Good morning, Carpentersville!

It’ll be another chilly start to the morning, with temps in the low 40s; expected to rise into the low 60s by afternoon with sunny skies.

Tonight there is a meeting of the the Park Committee at 7pm in the Conference Room across from the Board Room at Village Hall. They are still looking to fill an open position, so attend the meeting, submit your application to Village President Bill Sarto and work with the Parks Committee to help beautify Carpentersville, plan festivals and parades, etc…

Some who read my posting over the weekend that the Courier-News declined to publish a letter to editor of Audit & Finance Commission member, Nate Spain, (noting that the Daily Herald did publish an edited version of the letter) reported that their own calls to the Speak Out line that were critical of the handling of the domestic battery conviction of Paul Humpfer also were not published.

In the past I had heard that the Courier-News had a history of furthering their editorial agenda by not publishing Speak-Outs and Letters that might contradict that agenda.  In this case, it seems that there is an attempt to keep the criticism at a minimum level to make it appear as though there isn’t more public opinion against Humpfer.

In fact, from the looks of some of the Speak-Out comments in the Courier, and comments elsewhere, both the Courier and the Daily Herald have done a good job of keeping the real story from the people … so that they aren’t really sure what the issue is here — that a Carpentersville Village Trustee, Paul Humpfer, was found guilty of attacking his wife with a baseball bat.

Those who have read either of these papers for any length of time, however, know that both often inject a healthy dose of bias into the reporting of most news.  Their editorials don’t appear only in the editorial page.