Category: The First Ward Report

I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement. – Professor and Novelist Lee Siegel Me too! And I’d love to be able

It’s all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I’m collecting them. I’m always looking for a hero, you know?

I swear COVID must’ve affected the mediocre mob’s hearing because they’re clearly incapable of listening to a word that comes out of their own mouths.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it. – Agatha Christie The photograph adjoining this column is

Let’s get back to the local scene! What is wrong with prosecutors? While our Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office goes after a Campton Hills Trustee

Since everything’s pretty much the same on the local front: The Kane County board Democrats addiction to spending other people’s money means they’re raising taxes,

Oh! The irony! The best thing about journalism in the post-COVID era is all I have to do is sit back and wait.  To wit,

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not

If it weren’t for electricity, we’d all be watching television by candlelight. – George Gobel It was a scant two Saturdays ago when my wife

Considering my general animosity for our impending protagonists, I really didn’t want to waste an entire column on a non-story. You know I’ve never cared