The recent cartoon depicting the Iranian downing of a domestic airliner should have included a second pane depicting the U.S. downing of Iran Air Flight 655 on July 3, 1988.
Is President Trump’s impeachment “unfair,” as he claims? Just look at what’s happened! An anonymous whistleblower outed his “perfect call!” Government officials ignored his order not to testify during the House hearings! Speaker Pelosi held on to the Articles so long that new inculpatory evi…
Some people have a great work ethic — then there’s Nellie Gilpin.
The Daily Bead Soup Kitchen is pleased to report that a generous C-U community made our 11th annual Backpack Giveaway a resounding success.
Let me see if I have this straight: The University of Illinois has recently gone on record as bemoaning the fact that in-state enrollment was way down and admitted is was probably because of the high tuition.
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If people want transparency in government, here’s an idea.
It ain’t over till it’s over, as shown by a recent First District appellate court decision that revived a lawsuit involving the 1982 case.
As a child, I remember my grandmother’s homemade election cake. Voting was a tradition in our household. My husband and I took our son, from babyhood on, to the voting booth, and he caught the habit.
It’s time to put some real teeth into lobbying rules regarding present and former legislators.
Higher education is an investment, not just a cost. By not adequately funding higher education in Illinois, we are eating our seed corn.
In the last few years, I have noticed my strength in being present with myself regardless of what is going on around me.
Wow. What a tasteless cartoon on the Jan. 16 editorial page.
By ordering the assassination of a prominent Iranian leader, President Trump has dramatically increased the chances of the last thing anyone should want: a new U.S. war in the Middle East.
Hooray for the parents of Unit 4’s Garden Hills School children.
I sympathize with Stone Creek residents and club members who made lifestyle choices around the existence of a golf course in that location, especially those who recently purchased homes there.
Now that Cullerton is out and Harmon is in, it’ll be back to business as usual.
The 2018 election in IL-13 was not a Blue Wave, but instead a Red Recession.
Although unimpressed with Paul Frye's style, a three-judge panel dismissed a sex-discrimination lawsuit that former players filed against Frye and other school officials for his use of 'crude and vulgar' language in motivating his players.
Federal prosecutors keep ratcheting up the heat on their investigative targets.
Why bother watching the Senate impeachment trial of the 45th President? There are plenty of reasons, as laid out for The News-Gazette by eight UI professors of political science and law.
In a sense, well-off states become more well off because of the kind of people they attract. That’s because movers aren’t just bringing themselves and their families, but their socio-economic status.
Will the governor’s wise words fall on deaf ears? Probably.
The organization of Champaign County government, only one of many levels of government in Illinois, can be confusing to its constituents.
Great freedom fighters or revolutionaries live two lives: one when they lived and a another after their death.
The assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was a deliberate provocation that I sincerely doubt had anything to do with an imminent threat. But it’s turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
We hear the economy is great, and it is ... if you are middle class or above and benefit from the stock market.
I’ve been pleasantly surprised to find better headlines in the News-Gazette since the new ownership took over.
The people of Champaign County could have told Congress that Prohibition wouldn’t work, that the public wouldn’t obey the law and would find all sorts of clever ways around it.
On the verge of spring training, MLB's commissioner sends a tough message.
The Illinois House speaker — owing to a variety of pending criminal investigations and some unappetizing disclosures related to a close associate — has become a punching bag of sorts.
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