The Kane County Diagnostic Center has a new program for troubled teens. Sold to the county board as a way to save taxpayer money, the sign-up sheet is being compiled by Dr. Tim Brown, director of the Kane County Diagnostic Center, who proposed the program months ago and...
Posted May 7, 2010 | 15:16:48 (EST)
I'm approaching my 58th birthday, have been divorced as long as I was married, and yet I still have to make copies of my joint custody papers. Someone told me when you have kids and get divorced, it never ends. Amen.
So when a Kane County judge ordered me to...
Posted December 29, 2009 | 16:31:34 (EST)
I tried to find the Bears vs. Vikings game on Monday Night Football, and wound up with a fantasy game where the Bears actually played an impressive game and won. Even before halftime with the Bears leading Minnesota 16-0, it seemed more like a football version of Space Jam. Here...
Posted May 31, 2009 | 18:00:45 (EST)
In this world of reality TV and the self-absorbed, it was a wonderful respite to journey into the unreality and self-absorption of the Spinal Tap world on May 30 at the historic Chicago Theatre before the fictitious group headed to Milwaukee for the final stop.
The tour, which began...
Posted April 23, 2009 | 21:10:46 (EST)
A recent article in Editor and Publisher reports the number of reporters in newsrooms is down at a level not seen since the early 1980s. That hardly seems surprising since the so-called local newspapers have been swallowed up in recent years by greedy conglomerates like Gatehouse Media and we...
Posted May 16, 2008 | 14:05:39 (EST)
The last time I talked with Nathan Smith, a Kentucky superdelegate, he was not about to commit his support to either candidate.
With Kentucky's primary coming up on Tuesday, I asked him again whom he supports.
"I'm still uncommitted," he said. "I'm interested to see what the...
Posted February 29, 2008 | 09:44:42 (EST)
Superdelegate. Phoebe Crane of Indiana is one, and calls it "an unfortunate use of the term."
"You think of people flying around in capes or something and we really don't have any more powers," she said.
For me, that conjures up a vision of the 1960s cartoon
Posted December 4, 2007 | 08:35:05 (EST)
The following piece was produced by HuffPost's OffTheBus.
There's a quiet death among us, and no one seems to notice.
"Journal Star leader says it's time to go," reads the headline.
That would be the Peoria Journal Star, one of hundreds of small and...
Posted June 30, 2010 | 17:37:24 (EST)