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The $1.8 Million Driveway at Taxpayer Expense Editor: The City of Hancock is moving forward with constructing a road on a narrow easement between the DNR trail and the PLCA garages on the West end of Navy Street. The construction plans viewed by condo co-owners and townhouse residents showed a vertical, steel piling wall that would be used as a retaining wall for $750,000. That is a totally unacceptable retaining wall and will result in failure. The second alternative is an 18’ high concrete vertical retaining wall built without being tied into the 30-45 degree bank for an ...

Jamie Stiehm

Columns

WASHINGTON — Nobody home. Gone fishing. The lights are out in the federal government. The House of Representatives chamber is deserted and silent as a tomb. It's almost as if its Republican leaders don't care if the country is in crisis. While the president carries out a bloody plot to ...

Betsy McCaughey

Columns

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson went to court Monday to stop President Donald Trump from sending National Guard troops to the Windy City, calling mob violence against immigration officials a "flimsy pretext." Follow this closely, New Yorkers and residents of ...

Froma Harrop

Columns

Exactly why are the Democrats trying to save Republicans from a drubbing in the midterms? Their shutdown of the government to stop cuts in health coverage does not work to their political advantage — or ultimately help those they purport to be protecting. Republicans running for reelection ...

Daniel McCarthy

Columns

President Donald Trump loves a Sharpie pen, and now he has all the more reason to love the company that makes them. The president signed the flurry of executive orders he issued the day he returned to office with a Sharpie. He's used them for years, finding them more reliable than fancier ...

Clarence Page

Columns

When President Donald Trump dropped the bizarre suggestion last week that the military should use American cities as "training grounds" to fight what he called "an enemy within," it sounded almost like old news. After all, Trump has talked like this for years. "Don't take him literally," some ...