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Quick Hits – Mike Noland just knocked on my door!

Quick Hits – Mike Noland just knocked on my door!

June 30, 2018

I’m gonna say it for the 437th time! The truth really is stranger than fiction! So, I’m sitting at the dinner table this evening when

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Quick Hits – “Jarrod wants to be your friend”

Quick Hits – “Jarrod wants to be your friend”

June 29, 2018

Before we start, I want to be crystal clear that no one deserves to die in a workplace shooting. Short of self-defense, no act is

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Quick Hits – June 28, 2018

Quick Hits – June 28, 2018

June 28, 2018

If it’s good enough for Donald Trump! Thanks to the Geneva Police, now that I’m completely free to speak my mind, I’m going to be

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Quick Hits – Why the Blue Wave is Dead – Part One

Quick Hits – Why the Blue Wave is Dead – Part One

June 27, 2018

Because the Democrats killed it – all the way down to the local level. I realize I argued the categorical converse of this contention a

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Quick Hits – Alderman McGowan really does need to stay in her ward!

Quick Hits – Alderman McGowan really does need to stay in her ward!

June 26, 2018

Oh lord! You try to give someone some reasonable advice and they dive so deeply into the Einsteinian definition of insanity that they do just

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Quit Hits – This is your Geneva Police!

Quit Hits – This is your Geneva Police!

June 25, 2018

This is one of the stories the Geneva Police Department tried to intimidate me into dropping.  I’m sure you’ll shortly understand why. For this one,

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Quick Hits – Why I Generally Support Chairman Lauzen

Quick Hits – Why I Generally Support Chairman Lauzen

June 22, 2018

We haven’t engaged in a good point-counterpoint discussion here in quite a while, so let’s give it a shot! Terry Flanagan, the husband of former

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Quick Hits Supplemental – Due Diligence has Been Applied!

June 21, 2018

This morning, one of my favorite former managing editors chided me for my “failure” to reach out to Kane County Chief Judge Susan Clancy Boles

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Quick hits – June 20, 2018

Quick hits – June 20, 2018

June 20, 2018

“Justice” Kane County style Most of you already know I never want to be the story. It’s not that I’m any kind of shrinking violet,

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Quick Hits – June 18, 2018

Quick Hits – June 18, 2018

June 18, 2018

Be still my beating heart! So, Kane County Chairman Chris Lauzen broke a tie vote to reimburse himself for a $34 book? Why, the scurrilous

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