Opinion

Just sit back there folks and imagine the glory of a Summer without students and nothing but beer and sunburns. Coulter is already there.

Coulter maintains his theme of speaking of canines, but this time, it's not his own. Thank. God.

A Water-Pic has multiple purposes, especially if you're attacked daily by a dog on your paper route. Plus, how to make homemade yogurt.

They should be ashamed of themselves!

After years of troubled U of I Presidents, Jason proposes a radical change to the job description and the hiring process.

Michael McMahon, who's suing the News-Gazette for defamation over a prank letter-to-the-editor, runs a school affiliated with an anti-Semitic group, the SSPX.

And by lucky, we mean exactly that.

Should Coulter get another dog? Or simply tie one on come Friday night? That's the question, friends.

Andrew calls for higher standards from his local, government-owned, Amtrak service.

Say what you will about the start of baseball season. It gives you and me and Coulter a chance to drink for absolutely no reason.

In which Mike discusses the charm of a Hamms hat and the wretchedness of the DMV.

What is it to come back from a vision quest without anything to show? An autobiography overdue.

Why doesn't Coulter like Santorum? Can you win in a poker game called “Screw your neighbor”? Find out inside.

Andrew talks about that sweet heat we've been having and the “scientists” researching our climate change.

After eight years at some other publication, Mike Coulter returns to his roots with a new column with an old name at the right place. Things are right with the world. Kind of.

Voters in Champaign County went to the polls yesterday to vote in a candidate that wasn't running, a candidate who may not even live here, and a 90-year old curmudgeon. It's good to be alive in America.

A debilitating illness leads to literary hopscotch.

Andrew tries to “bum” cigarettes from some high-schoolers to no avail. Here he talks truth and smoking.

Maybe it's time to take a day off. From everything.

Andrew calls Cormac McCarthy a “big damned sis,” ponders “The Singularity,” nanobots and more all thanks to his Siri.

David Gill has had his chances. Let's nominate someone who can beat Tim Johnson.

The Illini Media Company is a local institution worth saving, but we are less-than-impressed with many of its current attempts to secure funding.

Andrew says “'green' is largely out of style.” His latest piece weighs in on our candidates' approaches to the giant ball on which we live.

A tale of a private jet, a cellophane plant, a male nurse doing breakthrough research in a barn, and the boom economy that brought them together, but eventually tore them apart.

The USPS is proposing to close both on-campus post office locations, a move that would (by its own admission) save it no money. What gives?

Jason Brown addresses an open letter to President Hogan, the University administration, alumni, and friends of the University everywhere, calling for the first step on the road to Illinois' image recovery: consequences and accountability.

Andrew says that love is an untapped resource that needs to be privatized. And he knows that Mitt Romney is just the man to do it.

Jason happens upon a fancy car with Ayn Rand-supporting plates. And that gets him thinking about the myth of the self-made man.

Dylan recounts his casual walk home being held up at gunpoint on a seemingly mundane Tuesday night in Urbana.

Literary critic and journalist Christopher Hitchens has died at the age of 62. Andrew Voris recaps his run-in with Hitchens back in 2007. God, whiskey and war ensues.

What if the leaked CPD squad-car video were reviewed as if it were a movie? Wonder no more.

This year many stores are opening their doors earlier on Black Friday, and many people may forget what is really important about this holiday.

On November 3, Darin Mitchell was convicted of Resisting a Peace Officer for an incident that occurred in June at an American Legion in Champaign.

Start with coyote cubs at 4 a.m., and deconstruct your way home from there.

With over 7,000 in attendance, Kid Cudi and Girl Talk put on one of the larger outdoor concerts in Champaign-Urbana’s history last Thursday. One problem: it was WAY too loud.

Local law students become involved with an affiliate of the Innocence Project, an organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted inmates and reforming our justice system.

Stream of consciousness while on the paper route.

Many central Illinois residents, including myself, are very excited about the newly drawn 13th United States Congressional District because its politically diverse characteristics make us a swing district. For the first time in a very …

An intriguing read from one of the more audacious and lively characters in recent pop culture memory, The McColley dives in deeper.

A heartfelt letter too important not to publish, local writer and teacher Safiya Umoja Noble tells the Urbana Business Association straight up — this type of thing simply won’t wash.

The City of Urbana, in conjunction with a series of articles in the News-Gazette, appears to be attempting to remove local homeless man Bill from downtown.

The passage of time, as measured through country newspaper delivery customers.

Neal agrees with the right: America is exceptional. That’s where the agreement ends, however.

As the political landscape becomes less tethered to reality, Neal attempts to inject some context.

Comparing and contrasting the last two winners of the Palme d’Or, both of which attempt to show rather than tell.

SP’s Robert and Tracy go Crossfire on hate crimes. Expect screaming, baseless assertions, and maybe thrown furniture.

The economy’s bad, but further cuts to the social safety net will only make things worse.

The absolute madness invoked by new state health insurance contracts is just further evidence of how broken our health care system is. But so what?