Year: 2019

Journalism, especially these days, is a always a long-term consideration. If you expect your columns to have an immediate effect, not only will you be

Silly me! I though Republicans had cornered the market on truly terrible political ideas! Just 120,000 troops to the Middle East? What could possibly go

When a source told me that Kane County Sheriff Ron Hain had hired, fast friend, campaign compatriot, and Elgin City Councilman Corey Dixon to what

Is that a subset like the Hasidic or Orthodox branches? Could it be a death metal band? And exactly how can Louis Farrakhan tell the

Or they simply refuse to govern, which is even worse. Having never quite recovered from their terrible twos, they mount a Quincy Adams Wagstaff “Whatever

Last week we covered – in two parts – how the “system” that failed A. J. Freund wholly consists of us. I posited that, if

Given the effort it’s taking to make the book available to the public and the fact I’ve developed tendinitis in both thumbs from years of

So, let’s continue our conversation on how we failed A. J. Freund, the five-year-old McHenry, Illinois, boy who was allegedly murdered by his parents. But

Like most of you, reading the horrific details of A. J. Freund’s too-short life makes me want to punch some suspect folks squarely in the