Grief and anger, like clouds of a coming storm, moved back and forth across the landscape of Mayor Daley's face in public appearances last week.
David Plouffe, Barack Obama's brilliant, wonky campaign manager, didn't want to talk about the dog.
It took some courage for U.S. Representatives Melissa Bean and Bill Foster to do what they did Saturday night in Washington DC. They provided two crucial votes for the president's controversial health-care reform package, which narrowly made it out of the U.S. House.
Carlos Hernandez Gomez is a reporter with attitude. Streetwise and smart, punky yet sweet. When Carlos walks into a news conference, he brings his own electricity.
If you want a snapshot of how the sausage is made in an election, it could be seen at 69 W. Washington Tuesday. That building houses both the Chicago and Cook County election boards.
Dawn Clark Netsch, the venerable voice of Illinois political reform, called early Friday morning even though it was going to make her late for a dentist's appointment. She was concerned I was going to get it wrong. That I was going to blast the Legislature for once again passing a watered-down, weak-kneed bill on campaign finance reform that they would hail as progress.
Scott Turow, the prolific, best-selling Chicago author, had a message for Illinois lawmakers the other day.
