James Fuller
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Kane County Board has trump card in budget cut talksApr 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Kane County Board elected officials may have taken a step this week toward giving themselves the ultimate trump card over any department head, elected or otherwise, who ...
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Was there a failure to communicate in St. Charles District 303?Apr 08, 2009 11:00 pm - It was all about communication both before and after St. Charles Unit District 303's referendum flopped. Superintendent Don Schlomann knew it Tuesday night. Leading refe...
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Kane County considers furloughs to avoid layoffsApr 08, 2009 11:00 pm - The word "furlough" is about to enter the lexicon of Kane County government and, likely, government employee paychecks shortly thereafter. But even that might not be eno...
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DeWitte wins another term as St. Charles mayorApr 07, 2009 11:00 pm - The final tallies weren't in, but the writing was on the wall as soon as the first votes trickled in. By the time challenger Jotham Stein called incumbent St. Charles Ma...
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St. Charles voters unkind to tax hike requestsApr 07, 2009 11:00 pm - Whether it's life and death or just to build new schools, now is simply not the time to ask for more money. That seemed to be the message behind the rejection of both S...
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Kane County to detail potential job losses of $3.8 mil budget cutApr 06, 2009 11:00 pm - Kane County's union employees will soon have a better idea how many of them might be unemployed come the beginning of May. At the county's executive committee meeting We...
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Kane Co. job coaches get to keep their jobs for nowApr 01, 2009 11:00 pm - Sometimes the best coaching when facing a possible layoff involves getting more money. The 32 Illinois workNet Center employees facing a layoff the past couple weeks ha...
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Tough economy forces Rex's Cork and Fork to closeApr 01, 2009 11:00 pm - Back in the days when the Hula Hoop was young, Rex's Drive-In was the place to be on what was then the eastern frontier of St. Charles. The institution eventually chang...
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Kane County layoffs could be result of new cutsApr 01, 2009 11:00 pm - Kane County government employees might be the next workers to join the ranks of the unemployed as officials will now turn to the payroll to balance a budget that's worse...
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What's next for Kane Co. jail site?Mar 31, 2009 11:00 pm - One man's trash could be another man's treasure at the site of the old Kane County jail and youth center on Fabyan Parkway. It's just a question of whether that treasure...