About 17 months ago the Daily Herald reported massive overcharging by private company Illinois American Water to Lisle’s Oak View residents, as well as problems with the water supply: “Lisle-Woodridge Fire District Chief Thomas Freeman is growing tired of trying to make the utility raise the water pressure in hydrants near two Lisle schools […]
Bob Peickert sent me a press release from his run last year for DuPage County Board in response to my post today on the Daily Herald story about the all-Republican DuPage County Board members considering Democratic ideas for cost-cutting to deal with the fiscal crisis they’ve created. Here’s an excerpt from the press release:
“Press […]
I read a lot - but sometimes things really stand out as offering something fundamental. Here are three recent ones that caught my eye:
Washington Post Dick Cheney Series -a must read because it’s even scarier than you probably think.
New York Times‘ Rupert Murdoch Series - Part 1 and Part 2
New York Times on America’s […]
[This entry has been updated to include all of the Democratic County Board candidates and to make reference to a Bob Peickert campaign press release from 2006.]
It is the province of the powerful, and sometimes inept or lazy, to complain that challengers to their power have “no ideas” and fail to offer solutions. […]
I called Bill Foster’s campaign yesterday and found myself having a good conversation with Foster’s new Campaign Manager Tom Bowen, who is a reader of this blog (with a name like mine you appreciate name recognition - if for no other reason than it saves explanation time). Tom has impressed at least one person […]
The Capitol Fax has a great rundown here, where Representative Paul Froehlich says he left the Republican Party because of disagreements on the Iraq War, Bush’s abuse of Habeus Corpus, Republican immigration rhetoric and Republican anti-environmentalism. Today’s Chicago Tribune quotes Froehlich as saying,
“‘Today is my 30th wedding anniversary,’ Froehlich said. ‘It feels like I’m […]
State Senator and former DuPage County Republican Chair Kirk Dillard has just made a TV ad for Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama. For a while I’ve been sitting on a hunch (and only a hunch) that Dillard might be seeking a federal post with President Barack Obama, should Obama win. I based my hunch on […]
The Eric Krol of the Daily Herald seems to have broken the story. Welcome State Representative Paul Froehlich!
The recent news that Thomas and Friends train cars were painted for at least two years with lead - and that upon finding this out the company that contracts to produce them has been slow to acknowledge the problem and deal with it - is pretty sobering for parents of young children. It follows […]
I think what Kevin says has a lot to recommend it - but he needs to take it at least one step further. What the Bush Administration has shown (among other things) is that relentlessly pushing for policies sometimes yields results even if you don’t start out having the power to change things. […]
