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The best things in life — and often in Naperville — are free
One of the most common complaints about Naperville I hear from readers is that there is nothing to do here that isn’t expensive, often too expensive for struggling families. And that’s just not right. Costly events make it impossible for the large group of Napervillians …
Bill Mego: Ask hard questions of City Council candidates
One of the questions I wish someone could ask the candidates for City Council is “What is your vision for Naperville?” That would be a waste of time, of course. It is too philosophical, and opens the candidate to criticisms either from those who want our town to remain like a small town with lots of open space or those who want a more urban city with higher density and more intense economic activity. Nobody would answer it honestly.
Questions council candidates should answer
On March 13, one week from today, the Naperville Area Homeowners Confederation will hold a forum, at 7 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, to allow candidates for the City Council to make statements and answer questions. During the past weeks, I have received from …
Make council hopefuls fly their true colors
With local elections coming up this spring, Naperville SUN Viewpoint columnist Bill Mego urges voters to push candidates to answer questions truthfully, rather than using the political ploy of evading issues.
We need to be able to vote for all the council
Sun Viewpoint columnist Bill Mego contends Naperville City Council members should all be elected at large.
Time to keep guns away from mentally ill
Naperville Sun Viewpoint columnist Bill Mego analyzes gun control proposals.
Proposed Riverwalk extension would be attractive
Sun Viewpoint columnist Bill Mego considers a plan to build a short extension on to Naperville’s Riverwalk.
Future happens even when ‘they’ oppose it
For bad things, like climate change, the future usually happens a lot faster than we would like it to. For good things, it’s usually the opposite. General Motors first built the EV1 automobile in 1996, and drivers loved them. For some reason, however, GM repossessed …
The ‘Sucker State’ could pay for education
Sun Viewpoint columnist Bill Mego looks at the culture of corruption in Illinois politics, but also sees how the state could fulfill one of its duties under the Illinois constitution — pay for education as well as teacher pensions.
It’s time to argue about something else in Naperville
When you start a new year, you would like to think that you could somehow avoid repeating all the foolishness from the year before. One of the things I would like to avoid this year is the kind of contentious argument we had over smart …
Naperville still has the heart of a small town
Personally, I think I would have preferred the “snow goon” style snowmen that the old Calvin and Hobbs comic strip used to feature, but the plastic Snowman Fest that’s going on downtown is kind of cute and will probably disturb far fewer children. While I …
Some bars need to control patrons better
I think that I, and quite a few other people, have been painting the downtown bar situation with too broad a brush. Yes, late at night parts of the downtown look disreputable, even “seedy” as one reader put it, hardly projecting the sophisticated, upscale image …
What will it take to make everyone vote?
I still find it hard to understand why almost 30 percent of eligible DuPage County voters decided to stay home this year. Admittedly, that’s not that much less than the turnout four years ago when 76 percent of voters came out, but this year seemed …
Saloon owners should take responsibility
Naperville SUN Viewpoint columnist Bill Mego takes another look at downtown Naperville’s problem with bar fights.
Your vote matters more than you may think
Today, we practice the custom originally known in Scotland as guising, where you wear a costume to conceal who you really are and whether you intend to perform tricks on people, then go from house to house asking for money. In this country today we …
