Establishing Complete Count Committee Premature
On Tuesday, May 14, the DuPage County Board voted to create an intergovernmental committee called the “DuPage Complete Count Committee”...
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Dawn DeSart
- Apr 23, 2019
- 2 min
Community Conversations: Affordable Housing
Last week, a grandmother reached out to me. She told me her granddaughter, the granddaughter’s two children, and a third baby due at any...
Dawn DeSart
- Apr 8, 2019
- 2 min
A Victory for Inclusiveness
Last month in my blog, I wrote about invocations at the DuPage County Board meetings. To recap, at the December 11, 2018 DuPage County...
Dawn DeSart
- Mar 25, 2019
- 2 min
DuPage County Board Okays Funds to Improve Water Systems Infrastructure
Our country’s roads, bridges, and transit systems are all in dire need of infrastructure upgrades and overhauls. Some experts argue they...
Dawn DeSart
- Mar 4, 2019
- 6 min
Invocations Have No Place in Government
I am a Christian. I’m a Lutheran. You can find me at church just about every Saturday night, Alleluia! in southern Naperville, where I’ve...
Dawn DeSart
- Feb 6, 2019
- 4 min
Human Trafficking in DuPage County?
During the past several weeks, I have visited a domestic violence shelter in DuPage County, attended an informational forum on Human...
Dawn DeSart
- Jan 17, 2019
- 3 min
Learning the Job
My election to the DuPage County Board for District 5 was just over two months ago. The Inauguration and Swearing-In Ceremony was held on...
Dawn DeSart
- Oct 24, 2018
- 4 min
Get to Know Dawn
Candidates get asked all sorts of questions, and rightly so. Constituents deserve the chance to get to know who could be running their...
Dawn DeSart
- Oct 18, 2018
- 4 min
DuPage County Residents to Vote on Three Meaningless Referendum Questions
These referendum questions are an attempt to cherry pick unpopular tax ideas to scare voters about their taxes being raised. By Dawn...
Dawn DeSart
- Oct 10, 2018
- 2 min
The Trouble with 'Midterms'
I contributed to ACE-Naperville's "Speak Out" for October 2018. Here's that post. The Trouble with 'Midterms' By Dawn DeSart Candidate...
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