Oswego Village president Troy Parlier recently was elected the president of the Board of Directors of the Metro West Council of Governments, an organization that represents Oswego and its neighbors in Springfield and Washington on legislation and policies that affect their residents. The MetroWest Council of Governments represents 33 municipalities
By Jason Crane At the Aurora city government Committee of the Whole meeting Tuesday, the City Council focused on the good and the bad of the Fourth of July weekend. Mayor Richard Irvin said, “The Fourth of July experience was undoubtedly a memorable one.” Mayor Irvin made a reference to
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “When you upload your DNA, you’re potentially becoming a genetic informant on the rest of your family.” — Law professor Elizabeth Joh Guilt by association has taken on new connotations in the technological age. All of those fascinating, genealogical, searches that allow you
State representative Stephanie Kifowit, D-Oswego, issued the following statement upon the General Assembly’s adjournment of the Spring legislative session this week: “Earlier this year, we underwent a refreshing, long-sought-after change to House leadership as my colleagues and I came together to elect a new speaker of the House, Emanuel “Chris”
By Jason Crane At the Aurora city government Committee of the Whole (COW) meeting Tuesday through the Zoom video conference platform, the City Council members gave unanimous consent to a resolution to authorize the mayor and City treasurer to complete loan documents and agreements required to complete the grant of
President Joe Biden is proposing to spend more money than I knew existed, on infrastructure and children, families, free college, and much more. I am not opposed to spending all that money, so long as it is aimed at improving our Nation’s weak educational and social outcomes, and so long
Beginning Friday, May 14, the State of Illinois entered a new pathway from Phase 4 COVID-19 Mitigations to a full reopening in Phase 5. The “Bridge to Phase 5” will allow for higher capacity limits and increased business operations. As the public continues to get vaccinated, governor JB Pritzker announced
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Rule by brute force. That’s about as good a description as you’ll find for the sorry state of our nation. SWAT teams crashing through doors. Militarized police shooting unarmed citizens. Traffic cops tasering old men and pregnant women for not complying fast enough
“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitles them,
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead The government should not be in the business of killing its citizens. Nevertheless, the U.S. government continues to act as judge, jury, and executioner, over a populace that has been pre-judged and found guilty, stripped of its rights, and left to suffer at
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “Children are being targeted and sold for sex in America every day.” —John Ryan, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Even in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic, there’s no stopping this year’s Super Bowl LV showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs
The dance of democracy continues this year with the once-a-decade ritual of drawing new State legislative and congressional district lines in Illinois and across the Nation. In two-thirds of the states, including Illinois, the legislators draw the lines. It means the party in power draws maps that favor incumbents and
By John W. Whitehead The Christmas story of a baby born in a manger is a familiar one. The Roman Empire, a police state in its own right, had ordered that a census be conducted. Joseph and his pregnant wife, Mary, traveled to the little town of Bethlehem so that
By Jason Crane The North Aurora Village Board, through the Zoom video conference platform, voted against a third amendment to the annexation agreement for the Moose Lake Estates subdivision at the Board meeting Monday. The Board has spent many hours receiving input from dozens of residents since the October 19,
By Bela (Bill) Suhayda Stealing this or any election is not a risky proposition for Democrats. Media joins them in running interference… even “blacking out” (censorship by omission) the fraud that continues to be the 2020 election, along with a host of other corrupt activity. Dems stole their own primary
With a new wave of COVID-19 surging across Illinois, governor JB Pritzker announced the entire State of Illinois will be under Tier 3 Mitigations as of Friday, Nov. 20, with a number of areas/industries being placed “on pause” until further notice and others still remaining open, but with additional restrictions.
By Sarah Mansur Four restaurants in Sangamon County that continued to offer indoor dining in defiance of governor J.B. Pritzker’s COVID-19 mitigation plan were ordered to shut down temporarily Tuesday. The order from a Sangamon County judge states that the four restaurants, Charlie Parker’s Diner, D&J Cafe, Sweet Basil Cafe,
By John Whitehead The 2020 presidential election may be over, but nothing really has changed. The U.S. government still poses the greatest threat to our freedoms. More than terrorism, more than domestic extremism, more than gun violence and organized crime, even more than the perceived threat posed by any single
By John W. Whitehead Things are falling apart. How much longer we can sustain the fiction that we live in a constitutional republic, I cannot say, but anarchy is being loosed upon the Nation. We are witnessing the unraveling of the American dream one injustice at a time. Day after
By Peter Hancock Heading into the final weekend before Election Day, Illinois voters continue to set records for advance voting, and election officials are urging anyone who has not yet turned in their mail ballot to do so as quickly as possible. “Whether you do that by mail, or by
