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Interesting. Last year’s referendum (which lost) passed by a narrow margin in Will County — just about 600 votes. So far, there’s a 2000 vote margin in favor of the referendum in Will; It failed in DuPage by about 1500 votes. With DuPage showing a slight bias in favor of the referendum so far, and…

Results as of 9:10pm: Will County: 83% precincts in, 5459 Yes, 3248 No.DuPage County: 15% precincts in, 817 Yes, 636 No. Total: 6276 Yes, 3884 No. (62% yes, 38% no)

Dupage Results hasn’t yet started reporting anything (could this be more fun with Diebold?), but Will County is reporting a bunch. With 25% of the precincts in District 204, it’s 2-1 in favor of the referendum so far. Shannon’s leading Reedy by about 15% in the race for Congress in the 13th District.

I love it. When she won the dunk competition against the boys a couple years ago as a high school senior, it was only a matter of time that Naperville native Candace Parker would dunk in a college game. She picked a heck of a time to do it: in the first round of the…

I’ve been remiss in talking about a local issue that is before the voters in Naperville on Tuesday. Our school district (Indian Prairie School District 204) has again put a bond referendum on the ballot asking whether we can build a third high school. We have two high schools currently (Waubonsie and Neuqua Valley) that…

Fresh on the heels of yesterday’s interview with Marshall Kirkpatrick comes another interview I did this week — with Andrea Weckerle. Andrea is a terrific PR blogger, who also happens to be a law school classmate of mine from way back. She asked a number of interesting questions, and I hope that the answers did…

Driving through the Morton Arboretum last weekend, we let the kids look at the trees while standing in the van. They thought they were getting away with murder! We came to the intersection that connects the east and west parts of the preserve, and I just happened to see this come together in the rear-view…

Marshall Kirkpatrick reached out to me last week and asked if I’d be available for an interview to discuss FeedBurner with his audience at Net Squared. They’re a neat group, and I love what they’re doing to help non-profits figure out how to embrace technology for social change. Marshall covered a lot of ground, the…

Erik Heels: “If Rick is still working for FeedBurner on St. Patrick’s Day 2008, I will die my hair green.” You’re on.

My new co-worker Don Loeb (welcome aboard, Don!) just wrote about a phenomenal prank pulled off by Cal’s student section. More details are here — the short version is that they pulled star Gabe Pruitt’s IM handle out of Facebook.com, invented a coed named Victoria, and flirted for a week. Then, come game time, revealed…