Category: Alderman Fioretti
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Aldermen Push For What?
This is just insane: On Sunday, Aldermen Deborah Graham (29th), Robert Fioretti (2nd), and Toni Foulkes (15th) joined members of the Chicago Teachers Union, Action Now, and a group of parents and community safety advocates for a press conference urging Mayor Rahm Emanuel to make the Vacant Property Safe Passages Ordinance a priority. If approved,…
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No Tax Refund if You Owe Parking Tickets
Really? Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday referred to people and businesses with unpaid city debts as “the deadbeats and the delinquents” after winning City Council approval to intercept their state income tax refunds to collect millions of dollars. … At every level we have protected the taxpayers of the city of Chicago by not raising…
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New Ward Map Confusing? Try Getting a Garbage Can
Excellent points raised by Greg Hinz over at Crain’s. Ask folks at City Hall whether new or old wards apply for purposes of voting, zoning and distribution of services and the like and, after a couple of shrugs, you’ll get a multipart answer fit for an SAT test. … “We’re dealing with the old aldermen,”…
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Ward Remap: Round Two
Alderman Bob Fioretti 2nd Ward, one of eight alderman to vote no on the map, stated in his email newsletter on Thursday that he has no intentions of dropping the issue. “I believe that new map breaks up communities of interest and includes deviations in population from ward to ward, which may subject it to…
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Position on TIFs
Well it took some doing, but I have completed my policy on TIFs. This is critically important to the sustainability of the city moving forward. We cannot survive continuing to go further and further into debt year after year while our schools are failing and the TIF funds are growing bigger and bigger. We need…
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Parking Meter Analysis
So Monday is the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board review for the Second Ward candidates and as I was having breakfast this morning I got to thinking. How bad really was the parking meter deal? So I started poking around to find out. Ten minutes later I was shocked!! Based on this story here I estimated…
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Parking Meter Rates Going Up
The rates will soon go up for people parking in the city. Electric pay boxes will begin charging $5 an hour in the downtown area, up from $4.25.And it will cost $3 an hour to park on streets outside the downtown area. The rate increase will go into effect Jan. 1. As part of the…
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Fioretti Anti-Building Protection
Powered by a solar-powered device akin to a car battery, the fences send 7,000 volt jolts every 1.3 seconds into the hands of people who touch the fences, which have never proved fatal in the states and cities that allow them…. The systems are allowed in California, other major cities and Illinois suburbs including Bolingbrook,…
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Post Objection Blogging
I’m back!! Had a little hiatus from posting there. Turns out that Alderman Fioretti’s guy objected to my petitions so I had to get some legal work done in order to stay on the ballot. But I think I have all that behind me now; we should be rolling full steam ahead. Also, just as…
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June 11, 2008
Alderman Fioretti send two very dangerous messages with one vote: campaign and other donations to the city get results for the donors, and what the citizens want doesn’t matter, the city should always get its way. Bob Fioretti believes that if your names sounds like Crown or Pritzker and you donate lots of money to…