READ COLUMN AT DAILYHERALD.COMSo much attention is being devoted to the race for president in 2016, you might be forgiven if you overlooked the fact that come March 15, you’ll also be selecting candidates for races much closer to home.We haven’t.And political special interests haven’t either. On many levels, the spring primary ‐‐ in which Read More …
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Covering championship euphoria to the utmost
Go, gulp, Cubs! Heh. Heh. That’s not easy for me, as a White Sox fan, to say. I still consider one of my chief failings as a parent to be that I raised three Cubs fans. One does wish, after all, to shelter one’s children from a lifetime of heartache and disappointment. But there it Read More …
Fox Lake cop’s killing and government’s balance sheet
Two very different stories this week have me thinking about the cost of government and what people should know about it. Read column
A mystery, like nature, abhors a vacuum
There is a rhythm to the cycle of a major news story. We, the public and news people alike, become uncomfortable when the plot doesn’t follow a neat, familiar timeline. The mystery of police Lt. Joe Gliniewicz’ death in Fox Lake is such a story. Read column
Remember reliability, not just immediacy of breaking news
Covering breaking news on the so-called 24-hour news cycle has always been fraught with certain perils. It was challenge enough before the turn of the century, when in most cases the only media were three major television networks and a handful of local TV and radio stations. The surge of 24-hour television news in the Read More …