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		<title>Wish Me Luck</title>
		<link>http://winfield411.com/magazine/2012/02/22/wish-me-luck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[*** I unfortunately got the word back in from the State that while they view Stan&#8217;s rag as a political tabloid they still feel that it qualifies as a &#8220;news&#8221; paper. I will not be going to the city to argue my case. It will be dismissed.  Kudos to the state for getting the case heard so quickly. You can read the recommendation from the state here: Zegel-vs-Allen (PDF) It&#8217;s only 5 pages long. Today is the ruling from the State Board of Elections regarding whether Zegel and his rag should be registered as a political committee. I have to be in the city at 9:00 and I am 32nd on the agenda. I hope this goes quickly. I plan to do some &#8220;Live Blogging&#8221; if anything interesting is going on. My guess is that the whole thing will be pretty dry and uninteresting. I can tell you though that if what I showed the state doesn&#8217;t result in Zegel and the Register having to register as a political committee then nothing will. Some of the most compelling evidence: Zegel admitted that his paper is only going to registered voters. Real free newspapers go to everyone. Zegel admitted his cat is writing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random News</title>
		<link>http://winfield411.com/magazine/2012/02/21/random-news-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Till the cows come home: DuPage county considers the fate of the DuPage County Fair. Duck Season! -or- Coopers Hawk flies the coop:  Hungry hawks try snacking on (un)lucky ducks at Cosley Zoo. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones: Playing a gig at North Central College on March 3 Worst Story Ever: Thanks DH for this waste of electrons. In a nutshell, &#8220;Something happened today in Winfield. It was all very tragic. News eventually.&#8221; Don&#8217;t forget, this Friday is the Knights of Columbus Lenten Fish Fry. Come on down and have a great meal at St. John&#8217;s church. All proceeds go to Knights charities. 5:00-7:00 PM. Sherman, Set the Way-Back Machine: King Kevy keeps the past alive over at the Winfieldier blog.]]></description>
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		<title>Strategy, Municipal Finance &amp; Chess</title>
		<link>http://winfield411.com/magazine/2012/02/21/lessons-in-strategy-from-the-chess-board/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid my father introduced me to the game of chess. Not knowing a thing about strategy, my method of playing the game was to take one piece and chase my opponent around the board. When that piece was captured I would move on to my second favorite piece, and so on. It didn&#8217;t work very well. Ultimately I learned that each of the pieces have their own strengths and weaknesses and they all need to be used together. In the past couple of days we have had a discussion about referendums -vs- tax levies and it got me thinking about the tools available to Winfield to accomplish goals. The tools all have strengths and weaknesses and they are similar to pieces on a chess board. They are best used together to accomplish goals. Meet the pieces: Free Cash Flow &#8211; Free Cash flow is the most powerful player. She is the queen of the chess board and can be used to attack problems from any angle. Free Cash flow can be leveraged into cash with a bond. It can be used instantly with a simple vote. It&#8217;s also the most vulnerable player with everybody needing a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Districting: Feature, Not a Bug</title>
		<link>http://winfield411.com/magazine/2012/02/20/districting-feature-not-a-bug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I work in the software industry and we have an often used saying, &#8220;That&#8217;s a feature, not a bug.&#8221; It means that something you don&#8217;t like about the software you are using is actually helping you rather than hurting you and it was placed there intentionally. For instance, this weekend one commenter suggested that the best argument that Winfield United had against districting was that every citizen gets to vote for every trustee, every four years. This was seen as more valuable than getting to vote for one trustee every four years in a districted village. The idea was there were more opportunities to &#8220;throw the scoundrels out&#8221;. I understand and respect the argument. I also respectfully disagree. Our village elections could conceivably (and has) caused 50% of the trustees to be freshman every two years. The result of this turnover has been chaos in Winfield&#8217;s vision of itself. Pre 1999 Winfield United&#8217;s precursor &#8220;Wooded Winfield&#8221; ran Winfield. Their agenda was one of zero growth and they were very good at achieving their agenda. It was in this time that Winfield lost the corners of County Farm and Roosevelt Road to Wheaton. This has had a devastating effect on Winfield [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zegel &amp; The Election Board</title>
		<link>http://winfield411.com/magazine/2012/02/19/zegel-the-election-board/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As was widely rumored, I was at the State of Illinois Board of Elections on Friday. We had a hearing with one of the agents who&#8217;s job it was to listen to both Stan and I and make a recommendation to the 4 Republicans and 4 Democrats on the Elections Board. The agent told us both that we couldn&#8217;t talk about the meeting because it was preliminary and we couldn&#8217;t release any of the documents that we had received. However, he did say that the next meeting was in the same building this Wednesday February 22nd at 9:00. The Wednesday meeting is public and I can talk about it all I want. I am 32nd on the agenda (PDF). I hope the BOE doesn&#8217;t run their meetings like Winfield does or I will be there for the rest of the year. I can tell you that it is true what Lisa Goodwin said on Friday. In the deposition Zegel did admit that Lionel Katz was not only a contributor to the rag but was also  his pet cat. Kudo&#8217;s to Mr. Zegel for the look on the face of the BOE agent. I will hold that in the memory and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6 New Businesses Opening in Lombard</title>
		<link>http://winfield411.com/magazine/2012/02/19/6-new-businesses-opening-in-lombard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Goodwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a story in the Daily Herald that Lombard handed out a $20,000 grant to entice a deli to open.  Too bad they didn&#8217;t know that Winfield is handing out $50,000!!! Interesting to note that the article concludes by mentioning that six (yes, 6) new businesses are opening in downtown Lombard this spring. Winfield is handing out $50,000 grants, and still can&#8217;t attract new business to Town Center. Does anyone have an update on the Vanilla Sugar Bakery?   Their Facebook page was never re-created, and I&#8217;m not sure if they are back to filling orders or not.]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Support Districting</title>
		<link>http://winfield411.com/magazine/2012/02/18/why-i-support-districting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Blackburn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winfield is a small village of about 10,000 residents.  A quaint, happy community, one would think.  However, Winfield is a study in contrasts and resulting conflicts. Since 1980, Winfield has more than doubled in population.  The village now stretches over four miles in distance from end to end, sits within two different townships and four different school districts, and has different representatives at the county and state levels as well as Congress on account of this distance.  The growth of the hospital is seen both as an asset and a burden. This creates challenges in understanding distinct needs and perspectives.  While I have reservations about the notion of dividing the Village government into districts, the current structure of the Village board is not working.  There were concerns about development interests from the newer parts of town controlling the agenda.  A political organization of residents in the area near Roosevelt Road, collaborated with others in the unincorporated areas south and west of the village to raise money and elect their slate of candidates. The 2011 election brought two new trustees with opposing viewpoints and resulting conflict, but without full representation.  Fredricksburg Farm, Winfield Square, and areas north of Geneva Road – [...]]]></description>
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