Marvin Miller finally made it.
President Trump sent his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to perform a “domestic political errand” in Ukraine, according to Dr. Fiona Hill, a former top Russia adviser to Trump. According to sworn testimony, during the impeachment hearings, by Hill and others, Giuliani was working to the excl…
Ms. Alelston-Shafer seemed so concerned for those who make minimum wage, but she offers no solutions.
Adam Andrzejewski just turned 50, but he insists that, although he’s getting older, he’s also getting better — and his money watchdog group, OpenTheBooks.com, continues to thrive.
There’s good news — but not enough good news — on the campus free-speech front.
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The oddest political couple in the state’s Democratic Party is teaming up again.
Just a quick comment on the Ded. 12 “Lightfoot sets a new standard” editorial.
On Nov. 26, after doing some shopping, we stopped for lunch at the Steak & Shake on North Prospect Avenue in Champaign. We were finishing our meal when our waitress stopped by our booth to inform us that some girls from a nearby booth had paid for our meal. We turned to thank them, but t…
We already have a health and wellness center.
When meeting a Trump supporter, I much prefer the malignantly ignorant Fox-type like David Martin (12/04/19) to the smug dotard expressing views like Bob Townsend’s (11 / 26/19).
To all the journalists, printers, bundle haulers and everyone else who upped their game and proudly put out an award-winning newspaper.
Readers may recall my October column dealing with ombuds. After submitting that piece, I was reminded of an example very close to home.
Everybody talks about skyrocketing property taxes, but nobody ever does anything about them.
A case in New York offers them the chance to clarify the difference between acceptable and unacceptable regulations, or declare the dispute moot and wait — perhaps for years — for another case.
Syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker wrote recently that there was a silver lining to an otherwise-embarrassing chapter in our history, on the one hand referring to the bureaucrats who testified at the Schiff hearings, and on the other the tenor of President Trump’s and his administration’s …
A former gas-plant site is located at Fifth and Hill Street, a community near the University of Illinois campus.
The so-called 'black seat' on the Illinois Supreme Court is in jeopardy.
As the world continues to come up with new technology and social media, I feel there is a need to be aware that cyberbullying is still a thing.
Upon reading Jim Dey’s Dec. 3 column entitled “Time’s not on the side of ERA,” I was once again disappointed in opinion regarding equal rights for women expressed by The News-Gazette.
As reports of scandals spread, governmental ethics have become a hot topic in Springfield.
So, spanked by the 2-9 Northwestern Wildcats. That trademark Lovie Dovie coaching in action yet again.
Seeing how political opinion nowadays can resort to religious appeals, it would be advisable to recall the words of Matthew 7:15:
I believe we need a mass impeachment of the U.S. House of Representatives and, if successful, follow with a general election to replace them. Politicians have become so full of self-interest that they can’t do this job. American citizens deserve more.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin recently presented a bill in Congress to allow Amtrak to sue railroads for lack of on-time performance of their passenger trains.
I can no longer be a Democrat.
As bad as they were when Gov. J.B. Pritzker was asked about them a few weeks ago during a speech at the Economic Club of Chicago, they are even worse now.
By doing the right thing for the right reason, Chicago’s new mayor has shocked the city.
A Nov. 26 letter cites failed entrapment videos by the so-called Center for Medical Progress group of anti-abortion activists (not to be confused with a research program of the same name at the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research) to perpetuate long-debunked myths about Plan…
Unbelievable. We now have an impeachment inquiry that, if you watched, must be followed through from the testimony of almost every witness. Those who didn’t agree there was an attempt to bribe a foreign government admitted if they knew what they know they would have certainly raised an alarm.
The battle between former school superintendent Don Owen and his former employers in Urbana is a long way from over.
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