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February 9, 2021
This is how Nashville charts success, this is how many times you heard this guy pre racial slur. He in affect has been canceled. I have […]
December 7, 2019
Remembering Those Who Served I was born a sheet metal contractors son—I think I was his later in life attempt at a son, and he got […]
October 11, 2019
First Down Batavia 50 years is a crazy long time but that’s how long Rudy Dubis has been calling Batavia High school basketball and football games! […]
September 11, 2019
Have you forgotten? Today marks 18 years since the murders of 911—I say murders because that’s what it was. In those 18 years that have passed, […]
August 31, 2019
Friday Night Lights Tonight’s the night Friday night football starts in the Prairie state and across the country players are ready for the big game, some […]
August 25, 2019
Living the American Dream I was at a wedding yesterday in Chicago; it was a beautiful service on top of the Wyndham Hotel—very classy. But as […]
August 18, 2019
Time to Let the Cowgirls in… I will start by saying I love, Brandi Carlile. But after reading this article in Rolling Stone Magazine about her […]
May 10, 2019
I’m No Stranger to the Rain Thirty years ago today, I was in my parents garage working on my car when a guy named JD Spangler […]
April 25, 2019
Blue Sky & Sunshine I hate bad news, but who doesn’t. My friend, the legendary Brant Miller, has a saying that we use as our approach […]
April 16, 2019
The Girls of Spring It’s been a cold start to spring in Chicagoland; we just came out of one of the coldest Marches on record. Up […]
April 16, 2019
Eye of the “Tiger” What a Sunday that was! The past few days of working on the lawn and kids baseball games came to a screeching […]
April 10, 2019
Remembering Earl Thomas Conley When I was a kid in Junior high, I would work weekends and summers at my dad’s sheet metal shop. My love […]
April 7, 2019
“That ain’t Country” “That ain’t country” is one of my favorite phrases. I wonder where we, as a collective group of music lovers get the “cred” […]
April 10, 2019
Remembering Earl Thomas Conley When I was a kid in Junior high, I would work weekends and summers at my dad’s sheet metal shop. My love […]
April 16, 2019
The Girls of Spring It’s been a cold start to spring in Chicagoland; we just came out of one of the coldest Marches on record. Up […]
May 10, 2019
I’m No Stranger to the Rain Thirty years ago today, I was in my parents garage working on my car when a guy named JD Spangler […]
August 31, 2019
Friday Night Lights Tonight’s the night Friday night football starts in the Prairie state and across the country players are ready for the big game, some […]