Potluck Blog turns to tax talk
Stirring the Pot: In a 5-4 vote recently, the Naperville City Council agreed to raise the property tax rate from 0.7167 percent to 0.7367 percent. The city has in the past approved a property tax rate increase and then lowered it when assessments are released, and officials claim the same thing will happen this time.

Bloggers debate severity of H1N1
Stirring the Pot: In recent years it seems there is always a "next epidemic" identified by scientists as being poised to sweep across the world and cause millions of deaths, and at least up to now, all of these predictions have proven to be overblown.

Bloggers weigh in on library cuts
Stirring the Pot: The Naperville Public Library is consistently at the top of the list of best libraries in the country. However, it has seen a reduction in its tax levy two years in a row, dropping six percent in 2009 and nearly seven percent in 2010.

Stirring the pot Bloggers join health care debate
Over the past few months, our nation has been consumed with the debate over healthcare reform.

What are your memories of Sept. 11?
Stirring the Pot: Where were you on Sept. 11, 2001? People in my parents' and grandparents' generation will never forget what they were doing when they heard President John F. Kennedy had been shot. For my generation, that "where were you" moment was the day terrorists hijacked four planes and crashed three of them into American landmarks, with the fourth plunging into a Pennsylvania field.

Unwelcome guest speaker?
President Barack Obama's decision to give a live televised address to American schoolchildren yesterday has stirred up quite a bit of controversy from parents worried about the president's message.