A man won - or so he thought - an election with 52 percent of the vote. But city bureaucrats won't let him take his seat because of the strange way they define a majority.
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The Majority That Wasn't: When 50% of the Vote Just Isn't Good Enough
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Illinois Traffic Stop Raises Concerns About Drug Searches, Police Dogs
http://www.huffingtonpost.com –
Last December, filmmaker Terrance Huff and his friend Jon Seaton were returning to Ohio from St. Louis. As they drove through a small town in Illinois, a police officer pulled Huff's over for an alleged unsafe lane change. Over the next hour, the police officer interrogated the two men, employing a variety of police tactics aimed at tricking them into giving up their Fourth Amendment rights. Fortunately, this was all recorded.
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Teen arrested after allegedly ranking girls on Facebook
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Allegedly he posted a comprehensive list, ranking 50 of his female classmates. It apparently included some rather predictable criteria. There was allegedly a subjective bio of each girl, coupled with separate ratings for their faces and bodies and references to race, ethnicity, and alleged sexual behavior. There was also an indicator of whether their "stock" might be in the ascendancy or not.
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Hell no, we won't go... out of our way to collect sales taxes
http://arstechnica.com –
Amazon is no fan of collecting state sales taxes, and it's ready to play hardball once again in its attempt to avoid the levy. An e-mail sent from the company to all of its Illinois affiliates this morning warns that, should Illinois Governor Pat Quinn sign a just-passed tax bill, Amazon is cutting off every affiliate in Illinois.
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Yo Dawg, I heard you like Taxes, Livonia mulling 1% fee on taxes
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Livonia might charge its residents a 1% administrative fee to collect their property taxes, beginning with the December tax bill.
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Illinois: Where Recording On-Duty Cops Is Treated Like Sexual Assault
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Illinois charges you with a Class I felony for recording cops; it's punishable by 4 to 15 years in prison.
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Kankakee Taser incident
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school district investigating unsanctioned Taser demonstration by officer in which child was hospitalized
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