The Cardinal

Arlington Heights, along with other municipalities in the Northwest Municipal Conference, are asking residents to join our voices in contacting their State Representatives and Senators to tell them to VOTE NO on ANY diversion of local government revenues. The Governor and the General Assembly are planning to divert revenues due to local governments in order [...]

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The Board of Commissioners of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) has passed an ordinance directing the Cook County Clerk to reduce the tax levy for 2012 by $19.7 million. The MWRD is a government agency responsible for treating wastewater and providing stormwater management. The agency was created in 1889 to protect [...]

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The Village Board of Arlington Heights voted a smaller tax levy increase than proposed one week ago. A 1.2 percent increase for a home valued at $300,000, would bring a $12 increase to the 2013 property tax bill. The increase is about half the cost of the $20 increase trustees unanimously approved at the Committee [...]

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The economic recession that began in 2007 exposed and aggravated a government fiscal crisis that had been brewing for many years at the national, state, and municipal levels of the U.S. Slow or negative economic growth, falling housing values, rising government [...]

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Dear Paul B, I am shocked and saddened to learn that firefighters stood by to watch a trailer home burn right down to the ground. Have these people lost their minds? I HAD such a warm fuzzy for firefighters after 9-11, and now I wonder what’s wrong with these Tennessee BUMS!! People could have been [...]

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Leading congressional Republicans renewed their vehement opposition to tax increases Wednesday, as President Barack Obama prepared to put forth his new prescription to combat slow growth and national indebtedness. “Most people understand that Washington doesn’t have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem,” said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va. “We can’t raise taxes. [...]

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Tax reduction by Schaumburg officials is the plan — ever since November 2009 Schaumburg officials warned that a property tax was needed to counter a deficit of over $17.5 million. When the property tax was instated, Schaumburg officials promised to reverse the property tax when officials first established it last year to brace against the [...]

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