The Blagojevich administration, not known for straight answers, is at it again.

State Rep. Gary Hannig, D-Litchfield, seems to think everything with the budget process in Illinois is just hunky-dory.

For an astounding expose this week, the Chicago Tribune dared to send reporters into unfamiliar, mysterious territory: Downstate Illinois.

If you have something made “on spec,” it’s likely to turn out the way you expected. However, if you invest in something “on spec,” it’s risky business.

Rather than red, white and blue, shall we celebrate purple on the Fourth of July? Specifically, the splendid royal purple of Michelle Obama's dress on the night her husband became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president of the United States.

It sometimes seems that every time we take a step forward in this country, we take two more back.

Chris Britt's editorial cartoon for Thursday, July 3.

The Village of Roses, a.k.a. La Grange Park, proudly took claim to its name at the 49th annual Rose Show, June 14. Despite the cool and wet spring we had, there were approximately 180 entries.

When Ryan Morrison stood up in the Riverside Presbyterian Church to announce that the Department of Theatre at the College of DuPage was in need of male voices, he had at least one baritone who was eager to sign for an audition. That baritone was Dr. Jay Van Cura, who had reached middle age with a voice that few had heard outside medical circles. But “the stage was calling,” and Van Cura was answering.

In honor of Independence Day, there are some truths I hold to be self-evident in the entertainment world where a pursuit of happiness takes a slight precedence over life and liberty.

A great lady to whom I owe much died recently.

Saturday was a wedding day like no other for two American soldiers. It was also a day like no other for a surprised Springfield church congregation, the members of which responded as if they were meant to be at the wedding, and perhaps they were.

Chris Britt's editorial cartoon for Wednesday, July 2.

In May 2003, USA Today reporter Toni Locy wrote a story that said the federal government might be unfairly targeting a government scientist as the primary suspect in the anthrax letters case that killed five people in 2001.

Did John Wayne ever get a wedgie? That popped through my bobbling head as I rode a horse for the first time in my life.