In 1974, I had the good fortune to be hired as a first grade teacher at Meister Elementary in River Forest. It began a 15-year love affair with the River Forest community as I eventually became superintendent in 1984. I…
My favorite section of The Times is hidden away in the Classifieds section on the page titled “Advice and Puzzle Page”!
Buddhist monks vow to abandon attachments to most everyday things, including money. They walk around the community at mealtime holding a bowl, begging for food and donations for the monastery.
Getting Medicare costs under control is a full-time job. It’s a big, urgent public health problem. But a bad solution isn’t better than none at all and some proposed cost-cutting measures could end up doing much more harm than good.
NASHVILLE, Ind. – Indiana now has a hate crimes law.
If one needed evidence of the gross ignorance of millennials, and their teachers and college professors, it’s their solid support for socialism and socialist presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders. Socialism has produced tragedy wherever it has bee…
With the impending Calumet Ave/45th Street construction, drivers need to be much more cautious and courteous in the neighborhoods selected as shortcuts or alternate routes.
Sometimes, during my drive to work, I listen to Clarence Maurice Mitchell IV, host of the Baltimore’s WBAL C4 radio show. Mitchell was formerly a member of Maryland’s House of Delegates and its Senate. In recent weeks, Mitchell has been…
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A headless Anibal Troilo, one of the tango’s greatest performers, rests on a seat holding his concertina. Beside him, tango singer Alberto Castillo smiles, though he lacks arms.
During a meeting at Portage High School on April 10, I experienced a situation that no superintendent wants to endure.