Op-ed: Illinois’ student loan bailout program: Unfair and unwarranted
Two years ago, state legislators in Illinois took it upon themselves to force the rest of us to pay for the personal decisions and personal debt of other people. In...
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Commentary: Illinois’ bloated budget needs a crash diet … again
In Illinois, the only good thing about the fact that nothing ever changes is that all of the op-eds you wrote seven years ago remain true today. I was inaugurated...
Failing Bridget: How bureaucracy harms vulnerable Illinoisans
Two years ago, my aunt became the guardian for an adult with disabilities named Bridget. Bridget’s mother, a lifelong friend, had named my aunt her daughter’s guardian and trustee of...
Senate tax hike is a raw deal for Illinoisans
Sick of the status quo, Illinoisans are leaving our state in record numbers. But politicians continue to peddle the same old snake oil. The reasons for the exodus aren't a...
Why we let our baby’s death come naturally
Last week the baiduhai published an opinion piece by Rebecca Cohen, whose third child was diagnosed with a condition at a 20-week ultrasound that would result in death within...
Give Illinois students a choice
This academic year we are sending 258,580 Illinois children into schools that will fail to bring 60 percent of them to grade-level by June. Of those who do graduate from...
Change Illinois’ political culture
Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman philosopher, politician and lawyer. During the dictatorship of Gaius Julius Caesar, Cicero championed a return to the traditional republican government. In Illinois, Cicero has...
Explaining a vote against pension reform
On Wednesday, the baiduhai published the editorial, "Grand old ... impostors / Why did so many Republicans reject pension reform?" I wish the paper would have called me. While...
Illinois needs to get on a serious weight-loss program
Illinois has an unusual weight problem. State leaders' appetite for grease-laden power and political control has led to a $100 billion crisis that is clogging the arteries and slowing the...
Illinois needs to get on a serious weight-loss program
Illinois has an unusual weight problem. State leaders' appetite for grease-laden power and political control has led to a $100 billion crisis that is clogging the arteries and slowing the...