Time to mothball Confederate monuments
— August 23, 2017Robert E. Lee wasn’t a Nazi, and surely would have had no sympathy for the white supremacist goons who made his statue a rallying point in Charlottesville, Va. That doesn’t…
Robert E. Lee wasn’t a Nazi, and surely would have had no sympathy for the white supremacist goons who made his statue a rallying point in Charlottesville, Va. That doesn’t…
The first thing to know about the instantly infamous “anti-diversity screed” written by a Google software engineer is that it isn’t anti-diversity or a screed. The…
At the beginning of my reporting career, I covered a federal judge hearing a civil suit against National Guardsmen several years after the Kent State killings. The judge refused to…
Unused for decades and with no practical agricultural use, a 24-foot-long steam-powered tractor found in a northern Wisconsin barn seemed destined for rust and ruin. But members of…
The Boone County Fair is said to be the largest in the state and Illinois Country Living called it one of the best around. So fair organizers — the Boone County Grange —had a lot…
What does President Trump have against my grandfather? Were he alive today, my grandfather never would pass muster of the immigration bill the President is supporting. That bill would…
ROCKORD RPS approves labor contracts with two unions The Rockford School Board has approved an agreement with two of its labor unions: AFSCME Local 692 (paraprofessionals) and AFSCME…
THROUGH AUG. 22 Nature Kids – Free Nature Programs Nature at The Confluence Environmental Learning Center 306 Dickop St., South Beloit weekly at 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Tuesdays This…