R. Bruce Dold

There are two different minds on the matter of Dan Rostenkowski. One belongs to politicians and the news media. The other belongs to everybody else in the world. That should...

The first time Luis Gutierrez took me for a tour of his political turf we lunched, at his urging, not on arroz y gandules but on pierogis and kolacky at...

One of the beautiful things about the Chicago Democratic machine was that it could produce a garbage can at will. It didn't matter if you were black, white, Right, Left,...

There's a saying in journalism, generally attributed to a circa-1920s night city editor at the City News Bureau: "If your mother says she loves you, check it out." It's gotten...

Five people count in Illinois politics. No, that's being generous. Since the Democrats are totally on the outs, maybe three people count in Illinois politics. And one of them, Gov....

The meeting of the 46-4700 West Superior Street Block Club came to order a few minutes past 7 p.m. Tuesday, President Frances Ashe presiding. Rev. S.T. Brown of the Christian...

In the wake of Bob Dole's primary election disaster in New Hampshire, it is incumbent on the Republican Party to form a search committee comprised of its most influential and...

The New Jersey company that wants $300 million in Illinois subsidies to build a garbage incinerator in Robbins has been running radio ads. In the ads, an earnest man laments...

Iowans get a little smug about this time every four years, when the presidential candidates come calling and the press follows and it seems (at least to the Iowans) that...

Having utterly failed to reverse the decline of America's schools, politicians have decided to let a computer do it instead. In his State of the Union speech, President Clinton called...