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Quick Hits Postponed!

Quick Hits Postponed!

May 31, 2019

Due to spending the majority of my morning in immediate care as a result of a toe fracture that goes right through the base joint,

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Quick Hits – What God isn’t!

Quick Hits – What God isn’t!

May 29, 2019

I’ve been considering this column for quite some time, but it took a Sunday Chicago Tribune piece to finally get those particular mental gears going.

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Quick Hits – On Inconceivable Things!

Quick Hits – On Inconceivable Things!

May 27, 2019

Since I’m not likely to get many readers on Memorial Day and this is a column I’ve been considering for quite some time, let’s temporarily

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Quick Hits – Kwame Raoul protects sexual predators!

Quick Hits – Kwame Raoul protects sexual predators!

May 24, 2019

Considering the time lapse involved, a number of readers recently reached out to ask how my FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) denial battle with the

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Quick Hits – No one can serve two masters

Quick Hits – No one can serve two masters

May 22, 2019

Though I’m generally not one to start spouting biblical entreaties, the greater quote from which I derived that title is: No one can serve two

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Quick Hits – If you’re gonna do patronage, you may as well be blatant!

Quick Hits – If you’re gonna do patronage, you may as well be blatant!

May 20, 2019

We briefly touched on this topic last Wednesday, postponing the full story pending a response from Kane County Sheriff Ron Hain. But when you’ve just

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Quick Hits – It costs what?

Quick Hits – It costs what?

May 17, 2019

Those of you who follow me on Facebook already know my wife had cardiac ablation surgery yesterday. It’s an outpatient procedure whereby rubber “catheters” are

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Really Sheriff Hain?

Really Sheriff Hain?

May 17, 2019

What do you do when you get caught hiring an unqualified Elgin City Councilman to a $72,000 a year part-time job? No! You don’t go

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Quick Hits – A Will County update

Quick Hits – A Will County update

May 16, 2019

Journalism, especially these days, is a always a long-term consideration. If you expect your columns to have an immediate effect, not only will you be

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Quick Hits – Let’s go back to debtor’s prison and coerced confessions!

Quick Hits – Let’s go back to debtor’s prison and coerced confessions!

May 15, 2019

Silly me! I though Republicans had cornered the market on truly terrible political ideas! Just 120,000 troops to the Middle East? What could possibly go

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