Tonight Connie Sue Schmidt of the Sierra Club’s River Prairie Group announced their endorsement of Democrat Rob Bisceglie for 45th District State Representative at his Danada House fundraiser in Wheaton. Connie pointed particularly to Rob’s long-standing commitment to maintain open spaces and to bring state funding for the environment to DuPage, and she pledged […]
Rob Bisceglie’s Fundraiser with Pat Quinn is at Danada House, Wheaton (3 S 501 Naperville Road) on Thursday, July 27, 7:30 PM. The event features:
:: Desserts,
:: Wine,
:: Live jazz and
:: Lt Gov Pat Quinn
$50 gets you in the door - $100 allows you to bring a friend - $1,000 allows you to bring neighbors […]
Orange withdrawal. Oh, well, nothing rhymes with it. Read them both!
I remember sometime around 1994 (before the GOP congressional successes) a conservative Republican political science professor at Northern Illinois University (NIU) was speaking casually with a grad student who was hopeful for Republican prospects. The professor suggested that, while they both might abhor the Clinton Administration, when it came to Republicans actually achieving power […]
This year Money magazine ranked Naperville the second best place to live among small cities. Naperville moved up from third place in last year’s rankings. What has changed in the last year?
Positives
Money magazine points out that both ConAgra and OfficeMax now have major locations in Naperville - both moving here in 2006. ConAgra […]
First Jack Abramoff tried to “mortgage” Native Americans - then, with no takers, he discussed “mortgaging old black people” with Ralph Reed - a shameless act of insuring African-American elderly church goers and collecting life insurance payoffs from their deaths, funneling the money through a non-profit and then using it to enrich themselves. Ralph’s […]
Austin Mayor is sick today (and apparently has been for at least a few days). I’m actually home sick today too - though feeling better. In solidarity with da Mayor, and hoping he feels much better soon, here is today’s blog entry. You may never look at popcorn, a flea market or […]
OneMan suggests that blogs may be the new “Iowa” for presidential contenders. It’s an interesting thought - although certainly not any more representative of the U.S. population.
Today’s Daily Herald covers DuPage County Board Democratic Candidate Rich Dunn telling voters why he is ‘right on the issues’ and prepared to defeat the recently defeated (in the primary) and then appointed (to fill a vacancy) Republican Grant Eckhoff for County Board District 4.
From the Daily Herald:
“‘When the Republicans voted for a tax increase […]
One is a married lawyer with five children who says he has “a good job and a good life” and is running “not to get a job - but to do a job.” One is a married Iraqi War veteran with extensive public health experience who seeks “to provide access to affordable health care […]
