Jim Nowlan

After 60 years of active service as a moderate Republican, I feel shunned by my party. Why? Because I am opposed to kids carrying assault-style rifles on our streets. I...

My successful friends all bad-mouth Illinois. They're going to leave, or so they threaten; some do. Yes, we have problems, yet these are more than offset by impressive, possibly unmatched,...

Not long ago, I moved from a tiny town to a small city of about 8,000 people in central Illinois to be closer to the action. You know: band concerts,...

Downstate Illinois (the 96 counties outside the six metropolitan Chicago counties) is hurting, yet few seem to notice. A bipartisan downstate caucus of lawmakers could establish a dashboard of goals...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker and state lawmakers have recently been trumpeting the great financial shape of Illinois. Balderdash. And they know it. There will almost certainly be state tax increases by...

The Illinois Republican Party is irrelevant in Illinois politics. The GOP State Central Committee has no bench, no money, no ideas and no platform. Republicans hold but three of 17...

Illinois can fix its broken fiscal system — without increasing tax rates on the rich, or anyone else. Hard work and painful actions will be required, but it is absolutely...

If the 2020 presidential election tells us anything, it's that there appears to be space for a major new political party. Exceptions abound, but generally speaking, minorities and urban liberal...