U.S. Rep. Mike Boland made his lieutenant governor aspirations official this week, and we wish him luck. Boland has been eyeing the spot since at least 2001 and faces a tough challenge. His exit has drawn...

More powerful than a locomotive. That Superman-esque achievement also works for Quad-City high school students, whose 347 tons of food collected this year exceed the weight of two locomotives. Picture...

No Child Left Behind test scores are out in Illinois and the results are tiredly the same. Failure, failure, failure. We've lamented this before (More children left behind," our Sept. 17 editorial on Iowa...