Invest in early childhood workforce through baccalaureate program
Illinois has a major shortage in its early childhood education workforce. While this shortage has be...
As Chicagoans try to traverse downstate...
April 19, 2021FLICK LITE: Our April listings, as offered by the readers and your own resident Lite Boy: Most inter...
Difficult debate ahead on Chicago board
April 19, 2021Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford really has her work cut out for her if she wants to forge ...
Proposed tax increases assures no economic recovery in Illinois
April 15, 2021The economic cost of Gov. Pritzker’s lockdown strategy during the pandemic will be felt for a long t...
Broken legislative system forgets about residents, crime victims
I was one of the likely three people who actually watched the show hearings in the Illinois House du...
Changes to police should be applied to politicians
April 15, 2021There have been many moves recently to change the way policing is done. Primarily due to incidents o...
We will all feel the lumber price hike
April 12, 2021178% - That’s the price increase for lumber since this time last year. I’m a carpenter since 2x4’s ...
Our ‘spring’ of being vaxxed
April 12, 2021The first snow of winter always falls gently, a scenic blanket of white and Christmas card covers, a...
Why Michael Madigan hasn’t yet been indicted
April 12, 2021Friends ask: “Why hasn’t Mike Madigan been indicted yet? After all, he has been under investigation ...
With proper patent protection, vaccines offer plenty of promise
Since the start of the pandemic, leading drug makers such as Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johns...
Biden confuses a victory with a mandate
One of the most abused and misused terms by a recently elected president and his party is “a mandate...
It is time to “get in the game”
April 8, 2021Now that the spring session of the Illinois General Assembly is underway and there have been literal...
State wheat crop developing
Illinois’ winter wheat crop has begun the maturing process.According to the U.S. Department of Agric...
Illinois social services a Wizard of Oz maze in need of navigation ‘coaches’
April 1, 2021I was a state agency director on three occasions back in the day, yet I don’t think I could navigate...
FDA needs regulatory review and revamp
It’s not easy to ask federal agencies to regulate — themselves. Despite previously committing to a r...
You are what you eat
There are just two ways to look at it; you were born an empty vessel and you are today the sum of yo...
Radical left setting their sights on our Second Amendment rights
Nancy Pelosi and her cadre of progressives continue to prove bipartisanship is an unobtainable allus...
New group combines left- and right-leaning scholars in fight for academic freedom
Whether one is on the right, or the left – or somewhere in between – there’s one topic that often co...
New group combines left- and right-leaning scholars in fight for academic freedom
Whether one is on the right, or the left – or somewhere in between – there’s one topic that often connects scholars from across the political spectrum: free speech.
Trouble on the horizon
I’m just back from a trip to South Carolina to work a weekend at a motorcycle race. I’ve been officiating at such events for a very long time, and although it is a bit of a chore to drive all night, work long days, and then drive all night to be back home again, its been a part of Spring for me since the 1960’s and I’ll miss it when its over.
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Only one new case Tuesday
A woman in her 20s was the sole new coronavirus case reported by the Crawford County Health Departme...
Drug Take Back Day set for Saturday
If you have unused or unwanted prescription or over-the-counter medication that you’re ready to get rid of Saturday will be a good time to do it. Crawford Memorial Hospital will take part in National Drug Take Back Day this Saturday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the East Entrance of the hospital.