Naperville Councilwoman Patty Gustin, At The Corner Of Absurd And Ridiculous
Why is it that so often when someone gets elected to office, they feel the need to over regulate, micro-manage, and invade the lives of those they are supposed to…
Naperville City Council, Candidate For Joining AA
I've been focused on losing some weight, well actually a lot of weight. I made the decision on March 11 and I'm about 50% on the way to reaching my…
DuPage County Court Says No To Naperville
The City of Naperville was recently ranked by Money Magazine as the 10th best city to live in, but that didn't carry any clout with the DuPage County Court, when…
Naperville’s ‘Got This Thing And It’s ——- Golden’
In my lifetime, I have seen four Illinois Governors (Koerner, Walker, Ryan, and Blagojevich) land in the Graybar Hotel for various indiscretions. Most recently and still a resident of the…
Naperville Playing Games With Raising Legal Age For Tobacco
Here we go again. Just when you think Naperville city officials have an opportunity to make a huge statement and take an unprecedented stand on an issue, they shrink down…
Naperville Councilwoman Brodhead, ‘Do We Still Have A Drinking Problem Downtown?’
It wasn't that long ago, when chaos, bedlam, and mayhem were breaking out in downtown Naperville on weekend nights. An abundance of liquor-providing establishments along with over-serving have a way…
Labor Day Weekend, Last Fling, What To Write About
Typically I am never at a shortage of topics to write about. Often times I will have three or four postings already written just waiting to be posted. I am…
Naperville Councilman Krummen Says Not A Hardship But A Choice
When Naperville approved the Water Street Project, a huge development in downtown Naperville, it signaled the move from Naperville being known as family friendly, to the new era of making…
Councilwoman Obarski Has It All Wrong With BASSET
There must be times when Naperville Mayor Steve Chirico thinks he is dealing with a dais half-full of misfits. Of course he would never admit to it. He has too…
Councilman Krummen Hates Cigarettes, I Hate Garlic, Let’s Outlaw Them
In Naperville the age to purchase cigarettes is 18, while the age to sell them is 16. It seems like a disconnect, and the Naperville city council wants to rectify…
Naperville City Council Meeting, Exciting News, 50% Off
If you want to sell a used car, slice and dice cheese with your newest slicer and dicer invention, or announce your candidacy for city council, you can do it…
Naperville City Council In One Word, ‘Boring’
Be careful what you vote for, you just might get it. When the current Naperville city council was seated in 2015, there were six new members on the nine member…
No City Council Meeting, No Regulation, No Problem
The Naperville city council may need to be re-educated about conducting council meetings considering that between June 22 and August 15, a period of 55 days, there was only one…
Not Thinking Things Through, “That’s What We Do Here In Naperville”
Well, here they go again, Naperville city officials want to go into partnership with another company, Trillium, a private compressed natural gas (CNG) provider. The Naperville city council will be…
Simple Yet Impactful Show Of Support For Police
More and more blue lights are being turned on throughout the country, as a show of support for police officers nationwide. No one knows for sure when the idea began.…