No cuts to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources!

IDNR is threatened. Click here for an article on the topic. I contacted my representatives. Don’t really feel like getting any more political on here beyond sharing that.

Tags: Blagojevich, budget cuts, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Elgin, forests, IDNR, IL, Illinois, nature, policy, politics
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Did you vote?

I did.

My first time using computerized voting! It was nice. Basically like using an atm, but after you make your choice it prints it onto a little receipt that you double-check before pushing “Cast my vote” for the last time.

So I was afraid that I couldn’t vote because I chose not to register with a party this time around, and I found a few articles online that said you could only vote in the primaries if you were registered with a party. THEN I found this article in the Kane County Chronicle that says in Illinois you pick the party whose primary you want to vote in right there at the polling place.

I went to the Kane County Clerk website to find out which local elections were going on and who was running (Click “candidates”). A the voting place I picked the Democrat ticket and voted for president, US representative, and County Board Member. I did not vote for a delegate because I never took the time to research the delegates, and honestly I don’t fully understand what they do any how.

Now that I’m out of grad school and actually have free time, I’m hoping to become more knowledgeable about politics. In the past I only paid attention to president and aldermanic (Chicago) races. Now I’m hoping to learn more about state and county level elected officials.

Tags: Barack Obama, Cristina Castro, democrat, Elgin, Hilary Clinton, Illinois, Jesus de la Isla, John Laesch, Jotham Stein, Kane County, local politics, politics, president, presidential race, primaries, republican, Richard Durbin, Super Duper Tuesday, super Tuesday, US, USA
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