If we end up losing …
So, what happens if Chicago doesn't get the Olympics? We all know what will happen if Chicago is awarded the 2016 Olympics in Copenhagen Friday. Consultants will be hired, engineering...
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Dump the trustees and bring back Chief Illiniwek
You know, if we can dump the University of Illinois Board of Trustees for clouting well-connected applicants into the school, maybe we can get back our beloved Chief Illiniwek. Seriously....
Have the voters had enough?
Now if voters would only stay angry. They were cross enough last week to select a reformer, Mike Quigley, as the Democratic candidate to run for Rahm Emanuel's open seat...
Illinois Democrats play a starring role in this mess
According to a New York Times editorial, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, by appointing Roland Burris to the U.S. Senate, has reduced the Illinois Statehouse to an opera bouffe. For us flatlanders...
Just ignore allthe gloomy hype
The dismal retail sales figures are in for Black Friday and the news is ... good? Wait a minute, the news was supposed to be bad, awful, ghastly, dreadful, etc....
Why not just file for bankruptcy?
President-elect Barack Obama and Democrats are facing the first important test of their promise of change, and they are about to land heavily on the side of the status quo...
Time to give race a respite
A young black woman looked up at my white face from where she was seated in the classroom and said, "Yeah, right." I was teaching a class of students studying...
Had enough yet? Vote for change
Folks who are sincerely interested in "real change" should vote in next Tuesday's election for an Illinois constitutional convention. Former Gen. Colin Powell said the election of Barack Obama would...
It’s the work of the political handlers, not of intelligent life
John McCain's political advisers must have been astonished by the number of journalists asleep at the switch when the Republican presidential candidate dropped his bombshell during last week's presidential debate...
And the public wins!
The American public on Monday stuck it to the "knowledgeable and sophisticated" elites who warned that without the $700 billion federal financial bailout plan all hell would break loose. The...