Saturday, March 24, 2018

Top Reality Show just marches on with Diamond Tee

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Noticed that I had not blogged for quite a while but I have not been silent. I have just been tweeting away instead with some 1350 tweets on...
Monday, September 25, 2017

Take a Knee in respect of our Flag

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My immediate and current reaction to Diamond Tee's slamming of NFL players for taking a knee at during our Nation Anthem is clear. Doubl...
Saturday, August 19, 2017

Close HP Country Club in 2018

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The Park District of Highland Park is 101% right to close the HPCC in 2018 and naturalize the majority of the Flood Plain property. The High...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Diamond Tee Dump #5 Hope was buried in Charlottesville.

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My observations of Diamond Tee over the past seven Presidential months of his hate, bullying and crazy antics really have amplified my emoti...
Monday, June 19, 2017

Diamond Tee Dump #4 Hate, Fate and Our Optimism

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If we chose to allow our leaders to provide an immoral normal for our society we must become real about our future. Eventually, if we let th...
Sunday, March 19, 2017

The Budget and Conservatism

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Listening to the unveiling of the White House budget gave me some pretty extended pains and torment, but as the debate and discussion unveil...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Warped Political Reality Rules for now

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In the old days when some politician would lie, be obscene, wallow in the mud, or just try to impersonate the devil during a campaign, they ...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Diamond Tee Dump # 3 America First!

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I was hoping by now that the campaign rhetoric would have ceased with President Trump and he would have moved on to showing a few olive bran...
Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Diamond Tee Dump #2

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I am embarrassed that Donald J. Trump is our President of the United States. With his lying, bullying, threatening and empowering a cast of ...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Diamond Tee Dump #1

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I'm Done. All of Trumps stupid ill-advised promises to his alt right cronies are being delivered in spades. There will be no pivot, no t...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Lake County Board Votes to Keep IMRF Pension

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Yesterday I watched the Lake County Board vote to support its members to receive a IMRF pension. While I was able to promote a vigorous deba...
Saturday, January 07, 2017

Get it Done School District 112

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It has been many years, a referendum, some studies, and plenty of Chaos that has proceeded lack of current direction by our elementary schoo...
Thursday, January 05, 2017

HP City Council Candidates - First Glimpse and Evaluation

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Well, since my retirement I know I have become more irrelevant in the Political World and that is just fine with me. Anyways how many people...
Sunday, January 01, 2017

Potus-Elect Trump Dump # 3 Dumbing Down the US of A

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Denial of Climate Change, Voodoo Economics, Allowing Pollution to flourish, and pushing back civil rights and liberties to darker times woul...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

President-Elect Trump Dump #2

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Almost three weeks of hoping and praying that some common sense judgement and decisions would emerge from the lips of the Potus-Elect. My p...
Friday, November 11, 2016

President-Elect Trump Dump #1

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Elected, to be sworn into office in January, this man Donald J. Trump will be the next President of the United States whether we like it or ...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Twisted Trump Dump #2

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Twisted Donald Trumps decline in the polls could not be more satisfying to me. This pompous nitro powered egotistical person is so far off t...
Friday, August 05, 2016

Twisted Trump Dump #1

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I have been tweeting about Twisted Donald Trump for many months and really need to vent with more than 140 words per shot. While I almost w...
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Help us Kill The Route 53 extension Now and Forever

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The currently projected 2.65 Billion Dollar Route 53 Extension into Lake County took a big hit when our Chairman Aaron Lawlor courageously r...
Friday, May 13, 2016

The Lake County Board Should Reform Redistricting to be Fair to Citizens

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Five years ago a few Lake County Board Member Republicans sat around a table and put forward the Republican minded redistricting for the 201...
Thursday, May 05, 2016

Allow Public Online Access to our Committee Meetings! Now!

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Do you think we should have a recorded feed to our Finance and other Lake County Board Committee Meetings? Yes, of course you do because in ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

State Legislators don't support Collaboration on Consolidation of local governments

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Where is the Beef? Last year when we finally got some traction on Centralizing Assessments in Lake County to save our taxpayers 4.4 million ...
Friday, April 15, 2016

Transparency and Honest Government Demands Tax Referendums in November

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I was sitting in a meeting the other day with a bunch of fine well meaning folks that work hard for our community. We agreed about the lack ...
Monday, February 08, 2016

Vote No on 198 Million 112 School Referendum

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During the course of my 20 years in public service, I have often asked my fellow elected officials to help me find ways of reducing the hug...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Reorganizing government requires Bold and Angry representatives

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You need not look any further then ourselves to find solutions to problems we have with high taxation. The one report from Lake County staff...
Thursday, December 03, 2015

Everybody should be able to watch Lake County Committee meetings

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Lake County Board Member Sandy Hart brought forward a request to start video recording our Finance Committee so the public could watch and h...
Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Representing The People

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Current events in Chicago and Fox Lake have again made me reflect on my role as an elected official being challenged with official miscondu...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Buying Public Land is a Huge Tax Increase and loss of Open Space

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When I served on the City Council with Mayors Pierce, Geraci, and Belsky, we worked as ONE government representing the people of Highland Pa...
Sunday, September 06, 2015

Kentucky Clerk Needed to follow the law and should be Removed

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When we take the oath of office we swear to support the constitution and the laws of our nation. For those politicians and elected officials...
Thursday, September 03, 2015

4.4 Million in Centralizing Assessments should remain a Lake County Priority

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Yesterday at the Finance Committee I asked if we were adding "Centralized Assessments for Lake County" on our 2016 Legislative Age...