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Journal & Topics is recommending a yes vote on Niles’ term-limit referendum. I think that’s bad advice. The proposal gives trustees a longer limit and a fresh clock, and the newspaper has not given residents a good enough reason to support either change. We were just asked about longer terms in March. The village’s April…
Niles voters rejected a 20-year term-limit proposal in March. This November, they are being asked to consider a different proposal establishing a prospective 16-year limit for Village Trustees. Ballot questions are not always easy to understand. Sometimes a few words can make a big difference in what voters are actually being asked to approve. That…
After Case # fields were blank in 93.4% of June records and 88.4% of July records, the blank rate fell to 8.2% in August. Hundreds of later records contained entries such as “NA,” “1,” “PCS” and “zz,” whose meanings are not established by the records produced by Niles. A deeper Niles Connect review of 5,719…
Update, September 2, 2026: Additional analysis of the records found that some Flock searches with a blank Case # field contained what appear to be case numbers in the separate Reason field. The original analysis correctly found that 1,781 of 5,719 records, or 31.1%, had a blank Case # field. That figure should not be…
