Charles H. Percy

Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, to retire from Senate

2013-01-11 09:55:00

WASHINGTON -- Facing the prospect of a tough reelection fight, veteran West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, 75, announced Friday that he will leave the Senate when his current term ends. His decision makes him the first senator in either party whose term...

Charles H. Percy dies at 91; moderate former GOP senator

2011-09-18 00:00:00

Former Sen. Charles H. Percy, a former Foreign Relations Committee chairman whose moderate Republican views put him at odds with party conservatives, died Saturday in Washington, D.C. He was 91. Percy's daughter, Sharon Rockefeller, announced in 2009...

My Bill Mauldin story, or: A tale of two vets

2013-04-16 16:30:05

Dear Vet, Thanks for the memories, specifically the biographical sketch of Bill Mauldin, the great but never assuming cartoonist for Stars and Stripes during the World War, Act II. I worked in a cubicle across from his office when I was an editorial...

Do stop believin' -- the GOP is right to say it's OK to switch

2012-09-04 21:32:11

Do stop believin'

2012-09-05 00:00:00

It's understandable if you feel discouraged and disillusioned. It's no shame to wise up, cross the aisle and vow not to be fooled anymore. All that starry-eyed campaign rhetoric — We are "the party of idealism and inclusion," "the party of a...

Former U.S. Sen. Charles Percy dies

2011-09-17 09:31:00

Charles H. Percy, a brilliant businessman who represented Illinois for nearly 20 years in the U.S. Senate, once headed the chamber’s powerful Foreign Relations Committee, and harbored unrealized ambitions to run for the presidency, died early...

Political satire in "The Capitol Steps'

2011-11-14 13:12:00

The Capitol Steps will be making a return appearance at the Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh, in Johnstown at 7:30 p.m. Friday. It is a show that will truly offend someone, said Michael L. Bodolosky, the...

SNERD - September 21, 2011

2011-09-21 15:56:41

Scarlett's Other "Naked" Moment Last week, actress Scarlett Johansson was angered after her cell phone was hacked and two privately-taken naked pictures of the actress were blasted throughout the viral world. But I've "over-Snerd" a more embarrassing...

A last vestige of Republican moderation

2011-09-18 16:32:56

Kenilworth: Living large in a tiny suburb

2009-09-04 00:00:00

Sometimes, in the public consciousness, a town's reputation carries more weight than the day-to-day reality. Such is the curious case of Kenilworth, unique among the North Shore suburbs for several reasons, including its history as a planned community,...

`Most distasteful thing I've ever done' nears for Fawell

2005-09-28 00:00:00

When Scott Fawell takes the stand to testify against his close friend and mentor, George Ryan, it will be the "the most distasteful thing I've ever done," he wrote in a recent letter to the Tribune. Once as close as a son to the former governor and now...

Campaign exposure

2009-04-12 00:00:00

When advocates of clean government talk about how to clean up the pervasive corruption in Illinois, they start with the state's campaign finance laws—or the lack of them. Illinois has few rules on how political campaigns are funded, making it what...

Charles H. Percy , who represented Illinois for nearly 20 years in the U.S. Senate , died early Saturday at 91.

2011-09-17 07:29:27

Sen. Charles Percy , right, whispers to President Richard M. Nixon before the president's address to the National Retired Teachers Association and the American Association of Retired Persons on June 25, 1971, in Chicago.

2011-09-16 15:13:20

talk with demonstrators demanding jobs for Latino workers at the groundbreaking ceremony for Presidential Towers on Aug.

2011-09-16 15:13:51