Recently, Rockford City Council approved our 2026 annual budget. Initially, our anticipated deficit was more than $9 million, largely driven by statewide decreases in PPRT revenues and state-mandated ...

The NFL is coming down the home stretch with only four weeks remaining. We’re through all the bye weeks and the playoff push and No. 1 pick push are in full swing. And after Week 14, it’s safe to say ...

Have you ever found yourself drowning in an ocean of data, endlessly scrolling through rows and columns in Excel, hoping to find that one critical insight? For anyone managing large datasets, the ...

We are living through a defining moment in the American story — one that forces us to ask not just who gets to come to this country, but who we are once they do. Immigration is not peripheral to our ...

The Christian calendar has entered the season of Advent and, depending upon who you ask, you might hear an entirely different explanation of what this means. At its essence, Advent is a time of ...

There are fundamental differences between liberals and conservatives on what are “American values.” But for both liberal and conservative pundits, the term connotes something larger than us, grounding ...

Let’s cut to the chase. If you remain alive in your NFL Survivor pools coming out of Week 10, things are going very right for you. The Buffalo Bills and Carolina Panthers lost their respective ...

It’s the early 1900s, you’re a young (male) Princeton student, and it’s time for your weekly humanities precept. You’re probably heading to the house of Dean Andrew West — classics professor and the ...

When artificial intelligence tools first appeared, they were hailed as revolutionary. Yet their earliest adopters weren’t governments or corporations — they were college students. Within months, ...

Historically, four weeks is about the time it takes for year-to-date production to become as or more predictive than preseason ADP in projecting rest-of-season results. Because of that, it’s a great ...

Starbucks’ $1 billion restructuring lays out a path forward, but many questions remain—signaling the need for a values-based leadership approach. The best way to foster cultural alignment is through ...