The Chicago Tribune has released it endorsements for McHenry County posts. You can read them below: Board Chairman: This is the first time voters will elect the McHenry County Board chairman instead of having board members choose their own leader. … Continue reading
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The Chicago Tribune has endorsed West Dundee Village Trustee Allen Skillicorn for State Representative to replace retiring Mike Tryon. Here’s what the editorial says: 66th District: Our first question to the four candidates running for this House seat: Anyone play … Continue reading
The Chicago Tribune has issued its endorsements for State Representative. Here’s what was said about Steve Reick’s district (or should I say Jack Frank’s district, as it has been for the last eighteen years): 63rd District: The Republican who emerges … Continue reading
Didn’t get to reading the Chicago Tribune on Friday. Now I find that it has endorsed Barrington Hills Village President Martin McLaughlin for the 26th District State Senate seat that Dan Duffy is vacating. Here’s the endorsement: 26th District: Three … Continue reading
A full-page ad on the back page of Sunday’s Chicago Tribune tries to convince people to call State Rep. Carol Sente to urge her to vote against Senate Bill 1229, the legislation that would strip Governor Bruce Rauner of collective … Continue reading
The Chicago Tribune had a big editorial Sunday urging so-called “Independent” Democrats: Don’t cave to Madigan Why Independent House Democrats should put taxpayers first Included in the editorial was the following about State Rep. Jack Franks: Two other Democrats, Jack … Continue reading
Sunday’s Chicago Tribune is full of information about pension excesses that will make your blood boil. I’d suggest you buy the paper, if you don’t subscribe. There is a data base (I only managed to get it up once) that identifies … Continue reading
I think it was the day after the Republican Presidential Debate and a Chicago Tribune article quoted Megyn Kelly’s question to Donald Trump about women. Included was Trump’s reply with the exception of Trump’s interjection of Rosie O’Donnell’s name. I … Continue reading
Looking at the circulation figures of USSPI I found an interesting factoid. Look at the table below: Focus in on the McHenry County line. 110,000 households. The information shows what percentage of the households receive the Chicago Sun-Times and Tribune … Continue reading
The aborted attempt to segregate three Pro-Life booths, one three booth spaces wide, in what was originally labeled a “Faith Tent” had not received any mainstream media until Friday night at 6:45. That’s when the Chicago Tribune ran an article … Continue reading
Tuesday, the Chicago Tribune editorial was about the teacher pension problem. Too many claims on too few dollars. As regular readers know, teacher union lobbyists regularly urged legislators to skip making payments for pensions in order to increase State Aid … Continue reading
The Chicago Tribune is showing how media can drive public policy. In this case, it concerns Red Light Cameras, which were approved by the Illinois General Assembly when Chicago, then other municipalities claimed they were needed to reduce traffic accidents. … Continue reading
For the second day in a row, the Chicago Tribune has a front page story on Red Light Cameras. Today’s headline reads, CITY COLLECTS $140 MILLION AT QUESTIONABLE CAMERAS Study: No safety benefit for many red light devices that pop up … Continue reading
State Senator Dan Duffy has a long-standing campaign against Red Light Cameras. He, among may others concluded that their installation was for raising revenue, not reducing accidents. Now a $14,000 study financed by the Chicago Tribune has added significant weight … Continue reading
So your son leaves his lunch at home. What do you do? If you follow the advice I got in grade school, you don’t take the lunch to school. You let him learn a lesson. Former top ranking Lake County … Continue reading
The Chicago Tribune endorsed Jim Harrison over Bill Prim for McHenry County ‘Sheriff. The endorsement is below: Sheriff: The bare-knuckle brawling between State’s Attorney Lou Bianchi and Sheriff Keith Nygren is finally coming to an end. Nygren is retiring. The … Continue reading
Yesterday the Tribune endorsed State Rep. David McSweeney. Today, its Editorial Board endorsed State Rep. Jack Franks and Barb Wheeler. No surprises because McSweeney’s and Wheeler’s opponents have been pretty close to invisible. Bill Downs of Cary is running against … Continue reading
The Chicago Tribune is running another story about the Oakwood Hills power plant proposal in its Saturday edition. There is a video of an interview of an Oakwood Hills mom in which she says her family will move if the … Continue reading
There was an article in the Chicago Tribune on July 9th about the concern of Oakwood Hills area residents had over the proposal to build a huge power plant behind the Village Hall. (I notice that that article says the … Continue reading
Richard Young’s vision of a memorial in front of the courthouse that would remind people that members of the Armed Forces over the years are the reason our system of government exists was fulfilling Thursday morning. The Chicago Tribune created … Continue reading