In early 2016, at the age of 63, I started losing central vision in my left eye. Through the guidance of medical experts and better health habits, my eye has returned to normal without expensive long-term treatments. The problem In 2016 I started having trouble reading the morning newspapers. So I went to my optometrist, […]
Joe McMenamin
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Alderman Joe McMenamin responds
Last week Larry Golden wrote a GUESTWORK column concerning discrimination in the composition of Springfield boards and commissions and concluded that not much has changed with “power and decision making” since the 1986 Voting Rights lawsuit of which he was a significant participant. See “Boards and commissions matter,” July 16, at illinoistimes.com. But consider: -In […]
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Aldermen and big money
When Springfield City Council members repeatedly accept large campaign contributions from the same serial donors year after year, they invariably compromise their impartiality and subordinate the general interest to special interests. Last month, several serial givers held a “thank you” event for a quorum of aldermen. The event was exceptional in its boldness, notoriety and […]
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Lesson of the city’s NAPA contract
For two years the Springfield city council worked hand in hand with Mayor Mike Houston and budget director William McCarty to consolidate four city maintenance garages – police, fire, public works and CWLP – into one. But this cooperation started to break down on March 4, when the Houston administration filed a peculiar ordinance to […]
