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Perplexed about Plote: I see the Illinois Department of Transportation is charging Martam Construction and K-FIVE Construction Corp. nearly $300,000 for not completing Route 59 on time in Naperville....
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More cost than benefitRe: Naperville Township spending, welcome to another episode of your township tax dollars in action.The general assistance fund uses tax money to pay for in- and out- patient...
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Get more for your money: These banks that advertise CDs for 1 percent rates or higher should pay more like Nationwide Bank does for seniors and others who want a better payback. Nationwide Bank is not...
View ArticleManker: Teach kids to 'compete,' and they'll win even if their team loses
Coach youth sports for a while, and you'll see how coaches can often find themselves at the center of a false question: Am I coaching to win, or am I coaching to help mold better athletes and better...
View ArticleMego: These are bad times? Not if you look around Naperville
It's often fashionable, especially during election season, to claim the times are bad. That is, after all, how you encourage dissatisfaction and justify change. But I don't happen to believe that's...
View ArticleSpeak Out: Supreme Court fight ahead, dump Trump, pope's popularity...
Dump Trump: GOP voters need to smarten up and nominate someone who can actually win the election. My prediction is Donald Trump will be the GOP nominee, and Republicans will lose the election by huge...
View ArticleLetters to the editor: Roskam, Kinzler should debate
Debate would inform voters Why is U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam afraid to engage with his opponent and his constituents? His challenger --- Dr. Jay Kinzler - has formally invited him to a true debate where...
View ArticleManker: Losing an hour of sleep small price to pay for 'longer' days
Our elder son is quick to stop me in my tracks when I describe spring and the beginning of daylight saving time as making our days "longer." "Dad, the days aren't really longer. There are still only...
View ArticleJanek: Don't expect to find truth and authenticity on Facebook, social media
Currently, I have 143 Facebook friends. I'm fairly confident that most of them don't "like" me – at least the Facebook me. I haven't updated my Facebook profile picture in more than a year and my last...
View ArticleMego: Changing the clocks for DST a colossal waste of time
I realize I'm in the minority, but I think that running around this Sunday morning, setting every gadget with a clock forward an hour is the dumbest waste of time and energy anyone ever devised....
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Needs roads comparisonI was very disappointed by the story in the March 6 paper concerning the takeover of Naperville Township roads by the Naperville City Transportation Department. The story was a...
View ArticleSpeak Out: House ceilings too high, reform health care, stop talking religion
Keep iPhone information private: I know it's a delicate thing between Apple and the government. I know the government thinks there might be more information on the terrorists' iPhones, but they could...
View ArticleManker: St. Paddy's Parade inspires list of other things to be celebrated
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Everybody loves a parade. That was once again on full display this past weekend at the West Suburban Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade. Throngs of people lined...
View ArticleMeno: 'Tis a good day to celebrate spring, or buzzards, or beer
This is an auspicious day. It is, of course, the first day of spring. The sun is directly over the equator, dividing the day into equal parts of light and darkness. This also happens six months from...
View ArticleSpeak Out: Christie's riding coattails, Jada Pinkett critics wrong, enough...
Rauner's right on budget: This is a rebuttal to the Ted Slowik column on state funding. Illinois currently has an $85.5 billion unfunded pension liability for public employee pensions. This liability...
View ArticleLetters to the editor: Naperville Township spending, Sandra Bland, Land and...
Naperville Township spending questions Welcome to another episode of your tax dollars in action. When you come to the annual Naperville Township town meeting at 7 p.m. April 12 and pick up a copy of...
View ArticleManker: Spring cleaning equals the great purge in Manker household
The tell-tale signs can be found on curbs across Naperville on successive weekday mornings. Bags and boxes, scraps and heaps, trash, tables, toys and whatever else has gone out with the weekly refuse....
View ArticleJanek: Daughter's dance class offers peek into children's lives these days
As parents of involved children, we head into spring — if we're not careful — with our only form of weekend exercise consisting of dragging lawn chairs across super lengthy fields. While...
View ArticleMego: Easter and spring break don't mix
I'm probably the only one who thinks that movable feasts, such as Easter, don't make a whole lot of sense. Supposedly, the current way the date is determined – the first Sunday after the first full...
View ArticleSpeak Out: Too much money for Lovie, help seniors not immigrants, candidate...
Stop the buddy system: Of course something has to be done about health care. Politicians will continue to fight about health care until the Republicans get beneath the sheets with the health care...
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