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Here’s something to make critics smile: … Continue reading
Category Archives: Blog
The Public Access Division of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office has ruled that McHenry County Blog is to be considered “media” under the Freedom of Information Act. McHenry County Blog is now the only blog in Illinois certified as a … Continue reading
You can read about the Illinois Supreme Court case here. You can read about Lou Bianchi’s suit here. … Continue reading
The bold enough to run against State Rep. Jack Franks last year has started writing a blog. It’s called Illinoyances. Click on its cute name to find it. You remember his name–Steve Reick. He pulled Jack Franks winning margin down … Continue reading
Friday after Tuesday’s election, the Chicago Tribune published a story about the Bill Prim-Andy Zinke Sheriff’s contest. At one point far into the article reporter Bob McCoppin focused on the impact of bloggers. Lou Bianchi answered, “Did bloggers have an … Continue reading
The following email was received from Dave Bachmann, who operated the blog “Dirty Keith vs. Dirty Harry.” Bachmann ran as a Democrat for McHenry County Coroner in 2008, losing to incumbent Marlene Lantz. Re: Zane Seipler candidacy For those in … Continue reading
Since the following court decision expands protections for bloggers, such as McHenry County Blog, it is being reprinted in full. My thanks for an alert Friend of McHenry County Blog for telling me about it. Highlighting and additional paragraphing has … Continue reading
Zane Seipler’s blog about the McHenry County Sheriff’s race is a place I keep checking, even though he does not update it daily. The latest article, entitled “Discrepancies,” is ostensibly about the incompleteness of the replies of Freedom of Information … Continue reading
I’m not sure what this means, but a lobbying firm named Stateside Associates has scoured local blogs in the nation and selected what it considers the best in each state. For Illinois two were selected. One, “Clout Street,” is run … Continue reading
Here’s something interesting. The State Journal-Register, which has its well-designed Downtown building up for sale is apparently trying to gain internet traffic by promoting local blogs. Of course, officially, they are offering to increase the traffic of the linking blogs: … Continue reading
Jim Zoes posted the following thoughtful comment on my story “Those Pesky Bloggers.” This is old news, in fact. Back in 1993 and 1994, some were waking up to the fact that the Internet paradigm was changing everything. Before blogs … Continue reading
Peoria Pundit keeps watch on his local media’s decline, not the mention to decline of what he calls “dead tree” media. Recently he pointed readers to a talk by Jay Rosen, who writes “Press Talk, Ghost of Democracy in the … Continue reading
Part 1 and Part 2 of my day in Magistrate P. Michael Mahoney’s Rockford courtroom last Friday have run previously. The attorney representing three deputies involved in the Pavlin court case sought to have his clients exempted from deposition questioning … Continue reading
It was an unlucky Friday, the 13th, for a blogger from New Jersey named Hal Turner. Here’s a press release for fellow bloggers, compliments of Chicago’s U.S. Attorney’s Office: INTERNET RADIO TALK SHOW HOST HAL TURNER CONVICTED OF THREATENING THREE … Continue reading
It was October, 2005, when the Vulcan Lakes TIF proposal by the city council spurred me to start McHenry County Blog. I knew–and knew that most others didn’t–that every dollar that gets poured into a Tax Increment Financing District’s project … Continue reading
Dave Bachmann’s “Dirty Keith vs. Dirty Harry” blog has been around since early September. He has received about 13,000 visitors since then. A new blog entitled, “McHenry County Sheriff’s Department Exposed,” is now up and running. It is a product … Continue reading
Not many locally elected officials have blogs. Today I discovered one for Denise Barreto, elected to the Lake in the Hills village board last spring. Her blog is the only one I know of in McHenry County. It’s called, Denise … Continue reading
I happened upon GrayMattersPolitical and Societal Commentary It’s written by a relative new blogger who lives in Crystal Lake. Raised here, his name is John Gray and he is building an IT consulting business, Gray Matter Innovations. Here’s what Gray … Continue reading