Holding Illinois hostage over tax breaks
If Ohio wants to shower Sears Holding Corp. with $400 million to lure the retailer away from Hoffman Estates, I say, "Fine, do it." And let Ohio Gov. John Kasich...
Home > Reviews
All Stories
Best friends for ever and ever and ever
I first met Paul in fifth grade, about when he began smoking, drinking and messing with women. Well, that came a few years later, but I did meet Paul in...
End the gripe fest
"Eat the rich." A sign carried by an Occupy protester at Jackson Boulevard and LaSalle Street Aside from a good belch, I don't think it would yield much satisfaction, considering...
Quinn’s quandary
Gov. Pat Quinn's planned appearance Thursday at the pro-choice Personal PAC annual awards luncheon is a sharp stick in the eye of his professed faith, and Illinois' Catholic bishops have...
Will GOP presidential hopefuls fail to KO wobbly Obama?
To Dennis, from Eric What does it tell you that, even though the economy is apparently stuck in the doldrums and President Barack Obama's base is dispirited and his popularity...
Will GOP presidential hopefuls fail to KO wobbly Obama?
To Dennis, from Eric What does it tell you that, even though the economy is apparently stuck in the doldrums and President Barack Obama's base is dispirited and his popularity...
A good mix: Cameras, speeders
... and among these unalienable rights are life, liberty and driving as fast as we damn well please. Thus, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plans to install cameras on some city streets...
Living dirt poor
Occupy Chicago and other practitioners of those new and spreading protests want us to better understand and empathize with the poor. So let's work on that. The U.S. Census Bureau...
Should pensions be a top priority?
Illinois' biggest problem is the state budget; the budget's biggest problem is the plush pensions for public employees; lavish pensions are a problem because of a constitutional clause that bans...
Disappearance of the frontier itch
In 1893, historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the American frontier had closed, raising an important question: Absent the frontier, what would fuel the audacious, inventive and energetic nature of...