Category: Money

Governor JB Pritzker seeks increase in higher education funds

By Peter Hancock One day after delivering his budget proposal to the General Assembly in Springfield, Democratic governor JB Pritzker was in Chicago Thursday, Feb. 20 to round up support for his proposed increases in higher education funding. Speaking at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Pritzker highlighted his proposal

Huge profits reaped from fear-filled news on coronavirus

Last of two parts The first part is available at thevoice.us/coronavirus-fear-compounds-anxiety-arbitrarily. Coronavirus: How dangerous is it? Hint: Don’t trust the big media. Want to Know Info by Fred Burks for PEERS (Public Education and Empowerment Resource Service) and former White House interpreter and whistleblower has submitted the following article: “Fear-filled

Community Foundation awards support grants of $162,000

The Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley (CFFRV) recently awarded grants totaling $162,000 to support 17 social service agencies, all doing critically-important work in the Fox River Valley: • Administer Justice. For new desks, workstations, and computers so their staff is better equipped to serve the legal and spiritual

Concerns of debt, direction in Aurora

February 9, 2020Dear editor; I was thinking about all the times I have approached Aurora City Council. They are bent on developing a “Something’s Happening Downtown” and making Aurora famous. It is their methodology that bothers me. Going deep in debt, embellishing crowd sizes and successes, producing bogus statistics and

Concerns of candidates and socialism

February 9, 2020Dear editor; Don’t you just love the double standard by the Democrats? If it had been Donald Trump’s son kicked out of military service for cocaine, there would have been headlines three inches high reporting that Trump got his kid got a job paying $87,000 per month for

DuPage Juvenile Officers Association offers scholarships

The DuPage Juvenile Officers Association, the largest association of juvenile officers and youth workers in Illinois, announced Tuesday, Feb. 11 that it is will award up to two $1,000 college scholarships this year. Applicants must be residents of DuPage County planning to seek a career in law enforcement or youth

Naperville Park District provides free tax-filing for seniors

Naperville Park District is providing free tax filing assistance to seniors through April 8. Volunteers trained through the AARP Tax-Aide program are available to meet with individuals in 45-minute appointments from 9 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays at the Alfred Rubin Riverwalk Community Center, 305 W. Jackson

Mooseheart receives timely donation for equipment, new MAC

When Mooseheart received a $10,000 grant through the Dick’s Sporting Goods “Sports Matter Foundation,” the campus received funding for much-needed sporting equipment. Just as important, however, is that Mooseheart began a relationship with Dick’s employees, which both organizations feel will prove mutually beneficial in years to come. “Dick’s Sporting Goods

Oswego Fire District receives a grant

The Oswego Fire Protection District will purchase clothes for their mascot “Pumper the Fire Pup” whose purpose is to educate the public in relation to community fire protection and prevention, thanks to a grant from Illinois American Water. The Illinois American Water Firefighter Grant Program provides financial assistance to fire