Boohoo for those ‘suffering’ corporations
So moved am I by the plight of Illinois corporations, what with the big state income tax increase, that I'm asking you, dear readers, to keep sending those letters of...
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City workers deserving of ‘lavish’ pensions
Maybe those defined-benefit pensions aren't so lavish after all. Maybe there are some jobs so dangerous, so demanding of steady nerves and sound judgment under pressure, that the men and...
Obama needs to throw around some outrage
This president doesn't fight back. He's too nice a guy, for one thing. And the style he developed here in Chicago as a "bring-us-together" community organizer just won't let go....
Obama needs to throw around some outrage
This president doesn't fight back. He's too nice a guy, for one thing. And the style he developed here in Chicago as a "bring-us-together" community organizer just won't let go....
Mighty glad this election cycle is over
Thank God that's over. No, I don't mean Halloween. The neighbor kids can egg my sidewalk all they want and toilet-paper the front porch 'til they run out of two-ply....
A job well done: Chicago No. 6 on world list
A blue-ribbon jury has reached a verdict on Mayor Richard M. Daley's 21-year stewardship of Chicago, and the decision is (envelope, please): We're No. 6. OK, so our ranking in...
Flooded basement? Better get used to it
How's that main reservoir coming along? You know — the big hole in the ground that the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District is supposed to be digging alongside the Stevenson Expressway...
When a high-minded movement is ambushed
It's painful being the token liberal on talk radio shows. The other night I was getting hammered by the host and my fellow panelists for arguing that "mainstream media" —...
Crack down on tax dodgers
It's time to step up. It's time for those who call themselves "leaders" in Illinois to start righting our fiscal ship without borrowing more from the future or asking more...
Daley protesting wars to save education
Was that really Mayor Richard M. Daley last week urging people to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? It sure looked like the mayor, up on the speakers' rostrum...