Mark Brown: John Lambert was a mess. There's no getting around it. The young Logan Square man never made it through his freshman year of high school. He couldn't hold a job or keep a dollar in his pocket.
Gov. Blagojevich, known to be a big baseball fan, must have had the same problem at work Wednesday that a lot of us were facing -- stayed up too late the previous night to watch the All-Star Game and didn't get enough sleep.
William Greene would like to register his guns with the city of Chicago. So would Charles Wilson, Ronald Wallace, Alberto Ortega, J. Anthony Clark, Nashaat Mhanna, Thomas Scileppi and Darrell Powell.
It's going to take more than that new DNA evidence and letter of apology last week from the prosecuting attorney to convince some people that family members weren't responsible for the killing of JonBenet Ramsey.
"I've got a bone to pick with you." The voice was coming from off to my left, down around ankle high, at the end of a six-foot leather leash. You're not supposed to have any bones, I answered. The vet says they're not good for you. Who gave you a bone?
We are a cruel people. There's no getting ready around it. We're always ready to believe the worst about others, to sit in judgment when we don't have all the facts.
Rich Szatkowski is a car guy -- a heartbroken one. What does it mean to be a car guy? I'll let Szatkowski explain:
A man is lucky to come up with one truly good idea in his life. And if he does, then he at least ought to get credit for it, especially when the only thing his good idea is doing for him is costing him money.
The Hispanic Democratic Organization is officially dead. The group that became known, feared and loathed by its initials -- HDO -- filed its Final Report this week with the Illinois State Board of Elections, legally terminating its activities as a political committee.
If the late R. Eugene Pincham had written his own obituary, you can bet the former judge would have prominently included a passage about the program he created in his courtroom that enabled defendants to study for their GED to keep from going to jail.
In the course of many years in this line of work, I've often had occasion for somebody to inquire of me, "That must be illegal. What does the law say?"
The lawyer who defended city patronage chief Robert Sorich on federal fraud charges says he faults Mayor Daley and the corporation counsel's office for the hiring procedures that sent his client to prison, which isn't to suggest he thinks they did anything wrong.
Mark Brown: People who pay their bills have a low tolerance for those who don't. I can be a little like that myself, so I can relate. When I hear about all these home foreclosures, I tend to wonder how many of those folks who got in trouble by refinancing have their own flat-screen televisions, while I'm still hoping to buy my first some day, and how many of them frequent the riverboats.
Mark Brown: Without borrowing or lending so much as a nickel, seven families living in an Albany Park apartment building have become the unwitting victims of the mortgage foreclosure crisis -- and possible fraud by their landlord. And their story may be the tip of yet another treacherous iceberg in these turbulent economic waters.
