Today in talking to the gas company - I was told they are thinking the price of Natural Gas may reach $3.00 a therm by this winter.

The City of Evanston continues to waste taxpayer money on affordable housing efforts with little real results.

The City of Evanston has appointed a Blue Ribbon Committee to research how it came to be that the Firemen and Police Pension Fund is under-funded in excess of $140,000,000.

Tower talk in Evanston has died down recently, with the Fountain Square project tabled until the Plan Commission acts on the larger downtown plan.

What a pleasure it is for the Bike Lady to see so many other Evanston residents out and about on bikes, especially in the morning on the way to work.

On Thursday, June 19, Resurrection Health Care and Saint Francis Hospital will host a community health roundtable forum focused on opening the national discussion of healthcare reform to the community.

As I walked in the door around 11:30 p.m. tonight, after returning home from the four-hour-long D65 School Board meeting, the first thing I saw was the sign my daughter stood holding earlier in the evening which read, “I matter.”  It made me sad to think that after hearing the powerful testimony of parents on how school hours impact them and their families, that D65 leaders would stand by their decision to move Lincoln, Lincolnwood, and Oakton to a later 9:00 a.m. start time beginning next year.

Watching the council members ask silly questions about minor expense report items of the assessor tonight at the township meeting- such as her meals and the classes she is taking- while these same people have no problems giving thousands of dollars of taxpayer money on their pet projects and to special interest groups is disgusting.

The president of the Central Street Neighbors Association tried to stir up the fears of his density-phobic neighbors last week by setting up a straw-man list of high population-density communities he figured they wouldn't like.