For years we have been reading the two main local newspapers and complaining about how often the reporting is just plain shoddy. One of our biggest complaints was the newspapers’ failure to report – on non-unanimous votes – the names of each official and how he/she voted.
So today we want to give a big shout out to The Journal’s Craig Adams, whose article in this week’s edition about the Park Ridge City Council vote on the Executive Office Plaza zoning variance (EOP Condos OKd, November 7) not only identified each alderman and how he voted, but even gave the sequence of the voting – thereby correctly noting that 3rd Ward Ald. Don Bach’s “no” vote, coming after Ald. Rich DiPietro’s deciding fourth “yes” vote had already been cast, was rendered “moot.”
Way to go, Mr. Adams! Thanks for contributing to a better understanding by your readers of exactly what’s going on at City Hall.