"It’s President Biden who is playing politics with the border and lies that it’s the Republicans in not passing the Border Act," Robert Meale of Crystal Lake writes in a letter to the editor.

Efficiency requires balancing competing interests. Lawmaker support of HB 4431 represents shifting priorities.

Cleaning up government requires diluting the authority of those who might peddle their influence.

Teamwork can be the difference between success and failure in many facets of life. That's true especially when one is dealing with a cancer diagnosis.

General Assembly Democrats drafted a bill that significantly reduces financial liability to modify the 2008 Biometric Information Privacy Act.

Wetlands clean our drinking water, hold and store rainwater and create nurseries and food sources, the McHenry County Conservation District writes.

Government is about working for the public. Politics is about perception.

"It seems that every time Donald Trump sits down for an interview, he reveals a bit more of what his plan for a fascist America will look like," Richard Keslinke of Algonquin writes in a letter to the editor.

"Voting only for party, prejudice or personality does not make one an active voter or a patriotic American," Donna Davis of Woodstock writes in a letter to the editor.