Here's another property threatened by eminent domain in the Des Plaines Five Corners/River-Rand TIF District. The last two businesses I blogged about, the Geiser-Berner plumbing shop and the corner BP Gas Station are both inside what I'm calling the Inner Triangle, the region bounded on the east by River Road, on the southwest by Rand Road, and on the north by the Union … [Read more...] about Des Plaines TIF: Suburban Transmission
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The Chinese Government Doesn’t Want You To Read This
The Chinese government is well known for censoring its citizens' access to the World Wide Web. Now you can run a test to see if your website is blocked in China, thanks to the fine folks at greatfirewallofchina.org. Naturally, I had to check if they're blocking windypundit.com. The site is a little slow, so it took a while to find out... They're blocking me. Wow. There … [Read more...] about The Chinese Government Doesn’t Want You To Read This