Normally, election prognostication columns are one of my favorite things, but with this election cycle truly testing my prophetic mettle, I’m not looking forward to
Month: October 2018
Quick Hits – Just Don’t Do It – Part 2
Survival as a journalist depends upon a capacity to harden your heart or follow in those Zen masters’ non-attachment footsteps. I’d like to think I
Quick Hits – October 26, 2018
This is why Republicans can’t win in Illinois With the friendliest poll numbers putting him 13 points behind J. B. Pritzker, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner
Quick Hits – October 24, 2018
Yes! Judge Dalton really said that! As is always the case, whenever we cover John Dalton, a miserable excuse for a judge and a human
Quick Hits – No mention of Delnor?
As we briefly discussed last Friday, the Daily Herald inexplicably endorsed incumbent Kane County Sheriff Don Kramer over the eminently more qualified Sgt. Ron Hain
Quick Hits Supplemental – A sudden newspaper sadness
Having heard that 4 a.m. slap on the driveway, at 6:45 a.m., I dutifully went out to secure today’s Chicago Tribune. As I grabbed the
Quick Hits – October 19, 2018
Not Recommended! Just in case you didn’t believe me or the 50 commenters on that first column exposing Judge John Dalton’s regular cruelty, the Illinois
Quick Hits – Please vote Hartwell for judge!
When we last left off, we were discussing how we have the power to vote Judge John Dalton out of office and, given his generally
Quick Hits – Let’s Send Judge Dalton packing!
Of the approximately 2,000 columns I’ve written since I started toiling for the then suburban Sun-Times newspapers back in 2006, none has generated the kind
Quick Hits – 2018 First Ward Endorsements!
Since this is gonna be a long one and I’ve got things to do, let’s get right to our endorsements in those contested races: County