Moran: 2017 flood survivors prepare to match or exceed stories from 1986
Like your teenage son who is growing up on LeBron and Steph Curry asking you to regale him with memories of Michael Jordan and the Bulls Dynasty, children living through...
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Moran: Want a school cellphone policy? Put the students in charge
Imagine this problem in 1977: Parents want their children to have phones on them at school ... so they purchase two miles worth of line cord and send the kids...
Moran: Lake County road projects re-open after taking a holiday/impasse week off
When it comes to the Great Illinois Budget Impasse of 2015-17, it is all over but the shouting, which continues unabated and as expected. Also among the sounds sweeping across...
Moran: Record-setting travel expected over ‘extended’ Fourth of July weekend
It could be taken as bad news that the Fourth of July falls on a Tuesday this year, bringing an end to three consecutive years of three-day weekends created by...
Moran: Everybody panic (again) about looming (or not) IDOT construction shutdown
Stop me if you've read this before from your Illinois Department of Transportation: "We have started to inform our industry partners that all of our projects in both construction and...
Waukegan native picked to represent UW-Parkside students on new diversity council
It's about 20 miles down Sheridan Road from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside campus in Kenosha to Waukegan, but Corey Hoskins says the distance has never kept him separated from his...
A look back at the TV dads who put the Father in Father’s Day
Nearly 20 years ago — when I was a father of one and not my eventual three, and most of the TV dads of my youth were still alive in...
Moran: Waukegan beach weekend-parking fee turns up the heat
After Marilyn Monroe as Sugar observed that she liked her music "real hot," Tony Curtis as Josephine offered a response worthy of a film title. "I guess some like it...
Moran: A look back on the week that turned the tide in the Pacific War
It is nothing short of mind-blowing to consider everyday life in Lake County 75 years ago this week, which brought with it a mix of routine life north of Chicago...
Moran: Is Waukegan’s old lakefront water tower untouchable?
The postponement of landmark status for a relic of Waukegan's industrial past reminded me that this week marks 30 years since the release of "The Untouchables," Brian De Palma's cinematic...