R. Bruce Dold

Not being a buddy of Jerry Reinsdorf, I can only guess at why he's trying to cast out so many of his professional athletes. All the sports legalese about salary...

A sharply divided Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the 18-year-old man known as Baby Richard must attend Illinois State University in the fall. In separate dissents, one justice found...

People in Chicago rarely recognize the advantages to living in Springfield. The town has a decent Thai restaurant. It has no rush hour, except when the Bloomington Gold Corvette Show...

In the honor code of the aldercreatures, as Mike Royko used to call them, it's proper to lie, steal and plunder the estates of little old ladies. It's proper as...

Last weekend Gov. Jim Edgar's great, big plan to save the Illinois schools was mugged and left for dead in the General Assembly. This week, the so-called friends of education...

Jim Edgar has run the state for six years, got 64 percent of the vote in his last election, has public approval ratings above 70 percent and has his hands...

May will stand as the month that the National Rifle Association elected Moses and lost Glenn Poshard. Despite appearances, that's not a good tradeoff for the gun lobby. Moses needs...

Somebody's gonna lotto, might as well be schools. The people pushing a tax increase for education haven't adapted the lottery jingle to their own purposes yet, but it might not...

Since Jerry Springer went to law school and I didn't, I figured he must have spotted something in the 1st Amendment that I missed. There he was on his opening...

There won't be another Mike Royko because there won't be another newspaper writer with his talent and insight. Eventually, after the numbness over losing him subsides, we'll come to deal...