Dennis Byrne

Wait a minute. Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich just signed a law making high school students take four years of English? You mean they aren't already? It's inconceivable that anyone could...

Little girls again are gripped by a full-blown infatuation with princesses, and I couldn't be happier. For years, the idea of little girls liking stories about princesses and even--gag--emulating them,...

How fitting that President Bush came to Illinois last week to sign a transportation authorization bill that may be the most lavish pork barbecue in history. Illinois, the most politically...

Asked if he supports the construction of what would be America's tallest building, Fordham Spire, on the lakefront, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley said, "It would be a great skyscraper...

After the limp response House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) gave to the idea of keeping the corruption-busting Patrick Fitzgerald on as the U.S. attorney here, the immortal words of White...

With partisan battle lines already formed in the same, old way over the nomination of John Roberts Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court, you could almost script his Senate testimony:...

"Hot dog: Idiom, a person who performs showy stunts." Like our own Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who snuck $10 million past the Illinois General Assembly to fund state-sponsored stem-cell research, including...

How odd that liberals on the U.S. Supreme Court have come down on the side of influential corporations and their profits, and against less resourceful homeowners. At least that's the...

Ethanol--the corn-based gasoline additive that's supposed to be good for us and the planet--is a case study of how special interests that run amok in Washington help empty your wallet....

The only question now is what will come first: Mayor Richard M. Daley's unraveling or the next mayoral election. We've got almost two years to the next Chicago mayoral election,...