoner exceeds $50,000 a year. She said that 70 percent of the Cook County …
Friday, July 8, 2011
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced county departments will set and track goals through the STAR system.
Cook County is working to be more efficient and to hold departments accountable for the quality of their performance, county board president Toni Preckwinkle said Thursday. The county released its first quarterly performance management report. Preckwinkle said the Set Targets Achieve Results (STAR) reports will help streamline county services. "Performance management gives us the opportunity to change the culture of the County and begin a new chapter in county government," Preckwinkle said at the County Building in Chicago. Preckwinkle said STAR is designed to boost accountability and lower the cost of government by setting and tracking goals for each county agency and department. A full copy of the first STAR report can be found here. …
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle will attend the April 11 Village Council meeting.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle will answer questions about county services from the village when she attends Palatine's April 11 Village Council meeting. "She wants to talk about what she's doing, but it's also a chance to hear directly from people who might have concerns," said Preckwinkle's Communication Director Jessey Neves. Some Palatine officials have voiced concerns in recent years about the amount of tax money Palatine sends to the county in relation to the level of service the community receives back. District 5 Council member Jack Wagner said Palatine sends $19 million to $20 million a year to the county. Wagner said he'd like a better idea of how that money is spent and what Palatine receives in return for it. "She…
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McCloud
6:42 pm on Friday, October 19, 2012
Hostile attitude from reading polls is my guess. Strap yourself in for eight years, as the economy will rebound almost immediately to my delight. Ahhhhh morning in America. more ›