I was underground with an active shooter this summer. A man standing on the Jackson Red Line platform Aug. 17 fired a gun at another man just after a Howard Street-bound train pulled in. The victim...

Just before the college community departed from the campus for the winter break, the United Staff of Columbia College, the college’s staff union, had rallied for a cost-of-living adjustment, with COLA signs and soda cans decorating the walls and stairwells of many campus buildings.As reported Dec. 14, 2015, by The Chronicle, the staff union has been in negotiations with the college administration for almost three years to have th...