It’s been almost 11 years now since we moved to our home in Old Courthouse Road.  In 1997, OCR was a quiet, sleepy street dominated mostly of families who moved there in the 60’s.  My husband and I have come to know them very well because we were one of the younger families on our street.  Back then, life was simple, nothing disturbed the peace and the biggest concern was what to have for dinner.

Fast forward to 2008, 13 accidents, close to 12,000 cars a day, 296 speeding tickets from Au...

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I saw these cartoons about Blagojevich on MSNBC, the one above is my favorite, it is by Chris Britt, Springfield, IL The State Journal-Register.  Here are the rest http://www.cagle.msnbc.com/news/SenateSeatSale/. 



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Illinois governor Blagojevich was arrested because of corruption charges. Blagojevich was caught on tape discussing how he will be selling the Senate seat vacated by President elect Obama to the highest bidder.  He said if no one brings an acceptable payment for the seat, he will keep it for himself so he can run for presidency in 2016. How can this man think he can get away with committing such crimes?  It boggles the mind how someone with so much greed, self delusion and moral turpitude was...

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