February 18th, 2008
It occurs to me that we are having another monstrous pothole season, which everyone enjoys cursing and crying and carping about. They are especially bad this year, all around the Rockford area and the stateline. I was, however, in southern and central Wisconsin over the past five days covering presidential candidates, and the potholes weren’t quite so bad.
This is nothing new; I’ve noticed for years that whenever my car hits Wisconsin pavement, the ride gets smoother. Anybody have similar experiences, or am I just imagining better roads in Wisconsin?
February 18th, 2008
U.S. Sen Dick Durbin, D-IL comes to Rockford and Belvidere Tuesday. He’ll stop at Aldeen Park where he’ll inspect the “Alpine dam,” then take a look at the flood-damage area in southeast Rockford. Durbin will also go to City e a signing ceremony for the Keith Creek-Alpine Dam Risk Management Feasibility Study.
That’s not all. The Senate Majority Whip (second in command in the Senate) will tour the Chrysler plant in Belvidere, meet with black leaders at Booker Washington Center, take questions from children at Martin Luther King School, then tour the University of Illinois School of Rural Medicine.
In between stops I hope to grab a few minutes of the senator’s time to talk about the presidential race (he’s a key supporter of Barack Obama) and about his tough talk to freight railroads UP and CN, about operating Amtrak trains on time.
