Opinion: Widow Brittney Ramos: ‘Every person ... failed him. This cannot happen to another family’

Opinion: What should be done about the high price of gas?

Opinion: We need to have state laws in place that provide a clearly defined set of rules for how to respond to a pandemic.

Opinion: This being an election year and all, perhaps spines will stiffen and we can get some more significant ethics laws in Illinois. We’re not holding our breath.

Opinion: The Ukraine is 5,000 miles from northern Illinois, but from the response our communities have had to Russia’s invasion of the county last week it might as well be next door.

Our View: The lessons our children are learning this week have nothing to do with education, and more to do with the worst of the worst of politics.

We are two years into this pandemic and the reason we are heading into a third year with COVID-19 cases still at record levels is because a contingent of our citizens just won’t listen to simple logic.

Winners compete and work to improve their game, and they make many personal sacrifices. But in the end, they share their success with several who helped them along the way.

The governor’s office this week urged eligible Illinoisans to get COVID-19 booster shots and called on skilled nursing facilities to make them available to patients and staff by Thanksgiving.