David Rutter

Rutter: One-gender schools might answer the wrong question

June 9, 2018 at 12:07 a.m.

Some experimental ideas seem plausible and attractive on their face. One-gender public schools are like that. Why not separate girls and boys from each other educationally at the very time...

Purdue jolted by voice of campus fascists

June 9, 2018 at 12:25 a.m.

Fascists don't always goose-step into town as Hitler's Wehrmacht did in Austria, or as Mussolini's black shirts did to Ethiopia after browbeating Italy's feeble king into submission. Even Hitler and...

Mundelein Mayor Steve Lentz during a Nov. 28 meeting explains why he voted against a ban on commercially bread dogs and cats. He broke a 3-3 tie and voted to pass an ordinance requiring clean living conditions and disclosure of where the animals come from.

Rutter: Mundelein had chance to lead on puppy mills, but didn’t

June 8, 2018 at 11:59 p.m.

Sometimes governments disappoint you with gargantuan miscalculations. There are wars that shouldn't have been fought. There are horrors committed against families and children that better minds should have stopped. But...

Valparaiso University’s law school might face bleak choices

June 9, 2018 at 1:10 a.m.

Two weeks ago in a nearly unprecedented backhand, the American Bar Association punished two law schools 723 miles apart for similar indiscretions. One was put on probation for two years....

The College of Lake County's Grayslake Campus on Washington Street.

Rutter: CLC’s academic talent hunters span the world

June 9, 2018 at 2:15 a.m.

At the risk of seeming a misanthropic nationalist, you can wonder with honest curiosity and amazement how the College of Lake County has a worldwide recruiting mission to acquire foreign...

Hammond judge starts at ‘baseline of nothing’

June 9, 2018 at 3:34 a.m.

Amy Jorgensen might become a swell judge for the Hammond City Court now that she's got the gavel. I might be a good neurosurgeon this Thursday if you give me...

Hospitals nationwide have instituted stricter hand-washing policies and other measures in the fight against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, commonly referred to as MRSA.

Rutter: Make yourself smarter about your hospital’s safety

June 9, 2018 at 2:47 a.m.

You have a 1 in 25 chance of leaving the hospital with an infection you didn't have when you arrived. But that's a statistical illusion. The "1 in 25" is...

A pair of 1893 Levi-Strauss denim blue jeans in pristine condition that went up for auction this month.

Rutter: Not even Brits can take away my jeans

June 9, 2018 at 4:31 a.m.

Owing to a devoted sister's sympathy for her dispirited brother, I got my first real pair of blue jeans when I was way past 55. It was a divorce consolation...

Lake County Sheriff John Buncich speaks to a crowd of supporters as a bus of Democratic Party officials made a stop at the Genesis Convention Center in Gary on Oct. 13, 2016.

Buncich was quick to call out the accused

June 9, 2018 at 5:22 a.m.

The annual crops of irony, black eyes and sprigs of hubris were particularly lovely this year In Lake County. "This is another black eye on Lake County, Indiana. I mean,...

Indiana speeds up killing itself with fat

June 9, 2018 at 4:24 a.m.

If you are sensitive about your weight around Thanksgiving, you probably should not read this and cover your ears. On the other hand, you might be slim, fit and vigorous...

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