A top legislative budget negotiator last week said rank-and-file legislators will very soon have to come to terms with a state budget environment unlike anything many have ever seen before.

Follow me please. We’re taking a little walk through my house.

If Pritzker’s governance does start slipping because he’s running for higher office, I pledge to let my opinion be known. I will not stand for it. This state is far too important.

“Dodge and weave! Dodge and weave!” That’s me shouting my life advice for the day.

My love of books should be well known by anyone who knows me or reads these weekly chats. But today I want to share your love of books.

Senate Bill 1238 would make it easier for residents in Illinois to access nonopioid pain treatment options.

Sarah knew before the rest of us. But none of us expected how fast her fight would end.

Gov. JB Pritzker said last week that the extreme uncertainty with the U.S. government and the international economy might mean that the legislature may have to reconvene to reconfigure the state budget after it adjourns at the end of next month.

If I’m getting sentimental about libraries, I must start there, when I borrowed my first book.