Biography
In other pursuits, Byrne has served as a freelance writer and consultant, a blogger for ChicagoNow, a regular contributor to various e- ...
Sara Lee should move to honor Chicago's troops
December 13, 2011
For uncounted thousands of Chicago-area men, last week's announcement that Sara Lee Corp. was moving from Downers Grove to a West Loop office building meant something other than a story about Mayor Rahm Emanuel poaching suburban businesses.
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Holding Illinois hostage over tax breaks
December 6, 2011
If Ohio wants to shower Sears Holding Corp. with $400 million to lure the retailer away from Hoffman Estates, I say, "Fine, do it." And let Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) explain to his taxpayers why his state's bribe is four times greater than the $100 million that Illinois reportedly had offered.
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Best friends for ever and ever and ever
November 29, 2011
I first met Paul in fifth grade, about when he began smoking, drinking and messing with women.
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End the gripe fest
November 22, 2011
"Eat the rich."
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Quinn's quandary
November 15, 2011
Gov. Pat Quinn's planned appearance Thursday at the pro-choice Personal PAC annual awards luncheon is a sharp stick in the eye of his professed faith, and Illinois' Catholic bishops have every right to poke back.
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Will GOP presidential hopefuls fail to KO wobbly Obama?
November 9, 2011
To Dennis,
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A good mix: Cameras, speeders
November 1, 2011
… and among these unalienable rights are life, liberty and driving as fast as we damn well please.
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Living dirt poor
October 25, 2011
Occupy Chicago and other practitioners of those new and spreading protests want us to better understand and empathize with the poor.
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Should pensions be a top priority?
October 18, 2011
Illinois' biggest problem is the state budget; the budget's biggest problem is the plush pensions for public employees; lavish pensions are a problem because of a constitutional clause that bans the "diminishment or impairment" of their benefits.
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Disappearance of the frontier itch
October 4, 2011
In 1893, historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the American frontier had closed, raising an important question: Absent the frontier, what would fuel the audacious, inventive and energetic nature of the bold American character?
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Getting rich off carps
September 27, 2011
Word of Illinois' campaign to create a public taste for sauteed fillets and fried fish cakes made from bighead Asian carp has reached even the distant shores of Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where we are vacationing with gracious friends.
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Obama's budget mess and coming out on the side of bureaucrats
March 29, 2011
And now, a few sympathetic words for government bureaucrats.
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A proxy vote on Obama?
October 13, 2010
To Eric,
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ObamaCare can and must be repealed
October 5, 2010
Can ObamaCare, the most complex, far-reaching and epically destructive legislation enacted in living memory be repealed?
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The Obama seat and the rights of the voters
June 21, 2010
There's good news for Illinois: we might be able to retire Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., two months earlier than expected.
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Taking a hatchet to moderate government
March 30, 2010
Go ahead, attack promoters of moderate government. Paint them as flakes, kooks and goons. Call them unhinged and unglued. Toxic, mean-spirited, shrill and dangerous.