People are only limited in the amount they can earn by their talents, persistence, and a willingness to take reasonable risks.

In this week’s “A Taylor-Made Life,” Taylor Leddin-McMaster writes about hitting the point of burnout and slowly learning how to take things off the plate.

Registering to vote is neither required nor a guarantee of actually voting, which might be partly why political types are so comfortable with the phrase “publicly owned” referring to a specific government entity and not the constituents whom that entity technically represents.

Even though the country is still adding people at about replacement level, population alarmists are painting falling birthrates as an economic disaster in the making.

Government historians can explain how Illinois ended up with this timetable, but those recollections often explain only why it exists – not whether it’s the best approach.

If you spend too much of your life watching the crowd, eventually you stop asking what excites you, what moves you, and what feels true. You stop creating and start performing.

Lower prices for prescription meds are positive, right? Sure, except in this instance, the purpose of the discount is so that those facilities can profit when selling the medication to patients.

Every year when the legislature arrives at mid-May, it’s always tempting to look around, see the absence of real bicameral movement on legislation and conclude that nothing’s gonna happen in time for the scheduled May 31 adjournment.

My mother often told me that it takes many prayers to raise children. I treasure those words!