The Noblest Consultant of them All
Trustee Galen Gockel says William Shakespeare is his personal consultant on development. During a recent board meeting, he orated some lines from Julius Caeser to justify his vote on opening Marion Street to traffic.
Some might disagree with using poet-playwrights as development consultants. They don’t know anything about zoning variance, setbacks, mixed use development, R2, C1 [...]
Beye Hop
Who needs to go to Vail, Colorado or Stowe, Vermont? Some enterprising Oak Park kids transformed their front porch on N. Harvey into a snowboard run.
I’m sure the postal carriers love it.
Next year, maybe they’ll install a chair lift.
Going Alpinistic in Oak Park
I was eating a bowl of oatmeal when I read in the Wednesday Journal that Oak Park had 43 cases of gonorrhea in 2004.
“Ewwwwwww!†I gacked. I tried to continue eating my oatmeal, but it suddenly had lost its downhome bonhomie flavor and tasted like bonnyclabbered gook. I can say without question that anyone who [...]