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Colorado theater to reopen — but father of one shooting victim won’t be there
The Colorado movie theater where 12 people were shot to death six months ago will reopen this week after a ceremony to pay homage — some would say lip service — to the victims and their families....
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We can’t put off tougher gun laws any longer
President Barack Obama’s speechwriters nailed it Wednesday, at least for me, with two little sentences. “This is our first task as a society, keeping our children safe. This is how we’ll be judged,”...
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Brown: Firing of teacher a lesson in free speech limits
It will be a terrible shame if the best day of Elizabeth Parsons’ fledgling teaching career also turns out to have been her last. But barring some divine intervention from the powers that be, that’s...
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Brown: Obama can (and must) do better
President Barack Obama embarked Monday on a second term that frankly needs to be better than his first. That’s not a Republican talking. That’s a Democrat who has voted for our former senator from...
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Cubs deserve break on Wrigley Field rehab, since they’re giving taxpayers one
The Chicago White Sox and Bears each play in stadiums constructed with taxpayer dollars. The Bulls and Blackhawks both play in a sports palace that was privately built but enjoys a property tax break...
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So simple: Stop feeding the pigeons
Herbert “Bud” Govert Jr., the Indiana man who has been rounding up pigeons from Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood, likes to keep it vague about what happens to the birds when he gets them home. Does he...
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Neighbors and Cubs battle over digital billboards on Wrigley Field rooftops
Erecting digital billboards on rooftops around Wrigley Field will junk up the neighborhood. But so what? The buildings across the street from the ballpark have been butt-ugly since the once quaint...
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Brown: Congressional hopeful Toi Hutchinson’s NRA answers off target
In accepting Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s endorsement for Congress, Sen. Toi Hutchinson said Monday she hopes to bring to Washington the same “refreshing brand of straight talk” for...
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99-year-old bedbug expert has ideas on how to deal with pigeons, too
If Chicago aldermen are serious about ridding the city of bedbugs, they ought to consider consulting with Anna Easter, proprietor of N&L Pest Control in West Humboldt Park. I can’t promise them...
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Corruption takes a hit as voters raise expectations
Former Gov. George Ryan came home from prison Wednesday to an Illinois that I would argue is less politically corrupt than the one he last governed 10 years ago. I’m talking about incremental as...
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Brown: UNO gearing up its own political machine involving charter schools
My first encounter with the political machinery of the United Neighborhood Organization Charter Schools network came last spring when I was poking around in an Illinois House race on the Southwest...
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Is city ready to be free of Shakman case?
Every indication is that this is the year Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration will try to extricate the city once-and-for-all from its 43-year federal court entanglement known as the Shakman case.
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Quinn’s speech aims to make case for re-election
With two potential heavyweight Democratic primary contenders threatening to seek his title, it probably should have come as no surprise Wednesday that Gov. Pat Quinn turned his annual State of the...
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MARK BROWN: First Lady, other dignitaries pack Hadiya’s funeral, but teen’s...
The concern going into Saturday’s funeral of 15-year-old murder victim Hadiya Pendleton was that it would be hijacked by the politicians for their own purposes. Thankfully, nothing of the sort...
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Brown: President Obama needs to bring some money with his speech
Community organizers who work with Chicago communities impacted by violence won’t complain if President Barack Obama uses his speech here Friday to talk up his ideas for gun control. But they’re bound...
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Brown: A vote on guns might be simple, our treatment of violence isn’t
For a while Tuesday evening, it appeared the bizarre saga of former Los Angeles policeman gone rogue Christopher Dorner might actually pre-empt coverage of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union...
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Brown: Don’t be fooled by the shrugs at one South Side school, closing...
When a school is slated for closing, you expect the parents to be upset. If nothing else, they know it’s going to be a disruption for them and their children. But I heard surprisingly little of that...
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Brown: Jackson Meteor also crashed Friday
We often speak in terms of someone having a “meteoric rise,” but as events in Russia and Washington, D.C., clearly demonstrated Friday, “meteoric fall” would be much more appropriate. The crashing and...
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