Group to meet with the mayor, city officials next week over their concerns By Bob Seidenberg Members of the Friends of the Evanston Farmers Market (FEFM) are scheduled to meet with city officials next week to discuss concerns they have about a recently issued consultants’ report that called for a move of the market to…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston police scrambled to fill 12-hour shifts, making 47 hire backs of officers last month, leading up to an Aug. 4 announcement that the Department’s Community Policing Unit (CPU) would be shifted to patrol in order to address a severe staff shortage. The Department announced in the release that five members, four officers…
By Bob Seidenberg Evanston elected officials could be subject to official misconduct charges for inappropriate behavior under a recommendation from the City Council’s Rules Committee Aug. 1 that will be moved to the full Council for action. Former Second Ward Alderperson Peter Braithwaite made the referral in March, proposing amendments to the City’s Code of…
Flavored cigars popularity with young people helped ignite Council member Eleanor Revelle’s call for a ban on all flavored tobacco product sales By Bob Seidenberg Snuffed out once, an Evanston City Council member has proposed for a second time that the city adopt a comprehensive ban on the sale of all flavored tobacco products within…
News Release Residents of Evanston and Wilmette join the Most Livable City Association in lawsuit against the City of Evanston’s commercial rezoning of Northwestern’s new football stadium. Evanston, Ill. – The Most Livable City Association (MLCA), a non-profit focused on quality of life for all communities in and aroundEvanston and advocating for accountability in…
By Bob Seidenberg rseiden914@gmail.com Evanston City Council members are expected to debate and possibly approve a new leaf blower policy at their meeting November 8 that calls for transitioning from gas-powered to electric-powered blowers. The ordinance amends the time and days when leaf blowers are permitted to be used, sets a new fine structure, establishes…
By Bob Seidenberg Citizens would once again be given a role deciding ethics violations brought against public officials, based on a revised staff proposal that was backed by the City Council’s Rules Committee at their Sept. 7 meeting. Staff had previously recommended that the citizens Ethics Board be eliminated, and decision-making placed in the hands…
By Bob Seidenberg Members of the city’s Climate Action Resilience Plan task force don’t believe environmental concerns should be limited to one area of the new Comprehensive General Plan — a preliminary draft of which is to due to go to the council in a few weeks. Instead “of having the environment as just a…
By Bob Seidenberg Some longtime residents living east of Ridge Avenue in Evanston’s Fifth Ward brought concerns about that area’s exclusion from the attendance boundaries of School District 65’s new school into a discussion of new political boundaries for the city. At the city’s Redistricting Committee meeting Jan. 26, longtime resident Jane Evans told…