Columnists | Kankakee County

IEPA estimates the remediations have an average cost of $150,000 per site and said its Underground Storage Tank Fund holds more than $80 million as of April 7. Ignoring inflation, five projects per year means it would take 106 years to burn through the entire fund.

Back in the day, male politicians cavorted with their female staffers and got away with it. But that was way back and many days ago.
How are supposed to kids supposed to know what’s happening on their Chromebooks if they’re looking at their iPhones?

In this week's column, Toby Moore said gardening does not require a full set of tools nor a large plot of land, but rather desire.

Few love the idea of a central government database, state or federal, tying everyone’s everything into a single record.
What’s funny about growing up in a deaf family? Almost everything, if you ask Craig Gass, who was the only hearing member of his household.

Communion services are held twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall. Singing is usually done for the first hour or so.

Rose, who co-chairs the Legislative Audit Commission, dressed down DOC Director LaToya Hughes for helming an agency with 40 shortcomings in fiscal 2023 and 2024.

In this week's column, Dennis Marek writes that sorting through words to find truth can be a daunting task.


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