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Gov. Bruce Rauner talks to workers at Sawing and Shearing Inc., a steel company in Blue Island, about his "Turnaround Agenda" on Friday, March 13, 2015.

Is it good government you want or smart politics?

May 21, 2019 at 5:28 p.m.

Gov. Bruce Rauner has been promoting his "Turnaround Agenda" throughout the state, but he has discovered, as other governors have before him, that the man at the helm has little...

Orland Park Police have trained a crisis intervention team to help people suffering from mental illness. Lt. Joseph Mitchell, left, director of training, organized the effort last year. Sgt. Troy Siewert, center, is the team leader of the intervention unit, and Patrolman John Dargan, right, is one of 11 patrolmen who are members of the team.

Orland Park police crisis team helps mentally ill

May 21, 2019 at 5:27 p.m.

Listening to a voice talking to him through headphones, Sgt. Troy Siewert tried to write down the words to the Star Spangled Banner on a piece of paper. "It's a...

Kadner: SD 227 launches inquiry into superintendent

May 21, 2019 at 5:27 p.m.

This is a story about why many parents become enraged when talking about the public schools. It's also a story that illustrates why those of us who defend public education...

In an about-face from his camp's position a day earlier, Gov. Bruce Rauner acknowledged May 14, 2015, that his proposal to overhaul Illinois' vastly underfunded public employee pension system might not pass constitutional muster.

Keeping state secrets at the public’s expense

June 15, 2018 at 5:02 p.m.

Bruce Rauner promised that, if elected governor, he would shake things up in Springfield, but it's only taken him a few months to learn the Springfield way. There are secret...

Illinois Republican legislative leaders complained that Democrats are failing to "seriously engage" in budget negotiations with Gov. Bruce Rauner.

The property tax con game in Illinois

June 16, 2018 at 5:17 p.m.

Politicians who sit in our state Capitol assume that voters are idiots. That's why Republicans and Democrats alike will tell you they're against increasing the property tax and the other...

Kadner: Impose election blackout on grant announcements

May 21, 2019 at 5:26 p.m.

Every election year, elected officials travel around the state handing out your tax dollars as if they were Santa Claus. They issue news releases and hold press conferences to announce...

Kadner: People don’t know much about Chicago’s future

May 21, 2019 at 5:25 p.m.

I don't know. That's what I've been telling readers asking my thoughts on a solution for Chicago's financial mess. I understand their concern. When the credit ratings reach junk bond...

Members of a pilot project at Cook County's Markham courthouse evaluate prisoners arrested on misdemeanor charges for mental illness. From left: Jennifer Schmidt, staff psychologist, Adler Community Health Services; Dr. Nneka Jones, first assistant director of the Cook County Department of Corrections; Maya Akinfosile, a doctoral student at Adler University; and Elaine Gordon, a Cook County sheriff's employee and clinical therapist overseeing the pilot program.

Kadner: A pilot program to help, not jail, the mentally ill

May 21, 2019 at 5:25 p.m.

Deep in the bowels of Cook County's Markham courthouse near 165th Street and Kedzie Avenue, prisoners arrested overnight and awaiting a bond hearing are escorted into an interview room and...

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) passes against the Indianapolis Colts during the second half of the NFL football AFC Championship game in Foxborough, Mass.

Kadner: With so much cheating in sports, Brady’s punishment’s just

May 21, 2019 at 5:24 p.m.

Tom Brady cheated. He got caught. He is being punished. And that's a very good thing. There are some who contend the superstar quarterback of the NFL's New England Patriots...

Sitting at her kitchen table in Oak Lawn, developmental therapist Meaghan Leonard ponders the potential impact of proposed state budget cuts on an early intervention program that targets children from birth to 3 years old who have developmental disabilities.

When budget cuts hurt those we want to help

May 21, 2019 at 5:24 p.m.

Everywhere in Illinois people are talking about the need to cut the state budget, but until you talk to people such as Meaghan Leonard you will never clearly understand what...

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