R. Bruce Dold

It's not too early for hard-working American families to thank Congress for the $500-per-child tax credit they are about to receive. The credit is included in the House and Senate...

Illinois, the Garbage State. It kind of has a ring to it. Hey, you take your distinctions where you can find them. If Illinois wants to spend $300 million a...

If Mayor Daley could get one wish for 1996, I think it would be to have a safe and sane Democratic National Convention. No cops clubbing protesters and reporters in...

Some of my best friends are lawyers. I like them anyway. In my trade it's a little dicey to take a holier-than-thou attitude with lawyers, since every poll of the...

The best lobbyists play both sides of the fence. They give a little something to the Republicans and then they give a little something to the Democrats, and then maybe...

Joseph Schneider, the former judge who oversees the supposedly momentous reforms in the way Illinois treats its most vulnerable children, announced last week that he is quitting. As far as...

My friend Dawn has been hunting for Lloyd Lehman. He ought to be fairly conspicuous: dark hair, medium build, 60 years old, got 378,000 votes last year when he was...

English as the official U.S. language? Maybe that's when we'll understand the tax code, EPA rules, . . . Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama has sponsored a bill to...

The Republicans must have a death wish. Here they have a perfectly serviceable front-runner for president in Sen. Bob Dole, and they're restless. He's too old. Too staid. Too moderate....

The first and last time I had a conversation with Gus Savage, I asked a question and he answered with a good 10-minute rant. He guessed incorrectly, by my voice...