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Former Illinois state Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) presented more evidence on Friday that she alleges confirms that Breakthrough Ideas, the policy group she co-founded, was correct in its initial assessment of an unlawful vote by a former DuPage County resident.
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The nomination of Columbia Law Professor Lina Khan to the Federal Trade Commission last month raised speculation as to whether there might be a new era of antitrust enforcement under the Biden Administration. If confirmed, Ms. Khan would fill former FTC Chairperson Joseph Simon's vacant seat, leaving one more remaining vacancy for President Biden to fill after Democratic Commissioner Rohit Chopra leaves to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. 1 Biden's next appointment is anticip...
Voters in Milton Township this week rejected a proposed referendum that sought to create a new government entity that opponents say could have meant a tax increase of 350%. With Illinois residents already paying the highest property taxes in the country as a percentage of home value, Advocacy group Breakthrough Ideas was among the organizations encouraging taxpayers to make a stand for themselves. “This is a big victory for local taxpayers,” Jeanne Ives, CEO and co-founder of the organization launched earlier this year said in a press release. “We believe another tax would be a financia...
The car! >> when these things were first starting to pop up in the mid 1980s, the customers were people who had a business reason for having these things. or a super-rich dude who just wanted to show off. the big breakthrough idea was the idea of cellular systems. >> it's called cellular because your car phone is tied into different radio transmitters, each one called a cell. as you travel, the signal from your phone travels from cell to cell. >> this was something that had never been done before. >> if you don't have one now, you probably will have one in a decade, say the phone makers, as th...
Having these things. or a super-rich dude who just wanted to show off. the big breakthrough idea was the idea of cellular systems. >> it's called cellular because your car phone is tied into different radio transmitters, each one called a cell. as you travel, the signal from your phone travels from cell to cell. >> this was something that had never been done before. >> if you don't have one now, you probably will have one in a decade, say the phonemakers, as the price comes down into the range of other high-tech toys. >> there were people who understood even in the early days that being trappe...