This from a reader: “Yesterday we got our delivery of not one but two phone books. Even though I do most of my phone number lookups on the computer, I do like having one copy of a phone book on hand for reference. But why do we get two? And if I’m correct, we also [...]
I figured out a long time ago that, in a lot of minds, you’re not really working (i.e. engaged in meaningful activity) unless you don professional attire and leave the house with a briefcase in your hand each morning on your way to a paycheck-generating enterprise. Well, I haven’t belonged to that group for many [...]
The Downers Grove Reporter rolled out its redesign a couple of weeks ago and while I abhor the decision to give over one whole page — and the cover, at that — to a photo, I think it’s a definite improvement. The paper seems to have increased its meeting coverage, not only in the paper [...]
My column in today’s Downers Grove Sun concerns the Downers Grove Community Advocates. Read it here.
Back when I was paid to hang out in newsrooms, we had a little fun at the New York Tiimes’ expense. We reconstructed that paper’s self-important motto, All the News That’s Fit to Print, as “all the news that fits we print.†Lame journalist humor that, come to think of it, describes our own Downers [...]
Every Downers Grove voter with an e-mail address knows how important this venue is to campaign committees or any interested citizen with a particular cause to espouse. Indeed, some of us believe the e-mail campaign is likely to forever change the way candidates make their case for election. For one thing, e-mail is cheaper—a whole [...]
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