Anna Payton, Aurora Animal Care and Control (AACC) manager, answers questions Tuesday at the Aurora Committee of the Whole (COW) meeting in City Hall. The change to the animal wildlife response policy is to decrease operational costs and City liability. AACC will respond to calls for bats in living spaces
We have no real property rights. Think about it. That house you live in, the car you drive, the small, or not so small, acreage of land that has been passed down through your family, or that you scrimped and saved to acquire, whatever money you manage to keep in
Comptroller for the state of Illinois, Susana Mendoza, presented recent numbers with the State’s finances, including the success of the Debt Transparency Act at the office of the Aurora Regional Chamber of Commerce Monday. “Today, it’s relatively good news amongst the bad news with the State’s finances, she said.” “Services
April 30, 2018 Dear editor; I was pleased to find I am in the company of great thinkers, such as Nietzsche, who need to get away to contemplate or write because of a mind full of thoughts. A lot of times I think about our government and our participation as
From the vault, September 12, 2000 (revised): Election season is upon us once again, and this time around a new wind is blowing. It is the wind of populism, not the fake populism Donald Trump peddled two years ago to gain the votes of the disaffected, whom he quickly betrayed
West Aurora Concerned Citizens Neighborhood Group will meet Wednesday, May 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the 5th Ward Community Room, 1921 Galena Boulevard, West Aurora Plaza. Kelvin Beene, Property Standards manager and Dan Barrerio, chief community service officer, both from the city government of Aurora, will be our guest speakers.
North Aurora Police Chief Dave Fisher explains at the North Aurora Village Board meeting Monday the Village’s plans to start prosecuting DUI arrests with a local prosecutor, rather than through the state’s attorney’s office. Village officials unanimously approved a contract with attorney Peter Buh, a private attorney from the law
IMSA student Rishi Modi, center, is honored by Richard Irvin, mayor of Aurora at the Aurora City Council meeting Tuesday. He recently received the Top High School Innovator Award for GoGo Riders, a ride-sharing service that allows customers to negotiate prices for a ride with nearby drivers. He is joined
Dr. Abbas Khawaja, center, is honored by Richard Irvin, mayor of Aurora at the Aurora City Council meeting Tuesday. Khawaja provided more than 50 years of service to the medical community and founded the Fox Valley Muslim Center in 1995. Jason Crane/The Voice
A lottery for party ballot placement in the November 6 general election was held Monday, at the Kane County Clerk’s Office in Geneva. Robert J. Sandner, Kane County chief deputy compliance coordinator, right, closes his eyes and selects one of two pieces of paper with Democratic on one paper and
U.S. congressman Bill Foster (D. 11th) released the following statement Tuesday on president Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Iran Nuclear Deal: “I strongly condemn president Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran Nuclear Deal. President Trump’s announcement shows his diplomatic incompetence and his technical ignorance
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams, U.S. Navy, gives remarks to approximately 60 individuals in Aurora at the Kane County Health Department roundtable on the opioid drug epidemic. On the panel to his left are Chris Lauzen, Kane County Board chairman, U.S. congressman Randy Hultgren, 14th District. In the audience
What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly-contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting, and disingenuous curtain of political theater. And what political theater it is, diabolically Shakespearean at times, full of sound and fury, yet in the end, signifying nothing. Played
The recently-formed city of Aurora Youth Council (AYC) held its inaugural YOUTHTalk forum at Prisco Center in Aurora Tuesday. The event moderated by members of the AYC focused on how to be a mindful member of school communities and take preventive measures to promote safety. The event was free and
This too shall pass! Even though attribution for the above phrase to the Christian bible is only partially true, it is not a direct quote. In our combined secular and religious world, this too shall pass is used to prevail over conflict, difficulty, disappointment, and troubled times. What does not
Phillip J. Smith is sworn in as chief of police for the Village of Montgomery by deputy Village clerk, Debbie Buchanan Tuesday. Former Police Chief Dan Meyers retired after 33 years. Smith was chief of police in west suburban Berkeley for the past four years. Smith has 27 years of
• Kane County’s Recycling collection event: The next one-day event will be Saturday, May 12 from 8 a.m. to noon at 540 S. Randall Road. Electronics and books will be accepted at this event. There is a fee for TVs and computer monitors, both tube and flat screen, of $25.
Is the U.S. government evil? You tell me. This government treats its citizens as faceless statistics and economic units to be bought, sold, bartered, traded, tracked, tortured, and eventually eliminated once they’ve outgrown their usefulness. This government treats human beings as lab rats to be caged, branded, experimented upon, and
Mayor Richard Irvin of Aurora, right, holds the State champions flag with Marmion Academy club ice hockey team members at the Aurora City Council meeting Tuesday. Marmion won the high school White Division State championship March 16 with a 2-1 victory over New Trier Gray in overtime at the United
Observing Joe Wiegand portray Theodore Roosevelt Saturday, April 14 was informative and fun. As a society we are nearly singularly focused on our presidents in the political realm. One reason is the chief executive sets a tone in word and deed. Wiegand used his one-man show to inform the audience
