R. Bruce Dold

The governor got a pie in the face. The temptation is to say now everybody's even. Not that anyone should condone the use of cream pie as a political statement....

The opposition breezed through town last week. He didn't look so dangerous. A year ago Ted Forstmann gave 40,000 kids a chance to jump to a new school. Forstmann is...

As power plays go, the one staged a week ago by the state's teachers unions was raw and efficient and something they will come to regret. The unions beat Gov....

Al Gore's going to have to work on his smirk. For all the talk about how George W. Bush telegraphs his cockiness, Gore is just about his equal. When Gore...

She is a victim of rape, a college student from Will County, and these are her words. When I started through the ally I did not realize that there was...

Everyone knows that Democrats are more considerate of the less-fortunate than Republicans. So it was only natural for Vice President Al Gore to put out a bold call to raise...

The intelligentsia of the Democratic Party of Cook County still are scratching their heads over how they lost an election that should have been easy pickings. It's the plenty o'...

Republicans have to be wondering if George Ryan is going to bring down the party. The scandal-dogged governor actually had a pretty good run last week. He made good on...

Judge Tom Fitzgerald is a nice guy, so he is probably reluctant to let Mort Zwick drag him down into an eye-gouging, hair-pulling wrestling match for the Illinois Supreme Court....

My, they're having a dirty little campaign down Peoria way. It's a race for the Illinois Appellate Court, which you'd figure would be a tea party. But when you talk...