The First Ward

Recent Kane County events got me thinking about some of my favorite on-air conversations with former Ward and Jones co-host and retired South Elgin police

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. – Walt Whitman I had to think long and hard about this possibility

There are times when I really don’t enjoy being a journalist and this is one of them. There may be more distasteful things on this

The two pillars of ‘political correctness’ are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth. – Author George MacDonald Fraser Don’t

We have met the enemy and he is us! – Walt Kelly For ‘tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard;

Markets that don’t exist don’t care how smart you are. ― Entrepreneur Marc Andreessen In an abundantly predictable move, after CVS, Whole Foods, SuperValu, Target, and

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost

It would seem as if some of my major electoral predictions didn’t pan out, particularly in regard to those local referenda, so let’s take a

A committee of the hole I’d really like to blame this latest development on our infamous Elgin city council Gang of Four (Dixon, Steffen, Powell,