Did Mayor John A. Ostenburg Cause The Great Recession?

Commentary
By Gary Kopycinski

Did Mayor Ostenburg cause the Great Recession? This is America, after all, and we have a right to know.

Listening to the rhetoric in the current political campaign, I realize that some of the criticisms of our local economy are also directed at me, and every other member of the Village Board. We serve with the mayor, after all. We own our successes, and we must own our failures. But during…