Elgin Illinois - The Elginite

Last summer, Rep. Brian Baird (D., Wash.) took a four-day trip to the Galápagos Islands with his wife, four other lawmakers and their family members. The lawmakers spent $22,000 on meals and hotels, records show. Mr. Baird, a member of the House Science Committee, said the trip was to learn about global warming.

Bill Foster had enough horse sense to figure out that the Cap-and-Tax bill was bad news for America and the 14th district, which will shed nearly 5,000 jobs as a result of it, according to one study. Melissa Bean, on the other hand put nonsense before horse sense and voted for the Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Tax bill, under which you can expect to pay a hell of a lot more for gasoline, electricity and everything else.
She used to be a Blue Dog Democrat, that is to say, a fiscally conservative Democrat, but …

The City Council directed staff to review Elgin’s ordinance, which requires that pets be leashed at all times when that pet is not on the owner’s property. If a pet is not leashed, the owner could be fined $50, city officials said. There are provisions in Elgin’s codes that would require an owner to surrender a pet if it is deemed a public danger or is suspected to have been involved in a biting incident.

Farnham thinks more can be done by state government to put its own finances in order. He mentioned writing a letter to Quinn’s office in May, decrying the state Department of Human Services spending $58 million in overtime costs “when they could have saved over half that amount if new employees had been hired instead.”

Even Warren Buffett, a prominent supporter of Barack Obama, acknowledges that the bill would destroy the economy at a time when we can least absorb the shock. Under Cap-and-Tax your gasoline prices can rise as much as a dollar per gallon.

Independence Day fireworks are still on for almost all cities in the area this year, but Elgin has canceled this year’s fireworks show because of budget problems.

ELBURN – Ethan Hastert has announced he’ll run for his father’s old seat in Congress.
Hastert, 31, said Monday that he’s forming a committee to begin his campaign and fundraising for the 14th District Congressional seat. He’s the first candidate to officially announce a run at the seat in 2010.
Although he’s never run for office, Hastert, a Republican, said he’s been around the process through his father’s political career. Dennis Hastert represented the 14th District from 1987 to 2007 – serving as Speaker of the House for about eight years of …