Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon travels all summer long to American League cities, and offered his take on where he loves and dreads going for a ride. ...more

April 1, 2009

I found a great deal of interesting reading in the paper last week. I read that Steve Chapman is offering corn-fed Iowa some of Illinois' overabundance of indicted officials, as a bonus offering them Lake Michigan and a baseball team. I suppose every state could find some things it would be willing to offer, in a reasonable exchange! The whole country is in a meltdown. Another thing I read was the revelation that Floridians give President Obama high approval ratings. Now, I know that many of us are retirees on fixed incomes, and we are grateful for any freebies we can get, but are we willing to have them charged to our children and great-grandchildren? Who is going to pay these bills when they come due? A few trillion dollars would seem to be quite a chunk of change! ...more

February 24, 2009

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January 5, 2009

For the first time in more than 20 years, the organizers of the Harbor Fest musical festival in Racine, Wis., were forced to cancel their seminal event on the shores of Lake Michigan. ...more

July 9, 2008

NEW YORK - If you can't afford to go to Europe this summer but you're looking for some interesting places to visit close to home, check out Travel + Leisure's "50 reasons to love the U.S.A. now" in the magazine's July issue. ...more

July 6, 2008

It was midnight and the nation was still awaiting results from the Indiana primary, one of the biggest remaining prizes of the epic Democratic presidential battle between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois. ...more

May 8, 2008

BOYS SOCCER On a foggy and surreal night, Central took River Ridge to task, 6-3. ...more

January 14, 2008

One week and 20 years ago, the Philadelphia Eagles played the Bears in a playoff game in Chicago that was later coined the "Fog Bowl." Dense fog rolled off Lake Michigan allowing for 10-20 feet of visibility in a 20-12 Bear victory. ...more

January 14, 2008

A surfer rode a wave on his stomach to rescue a struggling dog that had been swept off a pier and into Lake Michigan by a wave. ...more

September 13, 2007