I love to say I told you so, which makes sharing the lead sentence fun: “Gambling is going to expand Illinois, and if you think Gov. Pat Quinn is going to do anything to stop it, you haven’t been paying attention.”

In this week's column, Dennis Marek writes in the season of graduation people should understand that adult life begins after gaining a diploma.

I’m a man. I don’t fix things. I pay people to fix things, is what I do.

On Monday, the panel clarified that the U.S. Attorney’s district office, under Andrew Boutros, could retry the case. Although the initial convictions were flawed, lawyers failed to show justification for outright acquittals

What the president should be doing is featuring people who have benefited from his policies and others who did not benefit from policies when Democrats ran the government.

In this week’s “A Taylor-Made Life,” Taylor Leddin-McMaster writes about the quick passage of time. She also invites readers to share their stories with her.

In this week's column, Toby Moore writes that while there is pressure to launch – not just rockets, but our lives – there are also reasons for a delay.

The contradiction reminds there’s a large gap between the accomplishment of a grant award and the optimistic press release from a lawmaker who “secured the funding” and the day the check actually clears and concrete plans can take effect.

It is one thing to name airports, bridges and other public works after the handful of great presidents who saved the country. It’s another to similarly memorialize ordinary politicians for posterity, even those who did a mostly good job.

The future isn’t there to hammer you. It’s a rolled-up carpet that unfolds an inch at a time. Don’t punish yourself for not having the entire floor already covered. The joy is in the reveal.

I’m very much guilty of identifying as “not a math person” or, as written in September, an “English major who can’t help his sons with their math homework once they reach middle school.”

The governor has a very good executive staff. But there’s no substitute for a present governor. Legislators are generally a needy bunch. They see him on national TV during session and wonder why he isn’t attending to them. That’s simple Statehouse reality and has been forever.

Maine Democrats have just chosen Platner to challenge five-term Republican Susan Collins in November.

That said … real fixes aren’t possible without extra money, either, otherwise the problems probably wouldn’t persist. And so it’s back to the beginning: absent additional spending, no improvements will be sufficient.

Management canned Scott Pelley for doing the hard thing, which was the right thing, as it almost always is.

In early June, French economist Thomas Piketty and his team unveiled a comprehensive program for global managed decline dressed up in the language of climate justice and equality.

In this week's column, Dennis Marek wonders way so many people opt to give up on marriage.

To the extent these bills placate either of the competing interests at this juncture – or even after all the audits are released and scrutinized – everything is subject to change if or when Congress changes the tools in the box.