Letters: A struggling Western Illinois University needs to invest in quality...
As a 1995 graduate of Western Illinois University, I was dismayed to read the editorial on the university (“The crisis at Western Illinois University and beyond,” Aug. 13). While it is accurate, it...
View ArticleEditorial: Is this the last possible solution to Chicago’s parking meter...
Mark these five words: “Manifestly contrary to public policy.” They’re a collective Hail Mary but they could save the people of Chicago billions of dollars from the parking meter disaster, a rip-off of...
View ArticleJim Warren: Deepfakes target Democrats and Republicans alike
“I am Democratic candidate for president,” says Kamala Harris on the startling video, “because Joe Biden finally exposed his senility at the debate.” “This is amazing,” Elon Musk wrote on his X...
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Ana Zamora: Voters don’t want to hear Trump and Harris fight over crime. They...
In the weeks since President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, a new narrative about the election has taken shape. In one corner, there’s presumptive Democratic presidential nominee...
View ArticleZack Smith: Kamala Harris is trying to run from her prosecutorial record
When Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx was elected to office in 2016, she appointed a transition team to develop policy recommendations. That team was co-chaired by then-California Attorney...
View ArticleEditorial: Let the DNC protesters speak (into a microphone)
Stages, tents and portable toilets are one thing; handheld microphones and simple speakers are another. Some activists are upset that the city won’t let protesters set up sound equipment in Union Park,...
View ArticleProfessors: Foster negotiation between police and protesters for a peaceful DNC
As Chicago prepares for the 2024 Democratic National Convention, the threat of violent clashes between police and protesters looms. The memory of brutal confrontations at the 1968 DNC and concerns...
View ArticleHeidi Stevens: A little girl’s birthday party where nobody showed and the...
Teresa Strasser’s words jumped off my screen. “Once upon a time,” she wrote, “a million years ago, in a San Fernando Valley far, far away, my mother had a birthday party and nobody showed. Not a single...
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John T. Shaw: Former Ottawa Mayor Robert Eschbach’s inspiring Illinois...
When Robert Eschbach became mayor of Ottawa, Illinois, in 1999, his community was in serious trouble. Ottawa was in a dispiriting descent, battered by job loss, recurring flooding, a badly...
View ArticleJames Coltella: Our political discourse has devolved into shouting and...
My accent as an Englishman in America hasn’t protected me from the whiplash of dating and ghosting. It strikes me that many people prefer to leave silence to do the talking, rather than express an...
View ArticleEditorial: Brandon Johnson wants to fire Pedro Martinez, Chicago taxpayers’...
When word leaked in mid-July that Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez had rebuffed Mayor Brandon Johnson’s demand that CPS add $300 million in high-cost debt to appease the mayor’s friends at the...
View ArticleLetters: Kamala Harris’ embrace of her identity as a Black woman is not a...
For a long time, white America has quietly clung to what is called the one-drop rule to define racial identity: “One drop of Black blood? You’re Black.” Never mind that to any genealogist, it is genes,...
View ArticleDavid Greising: How prepared are Chicago police for the 2024 DNC?
Now as then, it makes sense to look with caution on the calm before the convention. Then was early August 1968. Now is just a few days before the opening of the 2024 Democratic National Convention....
View ArticleLetters: How the Tribune can make the comics better
Rick Kogan’s column about comic strips is interesting (“Are comic strips still a part of your daily life?” Aug. 13). I have been a Tribune reader since about 1950 and a subscriber since 1960....
View ArticleTribune Opinion quotes of the week ending Aug. 17
Chicago finished up preparations for the big Democratic show coming to town. The nominating convention will be historic with Democrats of all generations expected to attend. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, 82,...
View ArticleDr. Thaer Ahmad: Kamala Harris has an opportunity at the DNC to support a...
As Democrats gather in Chicago this week to officially nominate Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s presidential candidate, many will be thinking of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and the...
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Puneet Cheema and Lewis Bossing: Sonya Massey’s death exposes multiple...
Sonya Massey’s last words were “I’m sorry,” but she had nothing to apologize for. She had followed Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson’s directive to attend to a pot of boiling water on her...
View ArticleLetters: Red Line extension is a huge step forward in reversing inequity
This past week, the CTA made a tremendous down payment on the future of Chicago’s Far South Side. The Red Line extension project is a huge step toward reversing decades of racial inequality, transit...
View ArticleEditorial: Welcome to Chicago, DNC delegates. For this week anyway, our...
The last time Chicago hosted the Democratic National Convention, delegates danced nightly to the “Macarena,” Emmylou Harris sang ”Abraham, Martin and John” as a prelude to star appearances by Patrick,...
View ArticleClarence Page: Maybe it’s in the air. A timely step towards semiretirement.
As one who sympathized and empathized with President Joe Biden, I was relieved when he decided to step aside for a younger generation of presidential contenders. Seeing the unmitigated joy — and relief...
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