“As the Fourth Estate, you must stand up for the truth!” a woman urged me earlier this week.  At issue was a cellphone text her elderly mother had received from the office of Sen. Roger…

What if you were told you had a year to live? Life coaches sometimes pose questions like this to help folks figure out what’s truly important to them. But for me, this isn’t a theoretical…

When a group of officers burst into my cell at 3 a.m. on July 28 and told me to get up and get ready in 10 minutes, my first thought was that I was going…

For over a century, Johnson County residents voted for Republican presidential candidates.    Even during periods of Democrat strength, including Franklin Roosevelt’s landslide victory in 1932 and Lyndon Johnson’s overwhelming triumph in 1964, the county…

It’s rare — miraculously rare — that a drug can have such a pronounced effect that its immediate benefits translate into health care savings for years, even decades. To the wonder drugs Harvoni and Sovaldi,…

The victims fill the left third of the gallery, on the side of the courtroom behind the prosecutor. They were shareholders in the bank, individuals whose investments ranged from the modest to the substantial, but…

I was expecting a party Thursday night. I can wait. For all the hype about Vice President Kamala Harris bringing joy to the presidential campaign, she was all business in her acceptance speech, drawing the…

CHICAGO — The cardinal rule of football, or being a vice presidential candidate, is don’t do anything that hurts the team.  And Coach Tim Walz showed Wednesday night that he can run that play to…

After a wild few weeks, the top of the ticket is once again set for Democrats and Republicans. Polls show Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are neck and neck. Over the…

CHICAGO — There are fake champions and there are real ones. And you’ll never see the difference clearer than when you compare Hulk Hogan’s shirt-ripping act at the Republican National Convention to Steve Kerr’s appearance…