Articles filed under Opinion
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Nov 26, 2025 4:00 am - November is National Family Caregivers Month, a time to honor the 63 million Americans and 2.2 million Illinois residents providing ongoing, complex care every day. Careg...
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Enforcing immigration laws is not the moral equivalent of the HolocaustNov 25, 2025 4:00 am - Syndicated columnist Michael Barone:
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Beware the 50-year mortgageNov 25, 2025 4:00 am - If the Trump Administration carries out his suggestion that 50-year mortgages will solve the housing affordability problem, I hope that people looking to buy their first ...
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Ghastly story deserved more attentionNov 25, 2025 4:00 am - In a Nov. 21 AP story, Christine Fernando mentioned all of the details but it was difficult to follow how ghastly this all this was: Prosecutors had accused Marimar Marti...
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Peace Prize for Trump? Ukraine situation not likely to helpNov 25, 2025 4:00 am - Guest columnist Keith Peterson:
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Today’s editorial cartoonNov 25, 2025 4:00 am -
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Not exactly John Henry, but still a lesson on humans and technologyNov 25, 2025 4:00 am - I received numerous responses to last Thursday’s column lamenting the incompetence of Artificial Intelligence to identify a Dick Van Dyke Show episode that included a han...
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Thanksgiving is special among holidaysNov 24, 2025 12:21 pm - Thanksgiving is like that beloved old book we take down from the shelf every so often to reread. Although we know the passages by heart, we still find them so very comfor...
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More Illinois tax dollars wastedNov 24, 2025 12:21 pm - Gov. Pritzker recently celebrated the opening of a new subsidized apartment complex in Alton, Illinois. An article describing the property says, “The new community spans ...
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Acts of caring rebuild our connectionsNov 24, 2025 12:20 pm - As both a hospice chaplain and a state representative, I am guided by a simple truth: we are all connected. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Whatever affects one di...