Columns
-
Confusion abounds over 'safe' withdrawalsOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - Q. You confused me recently in a column about safe rates of withdrawal. I am 68 years old and 80 percent invested in CDs. My CDs are paying between 5 percent and 5.5 per...
-
Style show to benefit Valley Sheltered WorkshopOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - My first exposure to the Batavia Woman's Club was a style show. I was a little kid when I was asked to sing at their style show in the gymnasium at the old high school. ...
-
Post to host bingo game to benefit our veteransOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - Want a chance at some big bingo bucks? Tickets are going fast for American Legion Post 76's third annual Bingo Like Extravaganza, which will be at 1 p.m. Oct. 21 at the ...
-
Sox' loss of Kusnyer will be feltOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - Coaches come, and coaches go. In major-league baseball, they are the thankless pawns. The lucky ones make maybe a third of the minimum players' salary ($380,000), even t...
-
Get-rich plan of glow-in-the-dark tattoos patently wrongOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - Tired of reading stories about college dropouts who think up one stinking idea and then spend the rest of their lives burning through their billions of dollars, I decide...
-
The real story is the landscape, territoryOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - GILA BEND, Ariz. -- I slowed my vehicle down enough to safely pull off the road and on to the shoulder. A few yards away a very large coyote to my right slowly sniffed t...
-
'Gathering' miniseries stirs up a cauldron of troubleOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - The Halloween season gets rolling on TV this weekend in the most unlikely place. Lifetime has made a name for itself with women-in-jeopardy programs. Yet it inverts tha...
-
Help me get to know WheelingOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - From now on, I'll be adding tidbits about Wheeling into this weekly column. I've taken on the coverage of Wheeling along with that of Buffalo Grove and Long Grove. I lo...
-
Prayer breakfast happening next weekOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - There's still time to get tickets to the annual Des Plaines Mayor's Prayer Breakfast on Oct. 18. The event hosted by the Des Plaines Ministerial Association and Mayor T...
-
Even for maligned marathon, half-full glass close at handOct 10, 2007 11:00 pm - If the Cubs could hit with men on base, the clear failings of this year's marathon would have been relegated to a front-page footnote. For the purposes of this column, I...