Lake County (IL) Podcast: Recent Episodes

W. Guy Finley

News, reviews, commentary and diatribes on all issues concerning Lake County, Illinois.

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I wanted to try out something new so I figured this neglected blog was as good as anyplace to do it. So, welcome to the blog on a new platform, Ghost.

It seems to be fast as heck running on node.js so I'm going to kick the tires and

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There’s no doubt whatsoever that AirPrint is very cool – hook up a printer to a network and your Mac or iOS device will quickly and easily find it and add it so you can print away. Easy and super for iOS devices especially. The problem is when you want

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For my homies.

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I looked in horror at some pictures from the latest USC home game. As an alumnus of TGMBITHOTU (aka the USC Trojan Marching Band) we’ve long cried about some of  our greatest traditions that have been fouled over the years by the march of political correctness. The “Old Band”

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I haven’t always been Father’s Day’s biggest fan. My grandmother suffered a massive fatal heart attack on her way to see us on Father’s Day 1983 and the holiday was tainted for the next 14 years. My son was born on Father’s Day 1997 and

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Add another state to the list open to Gay Marriage as a federal judge struck down Wisconsin’s ban today. When the outcome is what really matters I shouldn’t care how, but I do.

I generally like Scott Walker’s policies but I am not happy many in the

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As a society, we’ve come to just plain ignore mental illness. For many years it’s been the stigma of mental illness that has caused it to be ignored and not talked about. However, even in earlier times with the stigma there were some measures in place to deal

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I hate cats. I don’t like cats – I never really have. At least that’s what I tell everyone anyway. This position is born from long-suffered allergies that made life near them impossible. When I got forced into a living situation with a pair of them ten years ago

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My iPad 3 and Zagg Folio have been keeping my business life sorted the past couple of years but it was time for a change after I cracked my screen that happened because of the old Folio’s design. My new combo bests the old one is every conceivable way.

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My blog has been besieged by spammers for weeks. You haven’t seen this since they haven’t been able to get past registration. Still, getting tons of registrations every day has been annoying to me.

So, I’ve converted the comments system to Disqus which is pretty ubiquitous now.

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“What?” you may say. “There’s no such thing as rear fog lamps!!”

Oh, my noble reader, they do exist. Those of us who have owned a European car, and cared to read the owner’s manual (rather elite company) know of this feature called the rear fog lamp. These

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Kim Kearby’s family will be holding a visitation followed by remarks on Friday, September 27th at Justens Funeral Home in Round Lake. Further information can be found on Justen’s website.

The Daily Herald was kind enough to publish a piece on Kim today as well, you can view

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This morning I learned of the untimely passing of Kim Kearby last evening. As of this writing I’m not aware of the circumstances, my prayers go out to Jeanne and the Kirby Family for the loss of a truly special man.

Kim first and foremost loved the kids of

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Seems everything has been installed and PM&L is ready to go with online ticketing shortly. It was great working on this project and seeing it come to fruition after a long period of time pushing for it.

I did a report to evaluate the options and lay out

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Legislative Committee Chair Tom Hausman is back from a Hayward trip and advised me the Executive Board has always been understood to be all the officers, the vice presidents, treasurer and both secretaries. I’ve updated my proposed change to reflect that.