Tuesday, December 19, 2017

EXTRA: Could Pence make Middle East trip? Trump's holiday "surprise?"

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PENCE: Middle East, or Indy, for holiday? Vice President Mike Pence made a point of rescheduling his journey to the Middle East for mid-...

Now we see why Trump was so eager to have Moore vote in the U.S. Senate

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John McCain, the senator from Arizona who tried challenging Barack Obama nearly a decade ago for the presidency, is about to demonize himsel...
Monday, December 18, 2017

Let’s not presume that Trump and his political ilk are beaten quite yet

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I’m just as eager as anybody else who was appalled by the 2016 presidential victory of Donald J. Trump to believe that the electorate will c...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

No more rock ‘n’ roll McDonalds? I think Chicago will overcome the loss

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Chicago is going to lose something come year’s end that some people seem to regard as a semi-serious tourist attraction. Yet I can’t help bu...
Friday, December 15, 2017

Do Chicagoans want former cop as mayor? Could he learn from namesake?

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It’s not surprising that former Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy is peeved enough with Mayor Rahm Emanuel that he’d contemplate ...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

EXTRA: School district consolidation? Those are fightin’ words to many!

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Republican gubernatorial challenger Jeanne Ives, the state senator from Wheaton, is most likely trying to appeal to people from mid-sized co...

I’m sure Van Dyke feels picked upon by reporter-type he wanted to silence

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I felt a touch of relief when I learned Wednesday that a Cook County judge tossed out a subpoena that would have forced a freelance writer t...