Jenny Lokshin’s recent letter promoted Planned Parenthood as providing quality health care and useful services. I encourage Lokshin to do more research on Planned Parenthood. Their primary business is abortion, not women’s health care. Lokshin stated correctly that U.S. abortions are declini…
You’ve heard the adage, “If you’re innocent, stop acting guilty.” I just learned about “adverse inference” on the news.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is my fourth cousin; we share the same great-great-grandparents on my father’s side. I pieced together that branch of the family tree while reading a popular business magazine a few years ago.
While the fringe element needs no reminder of the Second Amendment’s closing phrase that has become their singular obsession, isolated and enshrined, they may be admonished of the opening lines: “A well-regulated militia .”
I’m coming to the University of Illinois Homecoming football game this Saturday.
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Chancellor Robert Jones was correct to condemn a presentation by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) as anti-semitic (Chancellor’s email on Anti-Semitism dominates UI faculty meeting).
“Never answer an anonymous letter.” — Yogi Berra
A troubled city and school system now have even more trouble.
I recently read that Illinois Athletic Director Josh Whitman is considering a $100 million upgrade to Memorial Stadium.
Our president cheats, hides, betrays our allies and wants to be a dictator.
Illinois' political scandal just grows and grows, and where it will stop, nobody knows.
When the late U.S. Sen. Paul Simon held public office, he made it a practice to release his full federal and state income-tax returns every year so people could see where he made his money.
Health care is a top issue for most voters. Even with co-pays, prescriptions and doctor visits are often budget busters. The numbers of uninsured are rising again for the first time since the Affordable Care Act. One-third of all bankruptcies involve medical bills. While healthcare is a basi…
Seventeen former Watergate special prosecutors have weighed in: The House can and should investigate President Donald Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors.
There’s really, really rich, and then there is enough to choke 1,000 horses.
Their costs are taking larger and larger bites of local property-tax revenues while at the same time, appropriations for state pensions are crowding out funding for core programs like education. Nibbling around the edges, while helpful, won’t get at the real issues driving Illinois' calamitous financial woes.
How much clout does Chicago's mayor have? The people of Illinois will soon find out.
On Oct. 10, I did my weekly grocery shopping at Salt and Light in Urbana. When I arrived home, I checked my receipt and found that two items on sale had been overcharged. I called the phone number on the receipt, and the woman who took my call was very apologetic. She directed me to take the…
The governor’s task force on pension consolidation has recommended that downstate police and fire pension funds be lumped into one giant, state-operated fund.
I must reply to Samuel Chen’s Oct. 2 letter saying that he only voted for Ramona Sullivan for judge in 2018 because there were no other Democratic candidates.
I just read an article that scares me to death. The illustrious Illinois governor wants to get his hands on $14 billion from Illinois police and fire pensions from outside Cook County. And don’t you so-called righteous liberals think he won’t find a way to do it.
Watching federal prosecutors chase down errant politicians and their corrupt friends is one of the state's leading entertainment activities.
The NBA's handling of a tweet involving Hong Kong showed that the league is willing to compromise its principles to make money.
One of the provisions of the sweeping state pension reform law passed in 2010 has always stuck in the craw of first responders.
What Thomas Mercer-Hursh said in his letter against Bill Denny is false. What Bill Denny said is 100 percent correct.
As the Trump administration dramatically cuts the number of refugees allowed to enter this country by almost 50 percent, men, women and children worldwide are grieving.
All of President Donald Trump’s talk reminds me of when President Bill Clinton got on TV and said, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
J.B. Pritzker wants to further strengthen already strong areas of the state’s economy.
Urbana’s Sister Cities Program completed a recent trip to Africa to renew its Sister Cities partnership with Zomba, Malawi (Aug. 27-Sept. 6).
I am thankful to be among the 50 million beneficiaries who credit Medicare for peace of mind in coping with unpredictable costs of health care.
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