Naperville Mayor Steve Chirico Wants To Silence The ‘Speakers’
The advantage to having a successful business person as mayor is that he knows how to run a city as a successful business. Seems like common sense doesn't it, yet…
Naperville Councilman Benny White, I’m Normal, You’re Not
Anybody who drives slower than me is an idiot, and anyone who drives faster than me is a maniac. So by my standards, that makes me normal, and everyone else…
Judy Brodhead Shirks Responsibility As Naperville City Council Member
There is a reason residents vote for term limits, and that reason is enough is enough when it comes to politicians taking up space at the dais, and wasting time…
Five Naperville City Council Members Almost Support The Police But…
It's easy for someone to say they support somebody or something, but it's another thing to turn those words into action. All nine members of the Naperville city council support…
Impeaching The Naperville City Council
It's not difficult to impeach a politician, considering impeachment is nothing more than an indictment; it's been said you can indict a sandwich. President Trump set a record by being…
Naperville Pot Festival, Why Not
If St. Anne, Illinois can have a successful Pumpkin Festival every year, why can't Naperville have a yearly Pot Festival! Think of the possibilities of transitioning from Family Friendly Naperville…
3000+ Naperville Electric Utility Users Watching Their Meters
COVID has created a new activity for Naperville Electric Utility users; they can watch the little dials move around on their electric meters. Looks like some folks in Naperville are…
Naperville City Council, Four Winners, Seven Losers
One election is down, and another looms after the New Year. No, I'm not talking about another election that can be stolen, the Georgia runoff, I'm talking about the Naperville…
Some Naperville Property Owners Could Get $4 City Tax Cut
It was an exciting day in the Watchdog household, when the family gathered around the kitchen table covered with never-before-worn masks. Finally, some good news, something other than which masks…
The World According To Naperville Council Members Brodhead And White
Some of us are old enough to remember when professors in college encouraged students to think for themselves rather than being told what to think. Somewhere along the way it…
Naperville Mayor Steve Chirico Takes Heat For Attending Wedding
Making the front page of two successive issues of the Naperville Sun, is one thing, but who would have guessed that Naperville's mayor, Steve Chirico, would qualify to be the…
Naperville City Council Threatens Citizens With Possible Mask Mandate
Sometimes it all comes down to timing. Things were rolling along just fine during the last city council meeting, November 17, the pre-Thanksgiving meeting, when feathers seldom get ruffled, but…
Welcome Back Grant
It finally caught up to Grant Wehrli, not that he lost an election, but that he had to run against a real person, a candidate that qualified to run for…
DuPage County Board Loses, Naperville City Council Wins
Until cloning becomes a successful venture, somebody can only be in one place at a time. Often I have wished for a clone of myself so he could run errands…
Hey, Please, Take My Leaves
It's that time of the year again, World Series, election, and leaves. Naperville's leaf pick-up program probably keeps someone at the Municipal Center up late at night during this 6-week…