Village Voices - We don't write papers, we build scrapbooks

Residents of Stephenson County would have been stunned if they were in attendance to watch the first official meeting of the recently seated County Board. Not because of the typical in-fighting, fireworks, or petty attacks thrown out between the partisan small town politicians, but because of the lack there of.

I mean, this is the Stephenson County, the entity that gave rise to the Dangerous Eight, and saw some of the most moronic legislation in the history of man. (Remember the law passed “temporarily” that allowed everyone the ability to own a tank, machine gun, or Uzi – and also l...