Identify the Brian Dugans before they kill
Bill Mego: A week ago, a jury sentenced Brian Dugan to death for the 1983 killing of Jeanine Nicarico. Dugan was the third man who, because he was guilty beyond any reasonable doubt, was condemned to receive society's most severe punishment for that murder.

Call the cops on sleeping babies, napping old men
I was sitting on a little wall on a public sidewalk in downtown Naperville, and I was holding a plastic tarpaulin, but it was OK because I was sure I was not camping. Neither I nor the man with whom I was talking were eating s'mores, and we weren't singing Kumbaya.

Naperville's children being harmed by diet
The best thing about the Forward Coalition, a recently formed confederation of local groups to fight childhood obesity, is that it recognizes that the problem exists right here, in River City so to speak. Ordinarily, the assumption is that problems exist everywhere but here, but the fact is that as many as half of Naperville's children are dangerously ill, and it's our fault.

Naperville should treat library as a priority
As I watched the city of Naperville's first leaf pickup crew drive through our neighborhood, which is all they could do because the leaves were all green and still on the trees, I thought "Thank goodness they're cutting all that financial waste at the library."