Category: The First Ward Report

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. – Robert F. Kennedy Since murders, and particularly murder-suicides,

The temper of the multitude is fickle. ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince Though we’ll be specifically discussing Elgin, Illinois, that microcosmic reality readily applies to any major

I believe in nothing. – Ted Kaczynski I rarely set out to violate my former newspaper editor Rick Nagel’s caution against turning inward for a

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt. — often attributed to Abraham Lincoln If I

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. – Hanlon’s Razor I have to admit I came within millimeters of trampling all

I thought I’d seen some semblance of everything this existence has to offer – good and bad. But watching Elgin poet laureate Gareth Mann single-handedly

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines. — Claude Shannon I

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. – Phil Donahue Though I’m sure you’ve already determined the catalyst for this column, with the

It’s time to catch up on and dispense with a number of previous stories, so let’s get to it! The Treasurer didn’t shove anyone First,

It is with an incredibly heavy heart that I have to announce Sheriff Ron Hain just confirmed that former Kane County Circuit Clerk and Republican