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.
Month: August 2012
Paul Ryan? It's already over!
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
I loved the walk with the Mayor
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
We're Geneva! We don't have to care!
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
Those Mill Creekers are at it again!
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,
Your child is not special and they're not getting a full ride either
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
Things never seem to change in good old Geneva
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
One of these things IS like the other!
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
Alternate Patch Chick-fil-A column ending
Since this kind of same-sex marriage column summation makes my editors nervous, we’ll just do it here: “Come to think of it, Jesus was unmarried
A blow against the municipal mindset
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