Adam Patric Miller: Does my suburban school really need emergency buttons?
It’s the first days of school with students. I’ve taught a few classes, though there hasn’t been much teaching, really. I went over what we would be doing during the semester with seniors, and seniors...
View ArticleHeidi Stevens: Something shifted when Gus Walz stood up and cheered for his...
When Gus Walz stood up and cheered “That’s my dad” on the third night of the Democratic National Convention, in front of 20,000 people in the United Center, in front of 21 million viewers at home, in...
View ArticleLetters: How did ex-TV reporter, who participated in mockery of Gus Walz, not...
Former Amundsen High School volleyball coach Amy Jacobson, a former television reporter, can’t seem to catch the clue bus when it comes to decision-making. She just resigned from her role at Amundsen...
View ArticleLetters: An overdose prevention site on the West Side would save lives
On this International Overdose Awareness Day, Aug. 31, we honor those lost to the opioid crisis. This day hits close to home for Chicago’s West Side residents like me. In neighborhoods such as Austin,...
View ArticleTribune Opinion quotes of the week ending Aug. 31
It’s nearly the end of summer in Chicago, which means back to school and business. The mayor gave a preview of the upcoming budget session reporting that the city is facing a whopping $982 billion...
View ArticleDan Pogorzelski: The West should put its straws away. Great Lakes water is...
It is my hope to put to rest the mistaken belief that Great Lakes water, now, or at any point in the future, will be used to solve the water woes of the western United States. This is not going to...
View ArticleClarence Page: Manhood is on the ballot, as if politics weren’t crazy enough
In case you somehow haven’t noticed, manhood is on the ballot. Even before President Joe Biden stepped aside to let Vice President Kamala Harris step up to be the Democrats’ presidential nominee,...
View ArticleRep. Raja Krishnamoorthi: Let’s throw the penalty flag at China’s unfair and...
Imagine if football games were played with no referees. At first, this might sound appealing. After all, nobody likes penalties or the long waits while plays are reviewed. But without any effort to...
View ArticleLetters: CTU President Stacy Davis Gates has misplaced priorities
Last weekend, my downstate friends asked me, “What is going on with the Chicago Teachers Union?” I shrugged my shoulders. After reading CTU President Stacy Davis Gates’ op-ed in the Tribune (“CPS...
View ArticleEditorial: Can private equity help the Chicago Bears finance a new stadium?
Ownership of NFL teams is one of the most exclusive clubs in the world, but it just got a little less so. The league last week took the long-awaited step of allowing private equity firms to take...
View ArticleMarie Lynn Miranda: Public higher education is essential to training our...
To build American capacity for innovation and growth and to remain competitive in a global economy, the current state of our national infrastructure is appropriately an important bipartisan focus....
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Letters: We need to see more serious thought from Kamala Harris on her...
Housing prices are high; the demand is greater than the supply. Encouraging new housing starts can help reduce the gap. That part I get. But giving out money to help more potential homebuyers enter the...
View ArticleLaura Washington: Kamala Harris’ turn in 2019 debate signals a potent...
The great debate, the highly anticipated throw down between Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and former Republican President Donald Trump, is a little more than a week away. The Sept. 10 debate...
View ArticleEditorial: This Labor Day, our job market needs a push. Federal Reserve needs...
Finding a job is getting a lot harder, and it’s likely to get harder still, but there’s an obvious remedy. The U.S. Federal Reserve needs to cut interest rates. It needs to cut rates by a greater...
View ArticleDavid McGrath: Teaching taught me that female leaders help others excel
I officially entered the full-time labor force in 1972 when I drove my 1964 Olds from my childhood home in Evergreen Park to 71st Street and Loomis Boulevard on the city’s South Side for my first day...
View ArticleKelly McKinney: Disaster preparedness must be front and center in the...
Thirty-two years ago, a tropical storm wandered over an area of superheated water and exploded into a monster Category 5 hurricane with 174 mph winds. Compact and powerful, Hurricane Andrew slammed...
View ArticleLetters: This New Yorker hopes the White Sox don’t break the record for most...
The Aug. 29 sports column “Final month could be memorable — or not” notes: “The next stop on the Magical Misery Tour is the 2003 Detroit Tigers’ American League record of 119 losses, before the...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: Is nuclear arms control dead?
There was a time when the subject of nuclear weapons was so consequential to international peace that it could bring even the most intense adversaries into the same room. Increasingly, it feels that...
View ArticleEditorial: Summer is over, and an autumn reckoning awaits Mayor Brandon Johnson
We hope Mayor Brandon Johnson had a restful Labor Day weekend because the autumn challenges facing the mayor are shaping up to be the most pivotal so far in a term that already has been a bumpy ride....
View ArticleEditorial: A city mourns with a native son and daughter over the murder of...
Less than two weeks had passed between the gut-wrenching address Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg gave at the Democratic National Convention and the murder late last week of their captive son, Hersh, at...
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