Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Sentinel Technologies and Flexco were ranked eighth and 11th, respectively, for mid-size companies.
Two Downers Grove companies have been named in the Chicago Tribune's annual list of top 100 workplaces in the Chicago area. IT service provider Sentinel Technologies, 2550 Warrenville Road, was ranked the 8th best workplace among mid-size companies in Chicago. Founded in 1982, the company employs 260 people, and offers a full range of services for many of today's technology leaders, according to the Tribune. One surveyed employee said of Sentinel, "I feel part of a family as much as a world class organization. Sentinel provides strong work/life balance as well as strong job stability with fair compensation." Flexco, 2525 Wisconsin Ave., was ranked 11th among mid-size companies. The company, which was also ranked in 2010, is a leading …
Friday, July 6, 2012
Though he's better than John Kass (but who isn't?), Tribune columnist John Keilman got it all wrong when he said the self-esteem glut is more imagined than real.
So I stared in stunned silence as I read page two of the June 26 Chicago Tribune. As if John Kass and his coma-inducing compositions weren’t bad enough, now they’re rotating other columnists though that space on his off days. Of course, my first thought was, how the heck can you tell he’s taking a day off? Just run an empty space and people will think they read his column anyway. So I was grateful for the respite until I read that hard-hitting page 2 piece on one reporter’s obsession with her front lawn. And Robert McCormick and Mike Royko are spinning in their graves as we speak. But the column that really frosted my cookies was the aforementioned piece by John Keilman, who ignored his New Age-inspired higher self when he waded in on the …
Friday, November 25, 2011
Am I the only one with a keen perception of the obvious?
I’ve gotta stop reading that Chicago Tribune op-ed page because it’s making me crazy. There was a time when, of the five newspapers arriving daily on my driveway, the Trib would be the first freed from its overstretched plastic prison. Now the Sun-Times is No. 1. And here’s one of the reasons for that top-five shift. In a Nov. 18 editorial, the Tribune tackled the touchy topic of Internet sales tax by coming out in support of U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin’s “Marketplace Fairness Act,” which mandates attaching sales tax to every Internet purchase. Considering individual states’ prior boondoggle-ish attempts to collect that tariff, the editorial did manage to get one thing right. Durbin’s streamlined bill is head and shoulders above anything …
Friday, September 9, 2011
And despite the editor's Armageddon headline here, the sky isn't falling. The real culprit isn't kids or teachers; it's No Child Left Behind.
In yet another of their “the sky is falling” school pieces, the Aug. 31 Chicago Tribune headline blared “Public H.S. grads struggle at college”! The report went on to describe how Chicago-area students who generally got B's in high school weren’t faring nearly as well at Illinois state universities. To prove their point, the newspaper included all sorts of tables showing the disparity between high school and college grades. Since they only included the best and worst cases, I pulled out the data for all of our Patchland high schools and sorted it by the best state college grade point average to the lowest: Source: Chicago Tribune I have to admit, in a hermetically sealed statistical world, these numbers are quite fascinating. Hinsdale …
Jeff Ward
3:44 pm on Sunday, July 8, 2012
Kent, Even I have to admit that many of the things you said about Mr. Kass are true. It's just that I like to have some fun with folks who take themselves far too seriously. Actually, he gets into trouble when he tries to be Mike Royko. He just can't do it and it send the entire column spinning into a death spiral. Even though I agree with his general point, the whole "hopium" thing just isn't … more ›