I am a township road commissioner in Illinois and have to deal with this daily. Some points to ponder: 1-My state is BROKE! They have been cutting our motor fuel tax money to the county which gives it to the townships. 2-The board of trustees will not raise taxes, lots of retirees around. 3-We have to deal with all the prevailing wage BS and the contractors we deal with have to pay this and into some kind of apprentice program that the union specifies or they'le protest every bid. Guess who gets to pay for all that? 4-Trucking rates are up costs more to even get gravel.We used to oil 5 miles of road a year now we can barely do 1. This year 0, all the money goes for rock. Don't even ask where the price of oil has gone! We are one of the smallest counties in Il, but are tax rates are as high as the next county over, highly populated. Sorry for the long rant, it's frustrating to see what you have to do but can't get it done because all the BS!
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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