Starting A Business? Not In Naperville
Recently, I sat down with Kevin Oliver who is the owner of a designated driving service called Booze Crews. Below are the highlights of our conversation. Q: Why a designated…
Who paid for that?
The Naperville city council meetings occur the first and third Tuesdays of each month, unless council members are dismissive of agenda topics that are not that important such as citizen…
May we have an answer please…anybody?
It’s not often that you can get a panel of 11 people consisting of politicians, lawyers, and government bureaucrats including the Naperville city council to ‘freeze’ and become speechless for…
This is no time to take time off.
Between June 22 and August 15, the Naperville city council will have conducted one city council meeting (July 19). That is one meeting during a span of 55 days or…
Naperville city council looking for handouts
Naperville is a city of entitlement. The very thing that has caused so much misery to so many is the very thing that the Naperville city council seeks…..an unhealthy dependence…
Naperville city council member Fieseler can ‘save the day’
The majority of Naperville city council specializes in being penny conscious and dollar foolish. The city is swimming in debt and rather than looking for some good footing and heading…
Watchdoggin’ the Naperville city council
Wow, where have the gavel pounding, and vitriolic council member comments gone. Why haven’t we heard a council member refer to a staff member’s action as ‘stupid’. Why haven’t we…
Sliding towards Quartzsite
Quartzsite is a small town in Arizona with a population of 4000 and growing which is far less than Naperville (141,000 and decreasing) yet both towns are the same size…
Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic
If Naperville was a corporation, and the city council was the board of directors, the corporation would be heading towards bankruptcy, and the board of directors would be replaced. It’s…
Naperville city council’s “assault” on information
The Naperville city council is intensifying its effort to force-feed the citizens of Naperville with a diet of unproven technology they do not understand, want or need. The technology in…
Why the rush?
The Naperville city council is hell-bent on pushing the Naperville Smart Grid Initiative forward and they seem to be doing it with what appears to be reckless neglect. So why…
The fight against “Politically Connected”
Illinois State Senator Dan Duffy (R-26th District, Lake Barrington) was recently interviewed for an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The article below describes nepotism in the Illinois state government. …
If the Naperville city council wants it, they take it
So what exactly is ‘it’ that the Naperville city council wants? Well ‘it’ represents anything and everything they want. If they want to delay devising a district or ward map,…
Attention to detail
Today is June 1, and on Friday May 27 I received my City of Naperville electric and water bill. Typically, I give it a quick look to check the total…
Acknowledge and ignore
The Naperville city council is very adept at appearing to listen to their constituency and then ignoring what they just heard. At times, the sound of their silence is almost…