Chicago Daily Observer

He’s at it again.

In this week’s Works, I wrote about a recent press conference where Mayor Daley denounced the county assessor’s office and called for widespread “corrections” to property tax assessments.

Now, in today’s Tribune, there’s an op-ed by the mayor

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-oped0213daleyfeb13,0,4892131.story

that tells a few more whoppers about his role in our property tax system.

Chi Trib is at it again, 2nd day in a row, surrendering top-billed op-ed space (hard-copy: it’s buried on the web site) to a politician blowing his own horn:

Property tax bills went out across Chicago last week, and homeowners are rightly concerned. They’re seeing the evidence that our property tax assessment system is broken and needs to be reformed.

The increases in property tax bills are due largely to higher assessments determined by the Cook County assessor, not a tax increase by the City of Chicago.

That’s the mayor speaking or writing, but who thinks he wrote it? And why, if he can be so calm and lucid, doesn’t he talk that way?

Again, we have perhaps a standing practice, in its best light encouraging op-ed dueling. But if that’s it, then give equal space, equally billed, to that highly suspect Cook County assessor. He is mentioned, yes:

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The city on Wednesday took what it called a “milestone” step toward cashing out on its investment in Midway Airport, announcing that most of Midway’s airlines back a privatization plan and issuing what’s known as a request for qualifications.

The RFQ asks that firms and investment groups interested in leasing Midway for at least 50 years respond by March 31.

Great work again by RezkoWatch’s B Merry:

Did former Weather Undeground Terrorist William Ayers, pictured in the 1960s, donate to the Obama campaign?

From Peter Hitchens in the Daily Mail:

It suggests very bad judgment, as do strong, persistent suggestions that Obama also accepted quite small contributions from extreme Left-wing veterans of the terrorist Weather Underground now living in Chicago.