The current debate over increasing class sizes in Chicago Public Schools is just another example of the Chicago school district and its teachers posturing and threatening, while students suffer.

Some experts and policymakers believe our country could do more to prevent problems before they occur.

Most of the crime statistics that are reported for the City of Chicago tend to focus on crimes against our young people. They usually point out that both the victims and the perpetrators of violent crime tend to be under 40 years old, many of them in their teens.

The Memorial Day break is over and it’s time for Congress to immediately fix the 21.3 percent cut in Medicare payments to physicians that took effect June 1.

Please, we have to do all we can for these animals. They are part ofthis world, and were here long before we arrived. They are defenseless and need our help, to get their homes back, and to get cleaned and fixed up.

In the life of our nation, there are few more sacred places than our national cemeteries – around the world, at Arlington and our national cemeteries across the country.

The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is turning out to be one of the worst environmental disasters on record. The leak is spewing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf, threatening wildlife, the fishing industry and jobs.

What happened to Mr. and Mrs. Gaston is very sad. Unfortunately, there is no foreseeable way their accident could've been prevented without the intervention of family and/or friends.

The question becomes, what will it take?

More than 300 concerned community residents attended a recent Town Hall Meeting on the West Side to discuss the proposal to deploy the Illinois National Guard in Chicago. Many described how crime and unemployment are affecting their families.