Our towns: October 2007 Archives

We’re not quite sure what they have in mind for a business model, but the people who run the famed Family Piano Company store on S. Genesee in downtown Waukegan are giving it a go with new businesses. Swami loves ragtime.

Here’s a question Swami gets all the time about “Talk of the County.”. “How many people have noticed that you will write something only to have the people in charge of the 'talk' to edit or eliminate something you said? … The whole object of the 'talk' is to let us voice OUR opinions not for you to edit what we say. How about printing what we say. It is called ‘freedom of speech’.”

Swami, are you in favor of Lake County getting the equestrian event for the 2016 Olympics? It’s a great deal for us, but I haven’t heard much support for it, only critics.

Swami is worried about Gurnee. Apparently, the First Amendment to the Constitution has been rendered null and void there. No free speech. The mayor says she just did what her lawyer said to do.

Oh, the wicked, tortured plots and plans being hatched in the realms of that mighty but evil Camelot on the hill called Gurnee. And to think, the world revolves around a lousy junkyard. Whadup, oh Swami?

Swami, have you seen the new Google maps system that allows people to look right at your house? Isn’t this an invasion of privacy? Help me, oh wise one. Signed: Fearful of the spies

Swami, what’s the deal with the student bringing the noose to school at Warren High? What does it mean? Is the school rife with racial animosity?