Both of my sons came home for Christmas this year, the first time in four or five years that we have all been together at the holidays.  The younger one lives in the same metropolitan area; he was in Air Force basic training at Christmas last year.  His older brother, the King on this [...]

   By: George Koppe My football career lasted one game, an Eighth grade flag football game in which I wore shoulder pads for the first and only time, played defensive end and tied with another player for pulling the most flags in the game.  It was a contest that pitted one St. Charles School Eighth grade home [...]

George Koppe Riggleman Resignation June 24, 2011 I’m 59 years old, an age when many American men are thinking long and hard about retirement.  Not me.  I like my job, I’ve been at it 20 years and I get paid more money in annual salary and bonus than I ever reasonably expected to earn.  I [...]