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Quick Hits – Apparently Chicago is, well, kind of, maybe, somewhat ready for some reform – or not!

Quick Hits – Apparently Chicago is, well, kind of, maybe, somewhat ready for some reform – or not!

February 27, 2019

So, here’s what we’ve learned from what basically turned out to be yesterday’s Second City mayoral primary: 1. Chicago will have its first black female

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It will be Preckwinkle and Daley!

February 26, 2019

Thank you to my friend Paul for reminding me that the Windy City is directly in the throes of a major mayoral election. And though

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Quick Hits – Getting it wrong matters!

Quick Hits – Getting it wrong matters!

February 25, 2019

Much like it was with the Gliniewicz suicide, anyone with half a brain immediately understood that Empire actor Jussie Smollett was making it all up.

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As The First Ward predicted

February 22, 2019

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Quick Hits – More Elgin public art? What could possibly go wrong with that?

February 22, 2019

Some folks, or should I say some municipalities, just never learn. Silly me! I thought, in the aftermath of the 2016 ‘American Nocturne’ debacle, Elgin

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Quick Hits – ROR? Yikes!

Quick Hits – ROR? Yikes!

February 20, 2019

My adoring throng knows that whenever I start a story with a slew of stipulations, it’s going to get very interesting very quickly. With that

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Quick Hits – February 18, 2019

Quick Hits – February 18, 2019

February 18, 2019

Why give him “credit?” After a previous mass shooting, a local paper declared they’d no longer grant a shooter’s final wish by covering them such

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Quick Hits – The return of the rabble!

Quick Hits – The return of the rabble!

February 15, 2019

And this time, that Wednesday evening Elgin City Council throng spilled well out into the hallway perhaps marking the largest congregation to which that governing

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Quick Hits – February 13, 2019

Quick Hits – February 13, 2019

February 13, 2019

The GEA is still quite tone deaf! I certainly understood the late, great philosopher Tom Petty when he mused, “Listen, it don’t really matter to

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Quick Hits – “Toughness tempered with mercy?” Yeah right!

Quick Hits – “Toughness tempered with mercy?” Yeah right!

February 11, 2019

That was Kane County State’s Attorney Joe McMahon’s previous campaign slogan. When I broached this topic with my favorite former managing editor, he replied, “The

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