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Opinion
Blame it on the expressway, Pope tells Democrats
At the weekly meeting of the Democratic Party of Oak Park on May 11, state Sen. Don Harmon introduced David Pope, immediate past and two-term Oak Park village president, as "the first president to...
The arithmetic of death
On April 15, an explosion in Boston, Mass., killed three people. On April 17, an explosion in West, Texas killed 14 people. Both events were tragic and unexpected. The friends and families of all 17...
One View columns a healthy way for Oak Park board members to speak up
It was a curious discussion a week ago Monday as Oak Park's new village board and president sat down to talk about "board protocols." Some aspects of those board rules had to do with interacting with...
Oak Park's zombie TIF lives?
Well, a major development on the site of the Colt building parking lot isn't going to build itself. It's going to take sewers and sidewalks and all the various accoutrements that a retail and housing...
Journal's editorials
Books and a world view
It comes down to such an elemental difference in view about the role of public education — maybe especially in Oak Park — that it is inevitably a difficult conversation.
Campaign spending: Anan wanted it more
In a story we reported on OakPark.com Friday and which we expand in print today, Abu-Taleb raised $72,000 for his campaign, including $23,000 of his own money. That about tripled the $21,000 raised...
David Pope: a consequential president
You could make a list of what David Pope has accomplished in his 10 years of village board service — eight of those years as our village president. Or you could just ask Mr. Pope for his list...
Tackling the achievement gap
The achievement gap begins at birth. That is the simple truth. A child born into a family with scarce financial resources, limited history of educational attainment, and/or a less stable family...
Letters to the editor
Columns / One views
Children's bodies are not landfills
If you avoid phthalates and other chemicals for yourself and your children, then you might want a little heads-up about what will soon be installed at Ridgeland Common and could possibly be installed...
A tale from the generation gap
Last week, I was at cross country practice on a distance run. A police car drove by our team, and I looked into the window of his car and saw the officer with his smart-phone in his lap, texting as...
Equity in education must remain a priority
Two years ago in opposing a yes vote on the District 97 tax referendum, the Business and Civic Council of Oak Park (BCC) in various statements about teachers, test scores and salaries echoed the...
The arms 'conversation' needs more focus
The Second Amendment is comprised of one short but confusing sentence. It reads: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear...
Ken Trainor
How to be a better writer
As a newspaper editor for over 22 years, a newspaper columnist for over 28, and having written two books (more on that in a future column), I've been contemplating the craft of late. During the last...
The perils of typochondria
I'm a typochondriac. I wake up in the middle of the night wondering if I fixed that transposition of letters and whether I checked the spelling of "peripatetic." You might think such details are...
Slow dancing with a Midwest spring
Now that spring finally seems to have arrived (I'm keeping my fingers crossed), the following column, which first ran on April 15, 2009, deserves a reprise.
A night in our village
I don't get out enough during the week (a tale for another time), but I did just that last Wednesday night and, in the ensuing hours, rediscovered my village.
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