In this world of reality TV and the self-absorbed, it was a wonderful respite to journey into the unreality and self-absorption of the Spinal Tap world on May 30 at the historic Chicago Theatre before the fictitious group headed to Milwaukee for the final stop.

The tour, which began...

A recent article in Editor and Publisher reports the number of reporters in newsrooms is down at a level not seen since the early 1980s. That hardly seems surprising since the so-called local newspapers have been swallowed up in recent years by greedy conglomerates like Gatehouse Media and we...

The last time I talked with Nathan Smith, a Kentucky superdelegate, he was not about to commit his support to either candidate.

With Kentucky's primary coming up on Tuesday, I asked him again whom he supports.

"I'm still uncommitted," he said. "I'm interested to see what the...

Superdelegate. Phoebe Crane of Indiana is one, and calls it "an unfortunate use of the term."

"You think of people flying around in capes or something and we really don't have any more powers," she said.

For me, that conjures up a vision of the 1960s cartoon

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There's a quiet death among us, and no one seems to notice.

"Journal Star leader says it's time to go," reads the headline.

That would be the Peoria Journal Star, one of hundreds of small and...