Sorry about that 'sorry': State has good side
Carol Marin: My brain is withering in the July heat. So when I finish writing this, I'm off to vacation for two weeks. But before I go, there are a few words I'd like to reconsider. Wednesday, I wrote a column about the state Legislature and the blood feud between Gov. Blagojevich and Speaker of the House Mike Madigan. In it, I used a term I'd like to take back.
Carol Marin: My brain is withering in the July heat. So when I finish writing this, I'm off to vacation for two weeks. But before I go, there are a few words I'd like to reconsider. Wednesday, I wrote a column about the state Legislature and the blood feud between Gov. Blagojevich and Speaker of the House Mike Madigan. In it, I used a term I'd like to take back.
Odds long for constitutional convention
What do Barack Obama, the legislative morass in Springfield, and a constitutional convention have in common?
Still waiting for answers on beach asbestos
If you're headed to Illinois' most popular beach this weekend, what do you know about asbestos fibers in the sand you'll be sitting on or your kid is making a sandcastle with?
If you're headed to Illinois' most popular beach this weekend, what do you know about asbestos fibers in the sand you'll be sitting on or your kid is making a sandcastle with?
Soaring taxes lead to sore taxpayers
There it was, right in front of me, the face of the Dump Todd Stroger Revolution. I witnessed it at the Starbucks on Racine and Wrightwood at 6:38 a.m. Tuesday.
No time for Obama to play it safe
Barack Obama, elegant practitioner of political pragmatism, sounded passionless last week talking about guns. His careful tiptoeing after the Supreme Court's landmark decision overthrowing a Washington, D.C., handgun ban gave Republican John McCain the opening his wobbling campaign has been aching for.
Obama needs to launch dialogue on sexism
Carol Marin: Barack Obama's historic presidential race opened a new, crucial national dialogue on race. Now, he needs to do the same on gender. When Hillary Clinton introduces Obama to her big fund-raisers Thursday at a private gathering in Washington, D.C., followed by a joint public rally Friday in Unity, N.H., neither stagecraft nor symbolism will carry the day without a palpable sense of sincerity between these two titanic candidates.
Carol Marin: Barack Obama's historic presidential race opened a new, crucial national dialogue on race. Now, he needs to do the same on gender. When Hillary Clinton introduces Obama to her big fund-raisers Thursday at a private gathering in Washington, D.C., followed by a joint public rally Friday in Unity, N.H., neither stagecraft nor symbolism will carry the day without a palpable sense of sincerity between these two titanic candidates.
