Editorials & Opinion
Murdock: Mayor Bloomberg sweats the small stuff
The winner of the 2008 Nero's Fiddle Award is New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Hart: Learning to say you're sorry
What is it with a simple, straightforward apology? Why is that so hard?
No, I'm not thinking of the recently embarrassed Illinois governor or any politician for that matter. I'm thinking of my kids. (And plenty of adults I deal with too.)
A too familiar tale of graft, corruption
The sheer monotony of it is overwhelming. A once-popular politician turns out to be corrupt -- or at least has aspirations of being so but may have been more inept than successful at it -- often after promising to clean up government. Over and over again, history repeats the scenario.
Learning to say you're sorry
What is it with a simple, straightforward apology? Why is that so hard?
No, I'm not thinking of the recently embarrassed Illinois governor or any politician for that matter. I'm thinking of my kids. (And plenty of adults I deal with too.)
Several silver linings in the Blago bust
The age-old question of Chicago politics has always been, "Where's mine?" As in, "You got yours, now I want mine."
Editorial: Mugabe literally makes his country sick
Zimbabwe's dictatorial Robert Mugabe has added another misery to the long list of miseries he has inflicted on his long-suffering country -- cholera.
That's in addition to a brutal police state, a ruined economy with 90 percent unemployment, an "official" inflation rate of 231 million percent and the 5 million people that the U.N. says face starvation next year.
Editorial: Abandoning profit for safety
In a year of bizarre economic events, here's one of the strangest: This week the rate on four-week Treasury bills fell to 0 percent. Even so, the Treasury managed to sell $30 billion of these non-performers.
May: we need to change to flexible fuel vehicles
The price of gasoline is down -- from over $4 a gallon to about $1.70 a gallon. That's because the price of oil is down from almost $150 a barrel to around $40 a barrel. This is good news for moms who chauffeur their kids to soccer games, music lessons and religious school, and for truck drivers moving products from factories to stores.
Editorial: Not so fast on the martyrdom
The uncertainties built into the Bush administration's still largely untested system of military commissions may have denied victories, although of a vastly different kind, to President Bush and five Guantanamo Bay detainees charged with masterminding 9/11.
Schram: Action memo on VA
ACTION MEMO TO: President-elect Barack Obama & Veterans Affairs Secretary-designate General Eric Shinseki.
RE: Why We Need to Re-Name the VA _ to the Department of Veterans Advocacy.
