Unsure of the date, a friend of McHenry County Blog reports seeing McHenry County Clerk candidate Joe Tirio’s masked face on the Northwest Herald web site. The sighting was made about a week before the election while reading the NWH’s … Continue reading
Under the article reporting the Northwest Herald’s dramatic loss of circulation Monday, a new commenter left the following message. I am certain it will be well read by the paper’s advertising department: I think the NW Herald is suffering the … Continue reading
Circulation figures have been released by the Audit Bureau of Circulation and the Northwest Herald is down a bit. Sunday circulation has held relatively stable at more than 34,000 since 2009, while daily circulation had dropped about about 2,000. September … Continue reading
There may be something symbolic here, but I doubt it was intentional. On Wednesday, December 6, 2011, the Chicago Sun-Times announced that the next day, the 70th anniversary of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, it would start charging for its … Continue reading
Channel Two broadcasts into McHenry County. Maybe CBS would pop for an institutional ad on the four $16,000 TIF monuments on Route 14. = = = = = Photoshopping by one Heck of a Guy blogster Allan Showalter. … Continue reading
If a hockey team can win the Stanley Cup, surely it has earned enough money to pay for ads on Crystal Lake’s four Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing District stone monuments. = = = = = Photoshopping by one Heck … Continue reading
With the contract problems between owners and players, the NBA might be looking for institutional advertising. What better place that the four $16,000 Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing District boundary markers? = = = = = Photoshopping by one Heck … Continue reading
What a perfect ad to place on Crystal Lake’s $16,000 credit-financed TIF monuments: one for MasterCard. = = = = = Photoshopping by one Heck of a Guy blogster Allan Showalter. … Continue reading
Coca-Cola has deep pockets. Maybe the company would help pay the $16,000 that the TIF District monuments each cost on Crystal Lake’s Virginia Street. = = = = = Photoshopping by one Heck of a Guy blogster Allan Showalter. … Continue reading
Of course, if it were a contested Crystal Lake City Council election, the Council members up for re-election might not want to remind people to cast ballots, if they voted for the monument Tax Increment Financing District expenditures. And, it … Continue reading
Public service announcements don’t bring in any revenue to help pay for the four $16,000 monuments, but they would establish that ads could be purchased. = = = = = Photoshopping by one Heck of a Guy blogster Allan Showalter. … Continue reading
If men arrange to ask their fiancés to marry them on billboards and electronic signs in baseball parks, why not with an ad on Route 14’s TIF District monuments? And, it could help pay for the four $16,000 stone pillars. … Continue reading
If the Crystal Lake wants to pay off the $64,000 that the four Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing District stone pillars cost, maybe car manufacturers would be a place to try to sell ads. = = = = = Photoshopping … Continue reading
Yesterday, I suggested that maybe the Crystal Lake City Council could recoup some of the $64,000 it spent of our money on four stone monuments telling people they were on Virginia Street. I say “our” money because the $16,000 apiece … Continue reading
Besides increasing parking fees and fining people $100 for speeding past a camera, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel has come up with an idea that might work in Crystal Lake. He suggests selling space on public places, such as bridge monuments. … Continue reading
With a million dollars on hand, liberal Democrat Melissa Bean had the chance to bury Joe Walsh with negative electronic advertising. With none on the air as best, as I can tell, you wonder if she is saving her money … Continue reading
There’s no admission of guilt, of course. In the recent past Walgreens and CVS have coughed up pretty big settlements in whistle blowing suits. Now, it’s time for one of the most prominent advertising firms in the country. Chicago-based Leo … Continue reading
There’s no admission of guilt, of course. In the recent past Walgreens and CVS have coughed up pretty big settlements in whistle blowing suits. Now, it’s time for one of the most prominent advertising firms in the country. Chicago-based Leo … Continue reading
More effective than any print ad is the upper right hand rotating ad seen on the Northwest Herald web site. Some people apparently think it is an endorsement by the NW Herald. McHenry County State’s Attorney candidate Dan Regna was … Continue reading
More effective than any print ad is the upper right hand rotating ad seen on the Northwest Herald web site. Some people apparently think it is an endorsement by the NW Herald. McHenry County State’s Attorney candidate Dan Regna was … Continue reading
