Paul Sassone

Paul Sassone is a long-time columnist for Pioneer Press and a winner of a first-place award for opinion column writing from the Local Media Association. …

• ‘Rules of the Road’ offers a funny read

  It was called “1,001 Jokes,” or maybe it was “Jokes For All Occasions.” I don’t remember, exactly. It did have one of those gray covers libraries glued on books after the original covers had worn out. I would check out that book for two weeks, …Read More

• Businesses should keep messages to themselves

  I probably should have been annoyed by this sooner. What I was, and am, annoyed about this time is Starbucks ordering its employees to write political messages on the cups of coffee customers purchase.

• No need for tiered handicap parking

  Who can argue with Illinois’ new disabled parking law? I can, of course. The new law creates a two-tier parking system for disabled drivers: severely disabled and less severely disabled.