With cycling season rapidly approaching (I think!), Batavia Mayor Jeff Schielke wants the BPD to start ticketing cyclists who run straight through stop signs to
Author: Jeff Ward
Quick Hits – March 1, 2019
This ain’t the way to “end corruption!” Considering my eminently fascinating life, one of my favorite declarations tends to be “They have yet to fashion
Quick Hits – Apparently Chicago is, well, kind of, maybe, somewhat ready for some reform – or not!
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
It will be Preckwinkle and Daley!
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
Quick Hits – Getting it wrong matters!
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.
As The First Ward predicted
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Quick Hits – More Elgin public art? What could possibly go wrong with that?
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
Quick Hits – ROR? Yikes!
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
Quick Hits – 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
Quick Hits – The return of the rabble!
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