The Chicago Sun-Times editorialized ecstatically about the passage of the McHenry County Conservation District’s referendum.
Read the first paragraph:
The vote totals are finally in across the metropolis, and it is a win for nature, conservation, wildlife habitat — and people. [Emphasis added.]
No mention of how people who will see a permanent 33% property tax hike will win.
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