Wasting tax dollars I read in your paper last week that City Council has approved spending $100,000 on an audio/visual system for City Council Chambers! I thought for sure that
I’d bet a million bucks U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas won’t lose his re-election bid at the hands of the gangly, boyish-looking Democratic congressman Robert Francis O’Rourke of El
During the weekend of Aug. 4-5 (and the preceding Friday night), 12 Chicagoans were shot dead, and 62 others were shot and wounded, the Chicago Tribune reported (https://tinyurl.com/yde7jb83).Before last week’s
Cities have banded together in recent weeks to launch a campaign against straws. The charge? Straws are sucking the life out of the environment. Lawmakers have started a campaign, the
From Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, via a column in The Wall Street Journal, comes a call for “detente in partisan hostilities” of the sort that disfigure our politics:
Poverty is no mystery, and it’s easily avoidable. The poverty line that the Census Bureau used in 2016 for a single person was an income of $12,486 that year. For
Politicians are feeling the pressure to distance themselves from burdensome environmental policies that show little benefit while draining the economy. As political figures both in the United States and Canada
Let Rosenstein do his job The charade of impeaching Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had better not go anywhere in the House. I will be watching how Representative Roger Williams
One of the really cool things about democracy is that voters tend to get what they want -- which, um, can also turn out to be one of the really
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers predicted that if Donald Trump were elected, there would be a protracted recession within 18 months. Heeding its experts, a month before the election, The