Follow the Money, Eat Cake, or Cap Your Salary
Follow the money, they say, and you’ll find… well, you know. Corruption. Excess consumption. Absolute control. Or as in the […]
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Sports
Figure Out the Give & Get of Christmas Now
I can still see it. Red, shiny, waiting. Down the steps on a snowy Christmas morning just outside of Chicago
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Family
How to Be Happy Stuffing a 2025 Thanksgiving Turkey & Your Shrink
You don’t need a shrink. Wait, what? OK… if you already see a therapist, please continue. For others, this is
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Faith, U.S.
In a Second Life & Death Marine Decision
Dad told his WWII life and death story with a certain reserve in his voice. His memory was sharp and
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U.S.
Dodgers Are The New Yankees & Trouble Awaits
The Los Angeles Dodgers won another World Series and a famous player quote has never been more true. “You don’t
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Sports
Will Call or Smart Phone at The World Series?
Twenty years ago today, we were speeding up the interstate… Carolina to Chicago with World Series tickets waiting at Will
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Sports
Belief in a Bubble, Rock, Island?
“I am a rock, I am an island,” wrote Paul Simon. Interesting lyrics and tune from yesteryear, but probably not
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Faith
It’s The Hate – An Equal Opportunity Killer
It matters not whether you are left or right, red or blue, or somewhere in between. Hate is an equal
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U.S.
How To Read The 2025 Room With Urgency
What a difference four or five years makes. Five years ago, we were in the throes of a pandemic that
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Coach
Innocent Until He’s Not… It’s Your Call
What you and eleven others learn first-hand and quickly in a felony trial is that distinct difference between “innocent” and
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Life
Live Easy In The (Jury) Pool
First time experiences cannot be replicated. Because they are the first. And first is a one-time deal. Many have traveled
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Life
How To Save The Summer… And More
There’s something about the end of summer. For starters, it now comes sooner… or so it seems. Remember when summer
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Faith
Send The Big Man In
World Series Championships don’t come around very often, especially in Chicago. That’s true whether you’re a North or Southsider… the
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Sports
Semiquincentennial – Men in Wigs Got It Right?
It’s hard to imagine the American founding fathers concerned themselves with the thought of a Semiquincentennial a couple of centuries
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U.S.