Charles Selle

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Labor Statistics says food prices have risen 2.7% compared to the same time last year.

Altruism continues during this Thanksgiving week as people volunteer to fight hunger. Such work should warm the hearts of even our most curmudgeonly neighbors.

Backers of the annual Smokeout say stopping smoking or dipping for a day is the first step toward a tobacco-free life. Yet fewer smokers mean less tobacco tax revenue.

Nothing wrong with asking for a little hope from our higher beings. Who doesn’t need a bit of that now and then?

A photo of agents posed last week in front of Chicago’s steel-polished Cloud Gate sculpture, aka “The Bean,” and circulated widely sure looked like it was taken as a memento...

As the longest federal shutdown in history continues apace, it has so far forced nearly 37,000 VA workers to be either furloughed or to continue working without pay, the VA...

Are those who voted for the president happy with what’s evolved since the 2024 election and since he took office?

Losers in the massive $1.5 billion package enacted to avoid the so-called “financial cliff” for mass transit are motorists, mainly those in the suburbs surrounding Chicago.

For communities, businesses are their golden geese. They pay taxes, provide jobs and usually give freely with funding when asked.

Through two world wars, the Great Depression and several recessions, the bright white cinder-block building built in 1910 by Gurnee pioneer Rowley McClure has stood the test of time.