Opinion Columns
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Tweet will show that I'm not just a twitFeb 10, 2011 12:00 am - I thought I was being funny, but a member of my staff figured I was just clueless. I sent this note announcing my whereabouts on Thursday morning: “DuPage Staff ... I wi...
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Egypt and American declineFeb 09, 2011 11:00 pm - For those who are prone to be prone to such things, recent events in Egypt were further evidence of declining American global influence. The protesters, one article comp...
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The blubber hits the road projectsFeb 09, 2011 11:00 pm - The blubbering has hit the road projects, as the congressional ban on earmarks becomes reality. Tea partyers and other foes of “Big Government” demanded the end to earma...
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Gear up for key decisions about your town, schoolsFeb 08, 2011 11:00 pm - In a very real sense, democracy is a 24/7/365 enterprise. We may vote only once or twice a year, but knowing how to vote — that is, whom we want to vote for — requires s...
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A liberating scene?Feb 08, 2011 11:00 pm - I had never seen anything like it. I sat in the movie theater holding my breath as Marlon Brando wielded the stick of butter. For the sake of families who might be readi...
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Education reform being left behindFeb 08, 2011 11:00 pm - Arne Duncan needs a recess. Once a bright star in the Cabinet, the secretary of education has lost his message and his mojo. Now he could lose his reputation as an educa...
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Birthing pains of democracy in the Middle EastFeb 07, 2011 11:00 pm - Every once in a while, I resurrect my Oveta Culp Hobby Award. Hobby was the Texas newspaper publisher who became Dwight D. Eisenhower's secretary of health, education an...
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Chicken Little and the U.S. debt ceilingFeb 07, 2011 11:00 pm - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke seemed to be channeling Chicken Little when he warned congressional Republicans that any delay in raising the debt ceiling beyond t...
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Holding ax, spoiling for a fight in OhioFeb 06, 2011 11:00 pm - COLUMBUS, Ohio — In 1997, when Republicans controlled the U.S. House of Representatives and John Kasich chaired the Budget Committee, he set his sights on the GOP's 2000...
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Watching Egypt through a lens darklyFeb 06, 2011 11:00 pm - The turmoil in Egypt has been a lesson in the fragility of a right we so often take for granted: to speak. It also has been a reminder to those who deride the “lamestre...