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It’s been a political clown show.

Unlike most others, this column is not about something that happened. It’s about something that’s happening before our very eyes. A work in progress: the destruction of the House of Representatives as a serious, credible, legislative body — unraveling in the context of this week’s embarrassing attempt by House Republicans to elect a new Speaker.

My phone is listening. Yours is, too, but you probably knew that.

While I hesitate to call the city that birthed me my hometown given the fact that I left when I was a week short of my seventh birthday when my father took a job transfer, for years, I had no problem reminding people that I was a Chicagoan in my earliest days.

“You may lose a limb, but you never thought you would lose a life.” — Michael Irvin

As the year 2022 comes to a close and 2023 begins, it’s the time of year where we reflect on the various scams that have affected our community. Unfortunately, some scams are all too common and continue to plague us year after year. However, by learning from our past experiences, we can work towards preventing these scams from happening in the future.

Most of us would not buy a car without either personally or professionally investigating the condition and history of the car.

Earmarks are back, and they’re costing American taxpayers a bundle.

In a world increasingly on fire, there is never a shortage of information about anything and everything. This generates a significant amount of curiosity and can lead us to compile a substantial number of questions that are pondered, yet frequently unanswered. The following 20 questions are among those I hope to have explained in 2023.

What’s a mountain, what’s a molehill? It’s getting pretty hard to tell in American media.