Ever since the Soviet Union split up and Russia has fallen into disarray, some Americans, intent on finding the next nuclear bogeyman, have looked to China to fill us with fear of a holocaust. They are communist and fully armed after all. But a brief visit to the campus of the University of Illinois at [...]

On Super Bowl Sunday, I’ll be rooting for the New England Patriots to complete their perfect season and bring the people of Bean Town another championship. It’s not that I am exceptionally fond of Bostonians, no more so than I am of the citizens of any other of our nation’s fine cities. It’s just that, [...]

Here’s my problem. The public school shake-up seems quite the story right now, but I don’t know what to think about it.
My kids go to parochial schools so I know little about the players involved or what the restructuring will mean for the district. I do know it was done in response to not meeting [...]

Those of you who have tuned-in to the NFL playoffs this season may have noticed that the folks at Anheuser-Busch are taking a new approach in promoting their flagship brew.
In the past, Budweiser was content on being known as a “beer,” an everyman libation for people who want to get drunk without being bothered by [...]

For all of you Wilco and Son Volt fans: a bit of your past. I’m proud to say that I was an early adopter of the alt-country sound. I can remember the day in 1990 when, on a road trip to Chicago, my friend Rick put in a tape made by his Belleville brothers. As [...]