I love to say I told you so, which makes sharing the lead sentence fun: “Gambling is going to expand Illinois, and if you think Gov. Pat Quinn is going to do anything to stop it, you haven’t been paying attention.”

I’m a man. I don’t fix things. I pay people to fix things, is what I do.

That moment when you start to believe in yourself is a turning point. I do think teachers, mentors and friends can be the game changers. They help us see who we are or are not. Sometimes better than we see ourselves.

On Monday, the panel clarified that the U.S. Attorney’s district office, under Andrew Boutros, could retry the case. Although the initial convictions were flawed, lawyers failed to show justification for outright acquittals

What the president should be doing is featuring people who have benefited from his policies and others who did not benefit from policies when Democrats ran the government.

It is the morning after a destructive tornado tore a path through the south and east sides of Streator, leaving some with no homes, and all in a state of shock.

The contradiction reminds there’s a large gap between the accomplishment of a grant award and the optimistic press release from a lawmaker who “secured the funding” and the day the check actually clears and concrete plans can take effect.

It is one thing to name airports, bridges and other public works after the handful of great presidents who saved the country. It’s another to similarly memorialize ordinary politicians for posterity, even those who did a mostly good job.

The future isn’t there to hammer you. It’s a rolled-up carpet that unfolds an inch at a time. Don’t punish yourself for not having the entire floor already covered. The joy is in the reveal.

I’m very much guilty of identifying as “not a math person” or, as written in September, an “English major who can’t help his sons with their math homework once they reach middle school.”

Sunday marked the 249th anniversary of the establishment of the official American flag, which was created by an act of the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777.

Suppose I told you that aging really is a state of mind. And it might be healthy to live in the past.

Maine Democrats have just chosen Platner to challenge five-term Republican Susan Collins in November.

That said … real fixes aren’t possible without extra money, either, otherwise the problems probably wouldn’t persist. And so it’s back to the beginning: absent additional spending, no improvements will be sufficient.

Management canned Scott Pelley for doing the hard thing, which was the right thing, as it almost always is.

In early June, French economist Thomas Piketty and his team unveiled a comprehensive program for global managed decline dressed up in the language of climate justice and equality.

Lawmakers should not overlook a proven tool that has quietly delivered results for more than two decades: the Illinois Affordable Housing Tax Credit.

To the extent these bills placate either of the competing interests at this juncture – or even after all the audits are released and scrutinized – everything is subject to change if or when Congress changes the tools in the box.