John McCarron

Who knew it could get so lonely so fast in the Oval Office? Two weeks ago he was the toast of the town, awash in bipartisan bonhomie, surrounded by inaugural...

Forget the circus. Start watching the real show. Some may think it's more entertaining than Barnum & Bailey, but the rest of us need to look past Blago & Burris...

People are stupid, and they're going to get a lot stupider. Pardon my grammar, but that's my take on the two blockbuster news events of last week -- the arrest...

What timing. Just as the U.S. economy is about to nosedive, crippled by a free market run amok, the University of Chicago is opening a new center for economic research...

People keep asking which side I'm on in the fight over where to build a new Chicago Children's Museum. My answer is neither side. I have friends on both sides,...

And now, from the folks who brought us subway breakdowns, doomsday budgets and fulsome fare increases, get ready for 100 miles of "dedicated bus lanes." Or, as we disrespected car...

See if I've got this right: The two hot proposals out there are to take Midway Airport private and to take Wrigley Field public. OK, I'm good with those. Selling...

What's wrong with earmarks? OK, so the legislative practice of funding pet projects is named for a farming method for branding pigs. And pigs remind us of pork, and we...

I was shoveling snow, thinking about the results of the Democratic primary for Cook County state's attorney, and suddenly it all made sense. That's another good thing about shoveling. Something...

It's about time. House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) conceded last week that any bailout of public transportation for northeastern Illinois needs to be tied to a statewide public works program...