Jim Walsh

Perhaps the reason only 38 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot in the last general election was vividly pointed out in your June 20 editorial, "Piercing Flanagan's porous armor."...

Since, in all probability, the striking baseball players and the owners do not begin any of their meetings with a rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner," perhaps when the strike...

U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun cites some compelling statistics in her commentary "Take a left ... or a right? Motor Voter Act is what democracy is all about" (Op-Ed, Feb. 3)....

Sen. Bob Packwood`s statement that the United States needs him because he has 25 years` experience in the Senate reminds me of an observation, made by a wag, which may...

Perhaps I`m reading more into your Sept. 6 editorial, ''An unfair way to control the fairways,'' than one should, but is it possible that you have depicted in microcosm one...

Shakespeare`s words from Macbeth might well be used to describe the Senate Ethics Committee`s disposition of the Keating Five fiasco: ''. . . (I)t is a tale told by an...

Your Metropolitan report ''Outgoing Metra boss gets contract'' (Nov. 26) quoted Kevin Thompson, senior research associate for the Civic Federation, a taxpayer research group, as follows: ''Taxpayers don`t really know...

If only half the accusations made by our political candidates against each other are true, each should be begging the voters for forgiveness rather than political support.

Unless an antidote is discovered to combat the type of political arrogance you depicted in your editorial ''Hiring Lipinski to lobby Lipinski,'' we can only look forward to more of...

Twenty-five hundred years ago, Aristotle defined man as being a ''rational animal.'' After reading Kenneth J. Hermann Jr.`s essay, ''It`s time to make kids people, too,'' one would have to...