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Press Room
Even in this day of online everything, sometimes it's a great pleasure to browse through a newspaper. But whether you subscribe to the physical paper or browse the web sites, there is no substitute for variety of coverage. Deer Park Neighbors is very proud of the relationships we are building with all these publications. We won't pretend that all of these sites are easy to navigate — that's why God created home delivery. Please email us to suggest your favorite news sites for local information. NOTE: Different sites have different expirations on their posted news, so if a link is no longer active, contact the publication for a reprint or visit the public library.
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The news is yours responsibility--to access and to contribute.
- Subscribe to and contribute to local coverage
- Use the social networking sites to ask questions and spread news
- Insist on ever-increasing range of communications from local government agencies.
- See our Press Room page for more ideas.
- Join the village community bulletin board, Connect-CTY; you can change your subscription at any time--bulletin board is a bit of a misnomer; you can receive news, but not submit stories
- To submit news and photos, please see our Press Room page for local and topical opportunities or send it all here to Deer Park Neighbors.
- Read your local papers; supporting print subscriptions helps underwrite local journalists--and COMMENT and SUBMIT LETTERS TO THE EDITORS.
- Attend or watch the broadcasts of village meetings local meetings.
- Ask the Village to post the Agenda Packet materials in true Acrobat form--that means searchable by web robots. Establish a sensible naming convention so that documents fall into an organized index automatically, while the search function can identify words or phrases with each document. (Today, the agenda documents are scanned--that is turned into images instead of retaining text properties and are invisible to online researchers.
- Ask the Village of Deer Park post their meeting audio records. This is nothing more than a 50meg or so link. See an example here. Remember you can make a Freedom of Information Request for these recordings and or any other village documents; simply fill out the FOIA form and drop off a blank CD/DVD labeled with your name, phone number and the date(s) of the meeting(s) requested.
- Require the Village Clerk to post DRAFT MINUTES to the Trustees within 5 days of the meeting; once approved, minutes should be posted to village web site next morning.
- Budget $1,000 for the Village to purchace a digital video cam, boundary microphone, trip and software for an unmanned recording of the proceedings. We also need to have the AV system upgraded or replaced so that the audience can hear the proceedings. With a volunteer's camera and free/cheap software to break it into 2gb/10 min segments (whichever is less) and post to YouTube. Then solicit to make the minimal changes required to the entire recording to meet the specifications of Comcast. For an example of how, as wellas BACOG, Ela Township, Lake County meetings, or at the very least, access minutes, audio recordings and video tapes online
Speaking of taxes, it’s easy to complain about Lake County taxes, but see this interesting graphic prepared by Lake County to show you where the taxes actually go:
If you cannot see the above graphic, click on:
PioneerLocal, 11/09/09: “Time to pay attention, taxpayers ” Full editorial
Chicago Tribune, “Database: Find your school report card”
11/9/09 “The village had a cash balance of $1.87 million on April 30, according to finance documents in the Oct. 19 Village Board packet. Deer Park budgeted a $630,000 deficit this year, including a $510,000 loss on the general fund, a $81,000 deficit in the parks fund, and a $39,000 deficit on the Vehe Barn operation fund, according to village documents.” Full story
IN THE NEWS ON CN
“Barrington and Aurora officials Wednesday met separately with new Surface Transportation Board Chairman Dan Elliott, a day after he toured the EJ&E rail line with representatives of its new owner, Canadian National.” Full story
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=334255
DEER PARK FEATURED IN QUINTESSENTIAL BARRINGTON
Great coverage in a profile on Village President Robert Kellermann, with a great photo by Trustee Keith Olson. This magazine should have arrived in your mailbox yesterday, or see the link below.
http://quintessentialbarrington.com/pdf/nd09-village-views.pdf
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HOW TO POST RESPONSE
TO ONLINE NEWS:
First, you go to the individual story at a news site or blog; next to or below the story, there is usually a link to “comment” or “post,” or something like that. You click on that link to proceed, at which point you will be asked to provide some personal information, and create a password for yourself. We are of the opinion that your personal information will be safe at recognized entities—the Sun Times News Group, Chicago Tribune, etc. (The procedure is similar for most legitimate “blogs.”)
Why do they ask for personal information? This is a software feature that helps distinguish human visitors from “robot” visitors that might spam or overload a web site. (Yeah, we know…remember just talking on the old front porch!) When you revisit that site in the future, you “log in” immediately or at the point that you make your comments.
One more hint: Write your comments in a text program, then copy and paste them into the comments portion of the web site. This will save a lot of time, as web site fields can be very slow to fill with text.
Read Local Publications Online
Daily Herald Click >>HERE to see how to "Select Your Community" at their web site.
Pioneer Press Click >>HERE to see how to navigate to Barrington Review; process is the same to go to Lake Zurich Courier-News
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