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Beginning New Year’s Day it became a lot more expensive for Illinoisans to trade in a car and this has auto dealers, particularly in border areas, bracing for lost business.

REEDER: I was told the key to being a good Santa is being non-committal

By Scott Reeder | Dec 22, 2019

I’ve been a journalist for more than 30 years and have found myself writing about St. Nicholas, the jolly old elf, several times.

REEDER: Officially, Illinois does not have political patronage

By Scott Reeder | Dec 10, 2019

Last month, I renewed my new driver’s license and couldn’t help but shake my head and remember the worst job I’ve ever had: summer driver’s license clerk.

REEDER: Debt-based license suspensions don’t protect or promote safer communities

By Scott Reeder | Nov 10, 2019

Just call it a state-supported scam. Once upon a time, parking enforcement was the purview of meter-maids on scooters tooling from spot to spot. Today, it is big business.

REEDER: Middle school parents, beware

By Scott Reeder | Oct 29, 2019

Youngsters across Illinois are preparing for the annual science fair competition.

Reeder: Our permanent record is now on the internet for all the world to see

By Scott Reeder | Oct 13, 2019

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REEDER: I almost felt sorry for Blagojevich. Almost.

By Scott Reeder | Sep 15, 2019

Imagine the disappointment of getting ready to put on civilian clothes and walk out the prison gate and then being told, “Oh, never mind.”

REEDER: Some unknown teenager is probably out of job because technology provided a money-saving alternative

By Scott Reeder | Feb 11, 2019

I walked into a Springfield McDonald’s the other day and saw a long line standing in front of the teen-age clerk taking orders, so I ordered my breakfast on a touchscreen.

REEDER: I would be betraying my hometown if I bought something made in another country

By Scott Reeder | Feb 5, 2019

“I want a “smart refrigerator,” Daddy.”

Reeder: Rauner developed a reputation in Springfield that his word just wasn’t good

By Scott Reeder | Dec 30, 2018

Let me get this straight -- Bruce Rauner spent more than $50 million of his own money to keep a job he really didn’t want?

REEDER: Talk of illegal immigration often is nothing more than a smokescreen for condemnation of all immigrants

By Scott Reeder | Dec 23, 2018

Sometimes you find hope in unexpected places.

Reeder: Illinois is in a fiscal crisis because of unfunded pension liabilities

By Scott Reeder | Dec 16, 2018

Last month, I wrote a column on an idea being pitched by State Rep. Jeanne Ives that contends that state pensions may be illegal contracts because they violate the state constitution.

Reeder: Two decades is not that long ago at all

By Scott Reeder | Dec 10, 2018

When you are a young man, 20 years seems a long time.

Reeder: Mathematics can be quite unkind

By Scott Reeder | Dec 2, 2018

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REEDER: April is organ donor month in Illinois; Please consider being an organ donor

REEDER: The best way to combat shortages is to ration goods

REEDER: Promoting efficiency is almost always the best policy

REEDER: Bryant was at best an adulterer. At worst, he was a rapist

REEDER: Rod Blagojevich's prison essay comparing Donald Trump to Abraham Lincoln

REEDER: When something becomes more expensive, demand for it goes down