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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Central Park plan lacks what band needs
The thing I remember about the first band concert I attended was the raccoons. As I recall, at that time, the band played on an old wooden bandstand that I think was painted green. Seeing a cute little face peeking out from behind the wooden lattice made up for the fact that, in those days, the band didn't play all that well.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Red-light camera studies show increased crashes
We would all like to believe red-light cameras will make our intersections safer. However, a large study at the North Carolina Urban Transit Institute concluded "The results do not support the view that red-light cameras reduce crashes. Instead, we find that RLCs are associated with higher levels of many types and severity categories of crashes."

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Truth, fairness victims of red-light cameras
Remember the good old days when you were considered innocent until proven guilty? OK, that's still true in criminal cases, but the latest fad in governmental revenue enhancement involves prosecuting crime not as a criminal case, but as a strange kind of civil proceeding in which there is no court, no judge, no legal protections and absolutely no chance of being found innocent.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Oppose any idea to divide Naperville into wards
Years ago, I received a call from Jim Wehrli, an old friend for whom I had great affection and respect, asking me to help defeat an attempt to divide Naperville into either four or eight wards, with each having its own alderman. The election turnout was 82 percent, and at-large won, but a sitting councilman is now holding a meeting apparently to revive wards, and I am asking all stakeholders to attend it.

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