Moran: Waukegan mayor’s race heating up toward the boiling point
It can be said that spring has not arrived in Lake County until high school baseball is played on a raw, 35-degree afternoon or the smell of fresh, steaming asphalt...
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Moran: Lake County Forest Preserves district makes small plans to go big
True, the devil is in the details. Ask anyone who has signed a car-rental agreement without checking for a per-mile rate. But sometimes the benefits are buried in the details...
Moran: Balancing the ecosystem after beavers came ‘back from the brink’
Walk around a Lake County Forest Preserve — or really anywhere in this county of lakes — and you'll see a sight that is sometimes alarming but also fascinating and...
Moran: Time for drivers to weigh in about improving Grand and Hunt Club
It isn't hard to picture the future at the intersection of Hunt Club Road and Grand Avenue, also known by its ancestral name of Route 132: At some point in...
Moran: Debating whether or not to take your kid to see the R-rated ‘Logan’
So "Logan" came out the other day, setting up a decision that would make me either an enlightened, progressive parent or one that should be burned at the stake. Basically,...
Moran: Mulling the numbers in Cunningham’s (relative) landslide victory
First, let's review what wasn't surprising about last week's still-uncertified but realistically final result in the Waukegan Democratic primary: Turnout was down. Again. Actually, check that. Even though the 9.1...
Moran: A sort-of fond farewell to the winter that wasn’t
It snowed in Lake County on Dec. 16. And again on Dec. 17. On Dec, 18, it was a week until Christmas, the morning temperature was minus-10 degrees and calf-deep...
Moran: This ‘La La Land’ is your land this Oscar weekend
As fate or economics dictated, "La La Land" was playing at The Catlow Theater in Barrington last weekend, one week before an Oscar night that the neo-retro homage to the...
Moran: Patient motorists might be key to addressing pedestrian fatalities
Last weekend's spectacularly unusual April-in-February weather found this expatriate North Sider stretching beyond his boundaries, exploring the South Side past the point where mighty Lake Shore Drive winnows down to...
Moran: Reminisce Session will bring Grayslake Outdoor more or less back to life
The Grayslake Outdoor Theatre — a central Lake County institution for no less than a half-century — has been gone so long at this point that the Blockbuster Video that...