Author: Rick Klau

12 year-old Naperville resident Andrew Gieseler found a sack of cash sitting outside the Target where my family shops. Specifically, there was $9,000 sitting on the walk-way outside the store. He picked it up, and making his Mom (and the town) proud, promptly handed it over to the Target customer service desk, who was able…

Received an announcement this morning about The Principles Project, a new coalition of individuals and groups looking to articulate a core group of Democratic principles. There’s an about page that describes the group’s goals in a bit more detail. One of the group’s chairs is David Wilhelm, former DNC Chair. (Other chairs are Jan Schakowsky,…

This is totally unscientific. But it caught my eye, and this is, aftr all, my blog. So there you go. Here’s a rundown on which search terms concerning the Aurora mayoral race are bringing people to this blog so far this month. Note: each of these search terms list this blog in the top 10…

Love the new Fast Lane blog by GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz: Given the industry’s somewhat spotty record of taking concept cars to production intact, your concerns are understandable. … [T]he Sky, of course, isn’t a concept car at all. That is the full, no-excuses, what-you-see-is-what-you-get production vehicle. We’re playing for keeps. Now that’s an…

I got invited to participate in a conference call hosted by BlogPAC with Howard Dean today; the call was on the record, and was focused on his run for DNC chair. Markos, Jerome, Aldon, Zephyr, and Anna were a few of the attendees, I’m sure they’ll have reports up shortly as well. Update: Anna’s live…

We had our caucus tonight, and I decided that if I ask my members to run for office, I should lead by example. Naperville Township is a township that comprises part of Naperville and part of Aurora; Trustees meet two nights a month. For more on township government in Illinois, the Townships of Illinois website…

Interesting — the latest group to advertise on this site is “Stand Up Democrats”, a group that is “determined to do everything within our power to fix the Democratic Party.” They explain: As a first step, we are collecting ideas from December 14th through January 14th. We will take the best 100 ideas and submit…

I need to pick up a webcam, would prefer not to spend too much. Anyone have any suggestions? (I’m on a PC, so no need to recommend the iSight…)

You ever see a phrase pop up overnight — suddenly it’s everywhere, you have no idea what it means? For me it was last week and it was “the long tail”. I saw it in blogs, I saw it in at least one news item, and someone even referenced it on a phone call. “The…

Father Tim Butler was the priest in my diocese (St. Elizabeth’s) growing up in Acton, Massachusetts. He was also in the Air Force Reserves, and sometime after I graduated from high school, he went active duty and started traveling the world as a chaplain in the Air Force. When my wife and I got married…