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Archive for February, 2007

Council winners

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Filed under: Uncategorized, citycouncil, politics

I think I’ll be the first to call the winners in the primary race for Elgin city council. Why not?
With all Kane and 15 of 16 Cook County precincts counted, the six winners are:

David J. Kaptain
F. John Steffen
Michael Powers
Brenda Rodgers
Thomas K. Sandor
Tricia L. Dieringer

Despite all the union money, Sandor, the fundraising leader, finished fifth, […]

Jesus gets a free car wash

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Filed under: Uncategorized

(sara_snowwhite via flickr)
After hearing about James Cameron’s miraculous “discovery” of “Christ’s tomb”, I couldn’t resist. (That’s Dundee Avenue by the way, if you don’t recognize it.)
It was reported that the probability of getting that assemblage of names randomly is 600 to 1, though one statistician said it is as high as 100 to 1. […]

Council candidates to solve global warming

Monday, February 26th, 2007
Filed under: Uncategorized, citycouncil, politics

Mr. Bennett probably had the most reasonable answer to this question!

Vote for Old School

Monday, February 26th, 2007
Filed under: citycouncil, politics

There she is again, Old School! She’s great. Here’s your write-in candidate, folks.