Bob is a software professional residing in southwest Michigan, right across the Lake from the Windy City. For years, Bob has been critical of the growth government and its impact on its citizens. Contact him at bob@bobnightingale.com.
I look forward to sharing the holidays with my oldest son. He turns 19 a week before Christmas. He is really into his freshman college studies and may make academics his career. Unlike his old man, he tends to favor...
This week marks the 91st anniversary of the armistice of the “War to End All Wars”. It was declared on the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” in 1918. The actual end...
Voters in St. Joseph and Porter Counties voted on a proposal that would have create a regional transportation authority with the power to levy an income tax and expand rail and bus services from Hammond to South Bend. The language...
One of my morbid pleasures is to wake up on a Saturday morning to look at the FDIC website , so I can see how many banks failed this week. I wasn’t disappointed. For October 30, there are nine...
I watched a bit of the gay rights protests last Sunday on CSPAN-2 yesterday. Mrs. Shepard gave a short speech about her slain son. A labor leader said that he is now going to take up the cause of...
As a parent of five children, many of them now teen-agers, I’ve had to learn a basic survival skill—consistency. Whatever I do for the oldest, I can expect to do the same for the younger...
In keeping with the Examiner.com’s mission of reporting on local events by local experts, let me tell you what my neighbor is doing in Lansing in the past week. She's been texting via Facebook her activities...
In last night’s 60 Minutes interview with David Martin, Gen. Stanley McChrystal said several things that made sense and showed there might be a way of “winning” this war. His new directive to the troops...
In a story that appeared at the ChicagoTribune.com website this weekend, Illinois legislators are helping students with their tuition bills. Better still, this generous act does not add to their state’s budget...
On that day eight years ago, I was in my office in Lisle. One of my co-workers asked if my radio worked and said that a plane hit a building in New York. I kept an old boom box...