Columns
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How father, son with autism bonded through riding roller coastersSep 26, 2025 2:30 am - Tom Callsen and son Thomas, who has autism, have ridden 471 different roller coasters across the United States over the past 20 years, finding joy in the physical thrill and bonding experience.
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Benedictine ends Aurora’s long conference win streakSep 25, 2025 6:09 pm - Benedictine scored 3 fourth-quarter touchdowns and survived a long lightning delay to end Aurora’s 46-game conference win streak last Saturday.
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Is it ever reasonable to criticize high school athletes?Sep 25, 2025 5:40 pm - With the landscape of high school athletics changing -- and the finances -- has it become reasonable to criticize the athletes earning money?
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This is not funnySep 25, 2025 4:00 pm - “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, told a right-wing podcaster, “this” being the suspension ...
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Silvy: Bears’ bounceback game boils down to Johnson’s coachingSep 25, 2025 6:00 am - We knew Bears coach Ben Johnson had the creative playbook, but many wondered if he would hold the team accountable without Dan Campbell at his side and if he could command the locker room. We also knew that the words would be hollow if the Bears didn’t take them to heart.
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A link between trust, skepticism that can combat ‘fake news’Sep 25, 2025 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: Addressing the rise of "fake news," an expert explains the importance of news literacy - teaching discernment in evaluating information from various media sources.
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In Harris book, why the petty slurs and slights?Sep 25, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Byron York: There’s no law requiring a politician to write a book an election. But Kamala Harris wrote one anyway.
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Sarley: How we were rescued from our fishing excursion on Lake MichiganSep 24, 2025 7:34 pm - This is going to be the end of my saga about my experience at the world’s largest professional walleye tournament. To recap, we had just speared a massive wave, completely inundating us. We were totally soaked and sitting in 40-degree temperatures with stiff winds. We were already late for the weigh-in and had released our solitary fish.
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Bears Film Study: Eberflus brings new meaning of doomsday to Dallas defenseSep 24, 2025 6:19 pm - Were the Bears really good or Dallas’ defense under Matt Eberflus incredibly bad? Yes. Bears Film Study breaks it down.
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Golfer’s drive gets St. Edward program back on the linksSep 24, 2025 4:18 pm - St. Edward senior Kendall Pemberton wanted to play golf as a junior in 2024. So she recruited players and a coach to keep the program alive.