McGrath: Why it’s worth listening to all those old stories from ‘back in the day’
For the second session of the college English class I teach in the fall semester, I met my students in the computer lab for writing practice. But we also had...
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McGrath: Scrappy 1959 Sox pennant-winning team captured love of fans who saw themselves in their cast of characters
The memory is so vivid it's like turning on a DVD player in my head. That's because in my nine years on planet Earth at the time, it was the...
Commentary: America’s workers: proud, resourceful, underappreciated
At my 16th birthday party on a long-ago July day, Uncle Eddie called me away from the grill where my father was cooking burgers, to say I was old enough...
Column: COD’s decision to hire 160 instructors to apparently thwart contract talks doesn’t say much for school’s new president
Talk about a bonanza in job vacancies! College of DuPage has recently advertised 162 job openings. Under "Jobs" on the home page of the school's website, there is one of...
McGrath: Memories come flooding back when old, barely-used shotgun sold
Because 20 million guns are bought and sold in this country every year, it's a fairly routine transaction. But last week, when I sold my shotgun, it was an event...
Commentary: The freedoms we must not take for granted on Independence Day
I filled the gas tank of my SUV, packed a cooler with Gatorade, a bag of trail mix and six hard-boiled eggs, and I set out on a journey of...
McGrath: This July 4, think about the rights we take for granted and vow to protect them when it comes election time
I filled the gas tank of my SUV, packed a cooler with Gatorade, a bag of trail mix and six hard boiled eggs, and set out on a journey of...
McGrath: Everyone has an opinion and the right to disagree is an American privilege so why are we so thin-skinned about it?
If this newspaper ran a column today explaining why the New England Patriots have the best chance of winning the Super Bowl next year and the Chicago Bears would be...
McGrath: Biden probably the only Dem out there capable of putting Trump in his place
Former Vice President Joe Biden represents the best chance to pry Donald Trump out of the Oval Office, primarily because Biden would be his most formidable opponent in a televised...
McGrath: It’s the little moments along the way — not the actual holiday — that make a Father’s Day
One of my favorite fatherly recollections was when my 6-year-old daughter Jackie came home from 1st grade and unloaded her backpack onto the kitchen table: A box of crayons, a...