Fiction recalls terrible Springfield crash

But For the Crash, George A. M. Heroux. Connecticut: Eloquent Books, 2010. Paperback $13.95, Kindle Ed. $9.99. ISBN 978-1-60911-453-4.George Heroux lives in Springfield and is an attorney and th

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Guest Opinion | Thursday, October 21,2010

Teaching Millennials some manners

By Martha Miller

In an article for The New Yorker, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, a social network that has had its problems with privacy, claimed that privacy is an “evolving social norm.” Sinc

Books | Thursday, September 30,2010

The Angel of Death Row

Putting a face on corruption in Illinois courts

By Martha Miller

Angel of Death Row: My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer. Andrea D. Lyon. Kaplan Publishing, 2010. Hardcover. $24.95. Kindle edition $9.99, contains only “A Mother Accused,” a single

Books | Thursday, June 3,2010

Late-in-life journey

A novel of rejuvenation in old age

By Martha Miller

In an old Cher movie called Moonstruck, Olympia Dukakis is talking to her 40-plus-year-old daughter (Cher) about getting married and having a baby. Cher protests that she’s too old for a baby. O

Books | Wednesday, April 8,2009

The man who emptied death row

By Martha Miller

November 8, 1994, the day George Ryan was reelected secretary of state, Ricardo Guzman, a Mexican native, was driving a truck on I-94 near Milwaukee. A bracket over a mud flap assembly dangled from

Guest Opinion | Thursday, January 5,2006

The examined life

Going to Decatur to see acclaimed movie about Truman Capote

By Martha Miller

Last week I drove to the Avon Theater in Decatur to see Capote. I shouldn’t have to do that, but here we are, a few years into the 21st century, and the local theaters still avoid

Feature | Thursday, June 5,2003

Why teens still smoke

By Martha Miller

"The last cigarette smokers in America were located in a box canyon south of Donner Pass in the High Sierra by two federal tobacco agents in a helicopter who spotted the little smoke puffs just before