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
Year: 2012
A belated sendoff to Gore Vidal
My brother from another mother told it like it is: “Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President.
As if some women drivers weren't bad enough already!
Now they’ve come up with a new trick and it happened again today! There I was, turning left into the Geneva Walgreens parking lot from
On raises, lawsuits and frightfully insecure county chairmen
Since fools always rush in where angels fear to tread, I decided to take a shot at negotiating a settlement to the MacRunnels v. McConnaughy
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Don’t get me wrong, I sincerely appreciate all the readers and reasonable politicians who encourage me to keep on keeping folks honest, but the truth
There are two Republican parties in Kane County
Every summer, the Kane County Western Township Republicans put on their annual soiree on the spacious grounds of county board member Drew Frasz’ Brundige Road
Nominating petitions 101
Editor Paul Harth comes up with yet another great title for my Monday Courier-News column! The bottom line is, you need to come up with
The one liner I couldn't use on Patch!
In my Monday Patch column on running Brian Urlacher and Jenny McCarthy out of Geneva – a worthy endeavor if there ever was one –
The real story behing that not-quite-so abandoned Aurora house
In addition to today’s Beacon-News column on the subject, I had an interesting conversation with Aurora Alderman Rick Lawrence regarding that ostensibly abandoned Downers Place
If Sheriff Perez fires folks for their politics, then why is Kevin Williams still there?
Four long years after the fact, former Kane County Deputy Stephen Yahnke is suing Sheriff Pat Perez for more than $1 million in damages and,