Government Consolidation, Not In My Backyard
Isn't it amazing how we oftentimes are willing to 'support' an idea, until we realize how it can negatively impact us. You probably have seen the video clip asking Wal-Mart…
Naperville City Council Could Learn From Senior Task Force
Naperville city officials assembled a Senior Task Force in 2015 assigned to create a framework of amenities and designs for housing that builders can use in order to meet the…
Government Consolidation Gone Wild
Just when you think government consolidation has simmered down a bit with the Naperville Township Road supervisor and the City of Naperville, word has surfaced that an unknown individual has…
Naperville City Council Provides Material For Watchdog
If it wasn't for the Naperville city council and city officials, Watchdog's postings would be out of business. I suppose Watchdog could move on to other towns, but more and…
Reducing Fiefdoms Is A Slow Process
Pouring cold honey out of a container is a very slow moving process, akin to trying to reduce the number of redundant government entities. That's what a bill signed last…
How About A Council Member ‘Thank You’ To The Voters
In 22 days we will have a new President and a 100% new administration. In 96 days we could have up to a 50% new Naperville city council with the…
Sign Of The Times
There is always somebody or some group trying to regulate somebody, or some other group. Isn't that partially why government exists; the perk of regulating. For most of us the…
Naperville Doesn’t Have A Heroin Problem, It Has A Lumen Problem
There was reason for celebration among Naperville city council members this week, when they found something else they can regulate. This time is was signage, both residential and business/commercial. The…
Who Wants To Maintain Naperville Township Roads
This simple question has been getting bounced around for quite some time, and it may finally be getting to the point of being resolved. The idea of consolidating maintenance of…
Naperville City Council Curtails Individuals Freedoms
Let's set the record straight, nobody in their right mind thinks tobacco smoking is a good idea. So when the Naperville city council approved legislation to increase the age for…
Eight Candidates Running For Four Naperville City Council Seats
Naperville is a city of approximately 144,000 residents, with eight candidates running for four Naperville city council seats in the April 4 Municipal election; one candidate out of every 18,000…
Naperville City Council’s 582 Days With No Ogden Results
It wasn't that long ago when council members could get elected over and over again with no concern about being unseated. That changed in 2010 when Naperville residents voted in…
2016 City Of Naperville Community Survey
Does it seem we are getting more and more surveys from everywhere, with less and less customer service satisfaction. Maybe it's me, but it's almost impossible not to be asked…
Naperville’s Leaf Pick-Up Program Not Picking Up
On paper and in theory, the City of Naperville's Leaf Pick-up program sounds fantastic, but in reality, it's not working and nobody really seems to care. For the most part,…
128 Days And Counting
The World Series just ended, followed by the Presidential election, then Thanksgiving, now we are racing towards Christmas, New Year's, the Superbowl, Valentine's Day, Easter, and then appropriately April Fools…