From Judi Hinton - My favorite business model is Apple. When Apple was young and struggling they could have chased after the almighty Microsoft dollar, but Steve Jobs seemingly operated from a place of prosperity. My interpretation of “operating from a sense of prosperity goes something like this….. one who has a sense of prosperity...
Letter to the Editor – from Heidi Vollmuth WINFIELD 9-1-1: Part 2 A lot has been said about the topic of this efficiency study of the Winfield Police Department and its potential disbandment. This post is less about what has been said and more about what has not been stated. If we...
Letter to the Editor – from Heidi Vollmuth WINFIELD 9-1-1 The Village Board has on their Committee of the Whole an item to hire a consultant to “review the efficiencies” of the Winfield Police Department. They want to spend $32,000 to find out exactly what? The Village Board has a history...
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events, Small minds discuss people.” - Eleanor Roosevelt Great minds discuss ideas and that is the basis for 411. Yet daily, the comments sections and even some of the stories discuss people and events. You can label them WU, Steve, Stan, or for that matter Team Jacob...
At last Thursday’s village board meeting, issues were presented that seemed insurmountable and overwhelming (emerald ash borer and the riverwalk). These issues are causing the village board to become stagnant and not able to move forward and in some situations, may be causing regress. So how can we get beyond these insurmountable challenges and...
I-want to thank Tim Allen and Tony Reyes for holding a meeting this past Thursday July 7th at Village Hall and allowing me to speak. I introduced myself and explained that I had suffered a brain injury and needed to read my statement because of the rehab I have been going through. Steve Romanelli...
Letter to the Editor: Our community is now faced with significant and challenging decisions. The difficulty for all of us is to recognize the pitfalls of continuing business as usual. We need to get beyond old myths and old ways to a whole new approach. We need to break the interest group Winfield United’s...
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