Charles Selle

1 week ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

With turmoil all around in recent weeks, an escape to big league baseball is one way of calming fears of what the next three years in America may look like. It worked so well on the American psyche in past decades that the game became our national pastime. Along with that ballpark visit comes enjoying an all-American hot dog. Despite many major league teams pushing various sophisticated food offerings, the classic red hot remains the most popular game-day food for sports fans in Illinois.

2 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

Thousands of Lake Countians were on the march over the weekend to protest what’s been happening as the administration of President Donald Trump enters its fourth month. Most were ordinary Americans, not wild-eyed left-wingers as all the president’s men would have us believe. Indeed, many hadn’t ever manned a picket line, but there they were, crowding around the busy intersection of Grand Avenue and Hunt Club Road in Gurnee, which is not exactly a hotbed of revolutionary fervor.

2 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

As Dick Durbin huddles with his family and allies to determine his political future, one name should be in the mix to convince him to seek re-election to another Senate term: Donald Trump. With chaos abounding in Washington, D.C., and spreading westward, the state’s senior senator is needed more than ever to corral an out-of-control executive branch. In this perilous era, there’s no time for on-the-job training in the nation’s capital.

3 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

Apparently, we’ve cracked the Nigerian prince code and cons promising us romance. Swindlers have now moved on with phony dodges using the nation’s tollway system as an unwilling partner. Perhaps you are among those who have received unsolicited texts allegedly from tollway folks saying you have an “outstanding balance” in your E-ZPass account. These chiselers, perhaps those renowned Russian bad actors, are now scrapping the bottom of the barrel with this latest fraud trying to steal identities.

3 weeks ago | chicagotribune.com | Charles Selle

Moving into April, one may have a touch of spring fever, or a bout of depression over the direction things are moving. Many Americans have that frazzled feeling that their lives may be getting worse, not the “golden age” we were promised mere months ago. Consumer confidence is down. Prices, excluding food and energy, rose at a higher-than-expected annual rate of 2.8% in February, the Federal Reserve reported on Friday. Market indexes have fallen sharply as inflationary trends rise.