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Quick Hits – The First Ward’s Midterm Predictions!

Quick Hits – The First Ward’s Midterm Predictions!

October 31, 2018

Normally, election prognostication columns are one of my favorite things, but with this election cycle truly testing my prophetic mettle, I’m not looking forward to

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Quick Hits – Just Don’t Do It – Part 2

Quick Hits – Just Don’t Do It – Part 2

October 29, 2018

Survival as a journalist depends upon a capacity to harden your heart or follow in those Zen masters’ non-attachment footsteps. I’d like to think I

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Quick Hits – October 26, 2018

Quick Hits – October 26, 2018

October 26, 2018

This is why Republicans can’t win in Illinois With the friendliest poll numbers putting him 13 points behind J. B. Pritzker, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner

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Quick Hits – October 24, 2018

Quick Hits – October 24, 2018

October 24, 2018

Yes! Judge Dalton really said that! As is always the case, whenever we cover John Dalton, a miserable excuse for a judge and a human

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Quick Hits – No mention of Delnor?

October 22, 2018

As we briefly discussed last Friday, the Daily Herald inexplicably endorsed incumbent Kane County Sheriff Don Kramer over the eminently more qualified Sgt. Ron Hain

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Quick Hits Supplemental – A sudden newspaper sadness

Quick Hits Supplemental – A sudden newspaper sadness

October 21, 2018

Having heard that 4 a.m. slap on the driveway, at 6:45 a.m., I dutifully went out to secure today’s Chicago Tribune. As I grabbed the

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Quick Hits – October 19, 2018

Quick Hits – October 19, 2018

October 19, 2018

Not Recommended! Just in case you didn’t believe me or the 50 commenters on that first column exposing Judge John Dalton’s regular cruelty, the Illinois

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Quick Hits – Please vote Hartwell for judge!

Quick Hits – Please vote Hartwell for judge!

October 17, 2018

When we last left off, we were discussing how we have the power to vote Judge John Dalton out of office and, given his generally

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Quick Hits – Let’s Send Judge Dalton packing!

October 15, 2018

Of the approximately 2,000 columns I’ve written since I started toiling for the then suburban Sun-Times newspapers back in 2006, none has generated the kind

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Quick Hits – 2018 First Ward Endorsements!

Quick Hits – 2018 First Ward Endorsements!

October 12, 2018

Since this is gonna be a long one and I’ve got things to do, let’s get right to our endorsements in those contested races: County

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