I was listening to the Morning Show on WMBD (it used to be the 3-D morning show, but they canned Doc and added Greg, so I don’t know what they call it now… the “G-D Morning Show,” perhaps?), and they were talking about the good old days when people used to be closer to their neighbors, [...]

Get your erasers out, everyone.  The court last week decided to erase “public” from the fifth amendment’s so-called “takings clause.”  If you get a chance, you should read the entire dissenting opinion, written by Justice Sandra Day OÂ’Connor.  It’s a masterpiece.  Here’s just a short quote, however that more or less summarizes the [...]

So, I haven’t been blogging for a few days.  No excuses.   Let’s see, Durbin apologized again after Mayor Daley took him to task for his comments.  He’s really sorry now, apparently.  The tears were a nice touch.   Congress restored the $100 million in funding that Republicans tried to cut from the Corporation for Public [...]

Well, Jackie’s birthday was last week.  She turned five.  She raked in the presents, just like Maggie did last month.  But, being older, she got one big present from her Mom and Dad:  a shiny, brand-new bicycle — with training wheels.  It’s a pink and purple Schwinn, and she loves it.   When I [...]

I took the family to Vonachen’s Old Place (VOP) last night for dinner, and let me tell you — the employees are b-i-t-t-e-r!  And who can blame them, since owners Mercedes Restaurants have given them a week’s notice that they’re closing for the summer.  Now that other businesses are done hiring for the summer [...]

In tribute to the great job Jonathan Ahl does on his WCBU program “Outside the Horseshoe,” the city council defeated a motion to move the council meeting start time back 15 minutes to 6:00.  That move would have caused the cancellation of Ahl’s much-liked interview program that airs every Tuesday night at 6:00 when there’s [...]

What hath man wrought–and how will man use his inventions? The law that I will sign shortly offers one answer to that question. It announces to the world that our Nation wants more than just material wealth; our Nation wants more than a “chicken in every pot.” We in America have an appetite [...]

Tonight is the Midwest League All-Star Game, which is in Peoria for the first time since 1992. It starts with a home-run derby at 6 p.m., followed by the first pitch at 7 p.m. Here’s the roster for tonight’s game. When the Chiefs played their first game at the new O’Brien Field, it was [...]