Mayor Tiffany Henyard

[Greenman]

Anyone else watching this dumpster fire? I don't recall how I stumbled across the story, but it's as wild as a Mexican soap opera. One person even claims that Mayor Henyard tried to have her killed. A couple of local businesses are claiming they've been shut down because they won't donate money to her campaign fund or her non profit, which has been shut down by the state. Now the state Attorney General and the FBI are involved.

 

[K1052]

The mayor of my hometown ate a gun in his office after it was coming out he was involved in separate corruption and tax fraud scandals.

Small town/city stuff is often crazier than big city stuff.

 

[Brainonska511]

The mayor of my hometown ate a gun in his office after it was coming out he was involved in separate corruption and tax fraud scandals.

Small town/city stuff is often crazier than big city stuff.

The one I saw recently in the Boston Globe has it look like a local municipal police department buried/ignored an issue where children were sharing a nude photo of a male classmate. One of the people accused of sharing the photo was the son of a police officer.

Would love to see some municipal consolidation to open up the voter base, cut costs for duplicative services, and hopefully crush some of the corruption because it would become easier to justify media coverage over a larger government.

 

[K1052]

The one I saw recently in the Boston Globe has it look like a local municipal police department buried/ignored an issue where children were sharing a nude photo of a male classmate. One of the people accused of sharing the photo was the son of a police officer.

Would love to see some municipal consolidation to open up the voter base, cut costs for duplicative services, and hopefully crush some of the corruption because it would become easier to justify media coverage over a larger government.

Fewer people looking over shoulders is a recipe for bad things in my experience.

In this particular case Dolton definitely should get annexed to Chicago. Western Cook County should also consolidate because this is insanely wasteful:

 

[Brainonska511]

Fewer people looking over shoulders is a recipe for bad things in my experience.

In this particular case Dolton definitely should get annexed to Chicago. Western Cook County should also consolidate because this is insanely wasteful:

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Boston has the same problem. Tiny municipal fiefdoms that are a few square miles that are just inbred with corruption and tons of duplicative services.

 

[hal2kilo]

Fewer people looking over shoulders is a recipe for bad things in my experience.

In this particular case Dolton definitely should get annexed to Chicago. Western Cook County should also consolidate because this is insanely wasteful:

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Berwyn! Memories of Chi town TV.

 

[IronWing]

Cicero should conquer that little piece of Stickney. Clearly, it is God's mandate.

Summit needs to cease it's diddling of Bedford Park.

 

[pete6032]

If you like that, you might also find the situation in Harvey IL interesting.

6 Men Charged in Trio of Harvey Corruption Cases

The defendants include two Harvey police officers, a private consultant to the city and two cousins with “high-ranking relatives” inside the city’s government.

news.wttw.com

 

[Perknose]

I always wondered why property taxes were so uniformly high in NJ, given it's a basically wealthy state. I asked my politically savvy NJ friend to explain, and she said that they have hundreds of tiny, balkanized school districts, and that every one has a top heavy administrative staff, including a head cheese making a hefty triple figure salary.

Ok, finally went to Google to see:

"New Jersey has about 600 public school districts — more than the total number of municipalities in the state.
By comparison, Florida has 74 school districts, Maryland has 24 and Nevada has 18.
That’s because those states have mostly county-wide school systems, while New Jersey has a long tradition of allowing each of its hundreds of towns, boroughs, cities, townships and villages decide how to run its own schools.
[...]
“New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the country and more than half of that goes to fund schools."

 

[Pens1566]

The mayor of my hometown ate a gun in his office after it was coming out he was involved in separate corruption and tax fraud scandals.

Small town/city stuff is often crazier than big city stuff.

R Budd Dwyer?

 

[Perknose]

R Budd Dwyer?

I remember seeing that on the tube. Probably not live, but definitely same day. He was the Pa state treasurer, got caught in a kickback scheme.

 

[Moonbeam]

Clearly we need to ban education. Statistics clearly show the more school districts there are the harder it is to not become homeless. You can't teach homeless children much anyway. And how many poor kids would an education administrator's salary feed? And think what misery would exist for Republican's if they were actually educated. "Oh my God, I've been fucking myself."

 

[carrotmania]

I'm struggling to see why Greenman shows an interest in this case, and not any of the dumpster fires caused by right wing... white... men...

Oh look, I figured it out...

 

[Zor Prime]

I always wondered why property taxes were so uniformly high in NJ, given it's a basically wealthy state. I asked my politically savvy NJ friend to explain, and she said that they have hundreds of tiny, balkanized school districts, and that every one has a top heavy administrative staff, including a head cheese making a hefty triple figure salary.

Ok, finally went to Google to see:

"New Jersey has about 600 public school districts — more than the total number of municipalities in the state.
By comparison, Florida has 74 school districts, Maryland has 24 and Nevada has 18.
That’s because those states have mostly county-wide school systems, while New Jersey has a long tradition of allowing each of its hundreds of towns, boroughs, cities, townships and villages decide how to run its own schools.
[...]
“New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the country and more than half of that goes to fund schools."

The money inflow to the districts sounds similar to the area where my place in CA is.

Last year or the year before I went to an awards ceremony being held at one of the high schools.

I walked in and was stunned. Walked throughout, continuing to be stunned. Left, stunned.

The school was like a presidential palace or some shit. I have been to almost every Ivy League school in New England and this high school beat the ever-living fuck out of them in terms of grandeur.

It's just insane. Holy shit. These kids can learn just fine in a block building with a tin roof. Not saying do that, but they could. lol. And people wonder why property tax here is so high -- well, there you go.

 

[MrSquished]

I always wondered why property taxes were so uniformly high in NJ, given it's a basically wealthy state. I asked my politically savvy NJ friend to explain, and she said that they have hundreds of tiny, balkanized school districts, and that every one has a top heavy administrative staff, including a head cheese making a hefty triple figure salary.

Ok, finally went to Google to see:

"New Jersey has about 600 public school districts — more than the total number of municipalities in the state.
By comparison, Florida has 74 school districts, Maryland has 24 and Nevada has 18.
That’s because those states have mostly county-wide school systems, while New Jersey has a long tradition of allowing each of its hundreds of towns, boroughs, cities, townships and villages decide how to run its own schools.
[...]
“New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the country and more than half of that goes to fund schools."

we have way too many townships, etc... So many should be merged into one larger town. It's nuts. It's been a long-term issue for ages, but nobody wants to give up their little kingdoms of course.

 

[hal2kilo]

we have way too many townships, etc... So many should be merged into one larger town. It's nuts. It's been a long-term issue for ages, but nobody wants to give up their little kingdoms of course.

When I lived in the OC, I was amazed at all the micro townlets. Some of these places couldn't be more than a couple square miles big. Of course, I grew up in a county with 0 incorporated cities that is only 23 sq miles big.

 

[iRONic]

The money inflow to the districts sounds similar to the area where my place in CA is.

Last year or the year before I went to an awards ceremony being held at one of the high schools.

I walked in and was stunned. Walked throughout, continuing to be stunned. Left, stunned.

The school was like a presidential palace or some shit. I have been to almost every Ivy League school in New England and this high school beat the ever-living fuck out of them in terms of grandeur.

It's just insane. Holy shit. These kids can learn just fine in a block building with a tin roof. Not saying do that, but they could. lol. And people wonder why property tax here is so high -- well, there you go.

Shitlol

Some of the private high school football fields are professional quality here! Even some of the public school ones are top-notch. It's nuts…

 

[brycejones]

Shitlol

Some of the private high school football fields are professional quality here! Even some of the public school ones are top-notch. It's nuts…

Our local school district just spent $600K on a new field.

 

[sdifox]

I always wondered why property taxes were so uniformly high in NJ, given it's a basically wealthy state. I asked my politically savvy NJ friend to explain, and she said that they have hundreds of tiny, balkanized school districts, and that every one has a top heavy administrative staff, including a head cheese making a hefty triple figure salary.

Ok, finally went to Google to see:

"New Jersey has about 600 public school districts — more than the total number of municipalities in the state.
By comparison, Florida has 74 school districts, Maryland has 24 and Nevada has 18.
That’s because those states have mostly county-wide school systems, while New Jersey has a long tradition of allowing each of its hundreds of towns, boroughs, cities, townships and villages decide how to run its own schools.
[...]
“New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the country and more than half of that goes to fund schools."

what a train wreck. like there are that many people that know how to run a school district.

 

[GettyRoad]

I always wondered why property taxes were so uniformly high in NJ, given it's a basically wealthy state. I asked my politically savvy NJ friend to explain, and she said that they have hundreds of tiny, balkanized school districts, and that every one has a top heavy administrative staff, including a head cheese making a hefty triple figure salary.

Ok, finally went to Google to see:

"New Jersey has about 600 public school districts — more than the total number of municipalities in the state.
By comparison, Florida has 74 school districts, Maryland has 24 and Nevada has 18.
That’s because those states have mostly county-wide school systems, while New Jersey has a long tradition of allowing each of its hundreds of towns, boroughs, cities, townships and villages decide how to run its own schools.
[...]
“New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the country and more than half of that goes to fund schools."

I live in NJ. They're trying to consolidate but people like home rule, and complaining about taxes after.

 

[fskimospy]

I always wondered why property taxes were so uniformly high in NJ, given it's a basically wealthy state. I asked my politically savvy NJ friend to explain, and she said that they have hundreds of tiny, balkanized school districts, and that every one has a top heavy administrative staff, including a head cheese making a hefty triple figure salary.

Ok, finally went to Google to see:

"New Jersey has about 600 public school districts — more than the total number of municipalities in the state.
By comparison, Florida has 74 school districts, Maryland has 24 and Nevada has 18.
That’s because those states have mostly county-wide school systems, while New Jersey has a long tradition of allowing each of its hundreds of towns, boroughs, cities, townships and villages decide how to run its own schools.
[...]
“New Jersey has the highest property taxes in the country and more than half of that goes to fund schools."

More than half of property taxes going to schools is not particularly notable as property taxes are how we fund schools (Which is a terrible idea) and schools are usually by far the biggest local government expenditure.