No publicized screams of “FIND OUT WHO LEAKED THE MEMO” or “SLAM THE REPORTER” came with the leak of National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley’s November 8th memorandum on Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and American efforts to establish control in Iraq. The memo was leaked by “an administration official” who was nice enough […]
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Posted 30 November 2006
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Today’s Daily Herald reports that District 203 Superintendent Alan Leis says that as much as $100 million in recommended facility improvements will likely not be finalized enough for a spring 2007 referendum. If it isn’t done this spring it will have to wait until spring 2008. Current projects being discussed include:
- Renovating Naperville […]
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Posted 28 November 2006
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They just can’t seem to call things what they are - without President George Bush’s approval. Shameful.
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Posted 28 November 2006
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Last year the non-partisan Civic Federation was critical about the lack of transparency in DuPage’s budget and warned the county not to continue relying on increased property taxes (pdf) - but accepted the county budget. This year, with DuPage again relying on property tax increases in a budget lacking transparency, the organization “cautions against […]
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Posted 21 November 2006
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Makes you think about the problem with so many of the pro-war arguments - they often seem to assume that at worst things will stay the same - and that they have a decent chance of getting better. As Americans we often think in a ‘technological’ frame of mind - that if we have […]
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Posted 20 November 2006
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A very nice compliment to the city from someone who has been critical at times.
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Posted 17 November 2006
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We used to think about food this way:
Then we became concerned about the security of our food:
Now, in a preemptive strike against bad news, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the agency responsible for measuring the number of people who formerly were called “hungry” has decided that “hungry” people are not “hungry” - rather, […]
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Posted 16 November 2006
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Recently there has been discussion in local newspapers and blogs about DuPage non-profit organizations advocating a cigarette tax among other solutions to the county budget cuts and deficit. I understand why the non-profits are doing it - and I don’t blame them. Faced with elimination, like the University of Illinois Extension in DuPage […]
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Posted 15 November 2006
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Rolling Stone puts a lot of it together here. Recent John Kerry reject for 2004 VP, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack has become the first Democrat to formally begin a run for president. As a favorite son of Iowa, he effectively makes Iowa’s first in the nation caucus politically pointless. This has a […]
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Posted 15 November 2006
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Remember the criticism of the Federal Emergency Management Agency buying mobile homes and not using over 20,000 of them (about $750 million worth)? That’s costing U.S. taxpayers about $250,000 a month in storage - not to mention the $6 million or so spent on gravel to keep the trailers from sinking in the mud.
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Posted 14 November 2006
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