ROB – Opinion

I have this rock. I don’t remember where I got this rock, or when for that matter. It’s a souvenir. You know what that is; something from somewhere else you picked up from some time past to remind you of another time you wanted to remember. I have more of them than I need. I also have the accumulated collection […]

Instead of using how much money someone can come up with after being arrested to decide if they can be released pending trial, Illinois has decided to consider the nature of the offense, the past offenses of the accused, and their ties to the community to permit a judge to decide. Much alarm has been expressed by those in law […]

The last two Chicago mayors took some news media heat for not sending their kids to public schools, as did Chicagoan Barack Obama when he pushed for education reforms. So, this particular issue is obviously not out of bounds in that city and nobody in public life there should expect otherwise. Chicago Teachers Union president Stacy Davis Gates has in […]

The federal Voting Rights Act forbids political action that results in any reduction of representation based upon race. So Alabama’s Republican majority legislature was wrong when they redrew their congressional district map to eliminate districts with black majorities, and wrong again when they pretended to make adjustments that complied with the Supreme Court’s ruling on the matter knowing that it […]

Another violent reform movement has swept across the land. Cleanup is under way. Some wreckage will remain even after a generation has past. High water marks are indelible. Like a hurricane — normal in an abnormal sort of way. One group denies man can do anything about it, another says they can, still another does more than talk about it, […]