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Much has been written — and chanted and shouted — about the growing disparity between those whose incomes rise to the top 1 percent and the rest of us.…
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Now is the time when many publications proclaim their choices for “___ of the Year.” My pick for the 2011 word of the year is “gridlock.” Gridlock is no…
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“We’ve got to get money out of politics! This is intolerable!” insists a government reform advocate seated with about 30 others around a square…
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I’ll admit to a bit of a libertarian streak. I want the government to protect me from some things, such as terrorists, robbers and greedy investment…
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An old friend of mine died recently. His last days were chronicled in real time on Facebook.First came a post that he was seriously ill and was in a…
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When Bob Knight was coaching basketball at my Hoosier alma mater, he once belittled sports journalists by saying: “All of us learn to write in the second…
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The voice on my radio this morning intoned that this was the seventh-wettest spring in Illinois since records began being kept in 1895. Statewide, we…
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I have to say that I don’t believe any of the above. But I may be in the minority. In Illinois and across America, teachers have become the scapegoat for…
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The activist the Chicago Tribune once described as “the state’s most vocal advocate for good government” is stepping down after heading the Illinois…
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Democratic lawmakers from Wisconsin and Indiana who saw Illinois as a safe haven in their battles to protect public employee rights might be surprised to…