As I write this, rays of bright sunshine are screaming through the window in my newsroom office and bouncing off my computer screen, nearly blinding me. It’s days like this that I realize I really shouldn’t have left my sunglasses in the car. The irony, however, is that the topic of this ...

I was a preschooler when the Watergate scandal broke in 1972. My most vivid memory was my frustration that PBS was broadcasting the Senate Watergate hearings gavel to gavel, pre-empting Sesame Street. Incredibly, it’s been 50 years since the “White House plumbers” were arrested June 17, ...

As we all struggle to make sense of an act that simply cannot be made sense of, families late last week began burying their children. America’s latest school shooting left 21 people — 19 fourth-graders and two teachers — dead and 17 others injured. The man who entered Robb Elementary ...

I was a cub reporter here when the 10th anniversary of the region’s 1985 F-5 tornado was approaching. To be more specific, I was a Tribune Chronicle freelance correspondent really hoping to become a full-time cub reporter. One of my assignments back in those early days was to cover a ...

Wall Street, according to an “explainer” story I saw moving late last week on The Associated Press wire, is teetering on the brink of a “bear market.” That, of course, is the term used when an index like the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, or even an individual stock, ...

One of the biggest frustrations that comes with seeing tax levies on an election ballot isn’t that local governments or boards of education want to raise your taxes. Undoubtedly, most of us understand that over time, the cost of doing business goes up. Just like in private business, ...