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Still no State Budget Still no State Budget

IL House Rep. (70th District) Bob Pritchard's Perspective on Illinois Government July... 

Clogged drain Clogged drain

Jim Schneider sent me a note reporting that Cortland’s sewage treatment lagoons... 

Ignoring paid-for studies Ignoring paid-for studies

From this week’s Pritchard’s Report The Governor does not want to balance... 

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Coffee Talk

Salt in the wound Salt in the wound

What value is a public official’s word? OK. Now what should it be? What do... 

Behind closed doors Behind closed doors

The special city council meeting was called to order at 6pm. The council immediately... 

Special City Council Meeting Special City Council Meeting

CALL AND NOTICE SPECIAL MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL June 29, 2009 6:00 p.m. A special... 

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Potpourri

H1N1 Swine Flu Tracker H1N1 Swine Flu Tracker

View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map H1N1 Swine flu in 2009 Pink markers are suspect Purple markers are confirmed Deaths lack a dot in marker Yellow markers are negative  Read More →

Fish are biting Fish are biting

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Main Street Solutions Main Street Solutions

Coming soon, a DeKalb County Online Special Report, on Main Street Solutions to the local economy. Local people. Local problems. Local solutions.  Read More →

April 09 Candidates Survey April 09 Candidates Survey

There’s a group of our finest citizens in communities throughout DeKalb County braving the cold, wind and snow getting the signatures they need to become candidates for local offices. An important process has begun for change in local government. Once the petitions are turned in and certified in mid-January the campaign season begins in earnest.... [Read more of this report]

Fixin’ Glitches Fixin’ Glitches

The weather plugin malfunctioned and caused this website to go down part of Sunday and Monday (Dec 6-7). We took advantage of “unscheduled maintenance” to better organize the information we provide. Presto! A new looking website, again. Behind the scenes we’ve installed several new themes to this website. Changing themes helps clear... [Read more of this report]

The southern part of DeKalb County The southern part of DeKalb County

Statistically speaking, the DeKalb County Online family of websites gets a lot of traffic from the southern portion of DeKalb County… Atlanta, Georgia, that is. In Sept-Oct 2008 the state of Georgia sent us the second most visitors (845) in the nation. It took those folks an average of 28 seconds and a page and a half of reading to figure out... [Read more of this report]

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