Joe Hosey

I feel I have to clear up some misinformation that may or may not have been making its way around lately.

Evans almost sounded like disgraced slugger Mark McGwire who, when testifying before congress about steroids, said, “Well, sir, I’m not here to talk about the past. I’m here to talk about the positive and not the negative about this issue.”

Yes, it only makes sense to appease the ones who are investing tens of thousands of dollars in your campaign committee instead of a bunch of farmers who probably don’t even live in the city and can’t vote for you anyway.

To round out his busy Monday, Elward had the case of former Joliet City Councilman Duck Dickinson on his schedule.

But then Capparelli started doing things that maybe a city manager with some experience in city managing would have thought better of.

But Esqueda does live in Kendall County and now a prosecutor there is trying to stop anyone from calling him a whistleblower during his criminal trial.

It would have been great if Abudayyeh called back, but we understand.

Yes, Glasgow bravely called those two men cowards while they were locked away and headed to prison.

The police report also said Dickinson had heard that “O’Dekirk claimed to have nude photos” of him, but that part must have been OK to Elward, or at the very least didn’t rise to his idea of criminal liability.

Over the course of time, the building will come down on its own, and with the help of vandals, who are already lending a hand, it will happen all the faster.

Any of the votes he’s cast as a trustee don’t count anymore, sort of like Louisville’s 2013 basketball championship or Medina Spirit’s win in the Kentucky Derby last year.

There may have been other Joliet mayors who went around crashing into cars and manhandling people in the street, then letting the taxpayers foot the bill for them, but none come to mind.

Not only is his petition for post-conviction relief somewhat insincere at best, it doesn’t make much sense and even contradicts itself.

As bad as it may be to scream obscenities at someone, it can’t be worse than confronting and roughing up another person.

Sure, you can take your cellphone into the courthouse starting Monday, and even talk on it in “common areas of Court Facilities, such as lobbies and hallways,” but don’t think you’ll be on the same footing as the special people if you run afoul of the law.

That would almost be like lumping everybody on the city council together, to question the character of one because of the actions of another.

Holly was also on the verge of major milestones when she lost her life.

Yes, in Joliet, they always come together, especially on the city council.

Odds are none of the trucks will have bows either.

Then again, once the city council votes to pay Bays rent to house the engineering staff, he might as well have gotten the parking deck for free after just three years.

To be fair, he doesn’t just blame his court-appointed attorney, Lucas Liefer. In both his Randolph and Will County petitions, for example, he also complains about a certain movie.

No matter how you feel about NorthPoint, whether you’re for or against them building an obscenely massive industrial complex that no one living near its proposed site seems to want, it doesn’t mean everything they’re up to is evil.

On the other hand, instead of reflecting on positive developments you enjoyed over the course of the last year, you might be thankful for things that didn’t happen.

The city may as well mandate that every gas station begin selling marijuana as well, regardless of how close they might be to houses, or even schools or churches.

There are a lot of other things for the attorney general to worry about besides Joliet, of course.

So much for never talking about what happens in executive session.

After all, it’s hard to imagine that any of these costumes, from the Bad Habit Nun to Sergeant Short Pants, are made here in America.

“The area wasn’t cleared to my standards, so I will be back,” she said.

It was almost like that time he announced he was pulling the police department out of the Tri-County Auto Theft Task Force before realizing that, no, he couldn’t do that either.

After all, O’Dekirk might be somewhat grateful Esqueda leaked the video when he did.

Another letter from the mayor might be in order.

You might even say he was aided and abetted in keeping the alley open.

It's taken him 14 years, but Vaughn has since come up with another, possibly less ridiculous version of what happened in the SUV.

Now, this new investigation Raoul announced the other day is supposed to take a look at “possible patterns or practices of unconstitutional or unlawful policing by the Joliet Police Department,” which sounds like it could be pretty serious.

The shuttered water park would be great for synchronized swimming and regular swimming and diving and water polo, as long as there aren’t too many semitrailers parked in the lot and the athletes are able to get into the facility.

This time, they got the Brandon Road bridge fixed in a matter of days, but let’s see how long this lasts.

If O’Dekirk’s right, that there is in fact a war on the police, then it seems impossible that the conflict is underway anywhere within the boundaries of Will County.

Now a block party, on its face, may not sound particularly terrible. In fact, the one planned for the prison looked like it might even have been quite a bit of fun.

There’s no reason to doubt the board holds up its end as far as hiring and promoting go, but with disciplinary hearings, they have been somewhat less than active.

If the historical society doesn’t have the resources to take care of the Casseday mansion, they should give it to somebody who does.

You might think grabbing another man by the collar and dragging him off just because he doesn’t do what he’s told would be against the law, but you would be wrong.

No, there’s nothing the police or politicians can do about fireworks, except legalize and tax them to pay for our water.

This American Rescue Plan money couldn’t have come at a better time, at least as far as the Old Joliet Prison goes.

“While we do not condone O’Dekirk’s poor judgment in the incident, his actions do not rise to criminal liability,” Elward said in his letter to Kennedy, although he failed to elaborate on what exactly he does not condone.

And once the prosecutor’s not special, who can say how things might play out?

That doesn’t seem to be a very back having thing for someone to do at all.

At any rate, Quillman wants to blame Jones, but no matter whose fault it was, she now faced the dilemma of turning Joliet into the Prison City of Steel, Stone, Champions, and Gas Station Gambling and Alcohol Sales.

Regardless, in a couple days this will all be a year ago and nothing’s been done.

So history was preserved, but at what price?