Dennis Byrne

If you thought that Illinois congressional and legislative redistricting was a mystery, take a closer look at what Gov. Pat Quinn and mostly Democratic lawmakers have conjured up. The recently...

In complaining that America had become a "country of whiners," retiring Mayor Richard M. Daley unloaded a speech that no candidate would dare give during a campaign. The speech raises...

The crowds mobbing the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison are right: Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill is indeed an attack on organized government workers. And it's about time. Labor compensation...

The Great Recession brought plumes of new laws and regulations, raining down like suffocating volcanic ash on just about every aspect of America's financial sector, except for one. That's the...

Illinois, the worst is yet to come. All you state retirees: Do you really believe that your pension was in any way secured by those blow-off-the-roof income tax increases? All...

How's this for irony? In the rough and tumble town that Chicago is, the gritty city of big shoulders and of bone-crushers like Mike Ditka and Brian Urlacher, some leading...

The cajoling, nagging or backroom dealing necessary to drive Danny Davis out of the Chicago mayoral race, leaving Carol Moseley Braun as the last major black candidate, signals the arrival...

So, now that the Chicago Board of Elections will allow Rahm Emanuel's name to be on the mayoral ballot, we can — as some candidates have been urging — start...

"End Big Oil's tax breaks, now!" That's the cry of anti-business progressives, and you know what? They're right. Do it. It's also the view of President Barack Obama's National Commission...

December brings the biggest showdown with Illinois' and possibly the nation's most gluttonous corporate freeloader: the corn ethanol industry. Symbolically, the upcoming battle of budget hawks against ethanol's special pleaders...