Editorial: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s massive new debt plan must get intense...
On the face of it, the Johnson administration’s plan to float up to $830 million in general-obligation bonds, unveiled just a day after Chicago’s first credit-rating downgrade in a decade, seems...
View ArticleLetters: The CTA can’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results
Poor Chicago! We read in the paper about how public transportation is short of revenue again and that fare increases are looming. Will increasing the fare bring in the needed money? Let’s try a thought...
View ArticleDaniel DePetris: Let’s not overreact to Gaza ceasefire
Whether you think Donald Trump or Joe Biden deserves the credit for pushing Israel and Hamas into a ceasefire deal is largely a sideshow to the main event. As the Tribune Editorial Board astutely...
View ArticleEditorial: Chicago should aim for ‘World’s Tallest,’ not ‘World’s Tallest...
This time of year, we often overlook the buildings that envelop us in the Loop as we trudge to work, shoulders bent against cruel winds and bitter cold. But we walk among giants, and that includes 311...
View ArticleEditorial: Disengagement is no answer to Trumpian excess
As Donald J. Trump roared out of the gate with a barrage of radical executive orders, blathering rhetorical weaves and handing out ill-considered pardons to boot, many Americans of our acquaintance...
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Laura Washington: Rahm Emanuel and Jesse Jackson Jr. aren’t going anywhere
Jesse Jackson Jr. and Rahm Emanuel are two peas in a pod. Say what, you say? Wondering where the twain meet with these veteran politicians? They may be radically different in myriad ways, but Jackson...
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Editorial: Presidents are issuing more pardons. That’s not a good thing.
Maybe you’re mad about President Joe Biden’s parting gift of a preemptive pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci and members of the Biden family. If not, you’re likely frustrated that President Donald Trump...
View ArticleLetters: What will Donald Trump’s return to office bring us?
“I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of the president of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United...
View ArticleJens Ludwig: Parents of private school students like the Lab School are also...
A majority of Americans think public schools are going in the wrong direction. Donald Trump’s administration believes the problem is inefficient government bureaucracy and is pushing for school...
View ArticlePaul Vallas: Attacks on Eileen O’Neill Burke are unfair
When an assistant state’s attorney with Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s office asked a defendant before going under oath if the person needed to consult an attorney, the defense...
View ArticleHeidi Stevens: Bishop Budde’s bold sermon, history’s ‘moral mavericks’ and...
When Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde led a prayer service at Washington’s National Cathedral the day after President Donald Trump was sworn into office, she did not hesitate, nor did she...
View ArticleEditorial: TikTok lives on. So does its harmful effect on kids.
TikTok went dark in the United States for a little while, but is now back online here thanks to a stay of execution from Donald Trump. The newly inaugurated president seems to be working toward some...
View ArticleLetters: Op-ed condemning Catholic ‘natural law’ is ignorant of its beliefs...
In the Jan. 18 op-ed “Will influence of Catholic “natural law” make America medieval,” author Peter H. Schwartz attempts to correlate Catholic dogmatic beliefs to the rise in what he discerns to be...
View ArticleEditorial: Chicago parents, kids struggle as CTU contract battle drags on
The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools have been battling over a new collective bargaining agreement for nine months, a spectacle that has taken the focus off what actually happens in...
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Brad Weisenstein: Rally around the Illinois flag we’ve already got
Illinois is considering whether it needs a new state flag. Why? Because Gov. JB Pritzker said “it may be time we create a new one that exemplifies the values of our great state.” But when it comes to...
View ArticleTom Geoghegan: Pedro Martinez’s private contract takes advantage of city...
As the new “hybrid” board of education meets, it will be the fourth board under which Pedro Martinez has served, under one and the same contract, as CEO of Chicago Public Schools. The Lori Lightfoot...
View ArticleElizabeth Shackelford: Donald Trump’s first week signals a coercive, not...
Donald Trump has already issued a slew of dramatic proclamations, but it isn’t yet clear how many will come to fruition. In foreign policy, at least, the message is crystal clear, even if the impact...
View ArticleRep. Steve Reick: Illinois cannot afford the pension reforms in Fair...
The most pressing issue facing Illinois is the massive debt owed to our public pension systems; our five state plans are currently underfunded by an estimated $140 billion, and billions more are owed...
View ArticleLetters: Bishop who pleaded with Donald Trump for mercy teaches us all to...
The voice of one crying in the wilderness. That biblical phrase personifies the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, bishop of the Diocese of Washington who led the prayer service at Washington’s National...
View ArticleEditorial: Stop playing politics with disaster aid to California
When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in late August 2005, it took Congress just a few days to approve $10.5 billion in federal disaster aid at President George W. Bush’s request. Lawmakers...
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