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- The bleak future of the Internet May 1, 2006
- You bet your life (insurance) April 17, 2006
- Apocalypse Now April 3, 2006
- Plenty of good questions, not many answers
- Our tuition dollars at waste
- Bermuda, Bahama … Columbia?
- Oprah’s self-righteous book club
- Alito’s qualified and confirmed—deal with it
- New life in death penalty debate
- A true Columbia pioneer
- Our national ‘Parks’
- Chicago gets painted black
- Will NHL’s return finally generate interest?
- Lower-class genocide on the Bayou
- ‘Plan B’ deserves better
- New food bank location means more opportunities to aid hungry
- Ideological battle brewing in Kansas
- If you eat just nuts, do you become just nuts?
- Sticky solution to clear problem
- Eliminating ‘the diaper’ from the Senate
- Rush to an end in Schiavo case April 4, 2005
- To share or not to share? March 14, 2005
Gun owners and librarians are not exactly two groups that regularly unite on hotly debated issues, but the two factions of both the far right and far left ends of the political spectrum are agreeing in the debate about “net neutrality.”
In my first grade-classroom, I made the decision one day to see how far a small, white button I had found could be inserted into my left ear. It remained lodged in my canal for more than a decade, and as each doctor I received a checkup from every year thereafter said absolutely nothing about it, my faith in the American health care system diminished.
While the cataclysmic force of global warming might make for an entertaining Jake Gyllenhaal motion picture, we’d prefer Mother Nature unloading on us to remain purely fictional.
I doubt anybody would enjoy having to go before an audience of college students and try to explain to them why they shouldn’t have the concerns they do, but I left the Ferguson with probably just as many questions as I had when I entered.
If Columbia did save any money on the expenditure, the amount is irrelevant. The product the college received at the expense of the college’s funds is the equivalent of the administration setting a pile of cash on fire.
But why is Columbia occupying the Center for Black Music Research’s Alton Augustus Adams Music Research Institute, located in St. Thomas? (Yes, in the U.S. Virgin Islands.)
Naturally, many simple minds jumped on Winfrey’s side and applauded her for essentially saving face.
Let’s just call it what it is: the world’s longest, most boring job interview.
Additionally, many studies have indicated that it actually costs taxpayers more money—more than $1 million per case—for the process of sending somebody to death than it does to incarcerate them for life.
The Chronicle, the Journalism Department and Chicago journalism as a whole are forever indebted to the contributions of Les Brownlee, who died at the age of 90 on Nov. 21. Brownlee had been fighting to live since being diagnosed with cancer in April, but he had been fighting his entire life to break down racial barriers and make a difference in his community.
Rosa Parks did not become an icon in the Civil Rights movement simply by coincidence; she was actively striving for equality nearly all of her life.
Not since we were spoiled with the Bulls’ dynasty of the 1990s has Chicago had this sort of adrenaline rush.
Oddly enough, the first thing that came to my mind upon learning of the passing of Ronald Reagan on June 5, 2004, was the fate of hockey.
Katrina ripped apart New Orleans and, with it, the notion of a fun-loving party city filled with drunken girls flashing breasts for party beads. Instead, looting and lawlessness furthered a stereotype that sees impoverished blacks as synonymous with violence.
The advisers had voted 23 to 4 to approve over-the-counter sales of Plan B, but less than five months later, the FDA ignored its own experts and retained the prescription-only status.
After the Food Marketing Institute Show at McCormick Place in early May, 24 tractor-trailers showed up at the Greater Chicago Food Depository with 216,723 pounds of unused food. That’s the equivalent of 162,950 meals, or enough to feed the entire city of Rockford for one day—and it was all earmarked for a good cause.
Nothing stimulates a debate quite like having only one side participate.
The last people I want determining my dinner menu are animal-rights activists.
Who better to determine the solutions to our nation’s energy crisis than industry lobbyists? Well, nobody, according to the House of Representatives.
Thurmond’s filibuster was the longest in the Senate’s history, and while it’s another example of some of the crazy things our elected officials are willing to do, what the GOP is hoping to do with the process these days is especially deranged: Ban it.
Schiavo’s eyes are open, but those of her supporters are not. Years of court rulings have been drowned out with denial. So too has the sad truth of doctors saying there is no hope for recovery.
For years now, consumers have repeatedly heard that copying artistic works basically equals stealing directly from the artists.
