Month: August 2012

In Sunday’s Beacon-News column I lament the fact that so much of popular literature is setting women – and especially young women – back decades.

First,  it was great to see the 800-ish folks at Chris Lauzen’s Porky Picnic last Saturday. Whether you like the Senator or not, only he

Even this jaded journalist learned something from participating in Elgin’s Walk With the Mayor program.  And I cover those lessons in today’s Courier-News column. In

In today’s Patch piece, we cover the fact that the City of Geneva has still offered no explanation for two 3 plus hour power outages

Oh no! Those open minded and ever-so-tolerant Mill Creek dwellers aren’t bigots. I’m sure some of their best friends are Hispanic. Exactly as I predicted,

Though they need to call out the bad guys a bit more, the Chronicle has been running some interesting pieces as of late. And this

So Mayor Kevin Burns is suddenly concerned with potential aldermanic conflicts of interest? Why is my cynical sense tingling?  Of course, the reason he doesn’t

Can you tell the difference between these two photographs? If you said they’re both plants then you’re about as politically astute as it gets. Read

Aurora Alderman Rick Lawrence can be aggravating and he doesn’t know how to pick his battles, but he just struck two blows against the municipal