I hope you’re getting out and soaking in all the blessings of spring, as we are.

In Illinois, the first Earth Day in 1970 was celebrated from the largest cities to the smallest towns, especially in schools, as thousands of the state’s schoolchildren took the day to learn to help the planet.  

We don’t tell them there is an Easter bunny. They know we hide the eggs.

Voters often feel isolated from Washington, D.C., and Springfield. Math and distance make it inevitable. Being cut off from local officials is a choice, one we need not make.

We like to think that the fast pace of life these days and the changes wrought by the onset of the Information Age are unprecedented. But the nation has gone through other times of ch

By the time most of you read this week’s column, the somber remembrance of Good Friday will have given way to the mournful grief of Holy Saturday or the renewed hope of Easter Sunday.

White potatoes and sweet potatoes are not cousins. They are not even close friends.

School districts should conduct the most thorough background checks available when hiring new employees, columnist Tom Weitzel mantains

The working theory seems to be protecting earnest homeschoolers from red tape intended to entangle those who simply pull their kids from class and ignore them, or worse, but that raises two concerns.