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. …

• Dangerous drivers out not only at holidays

  It’s supposed to make us feel safer, but it has the opposite effect on me. Every time a holiday rolls around, police announce they are beefing up traffic enforcement. This year’s Labor Day holiday was no exception. More than 200 Illinois law enforcement agencies joined …Read More

• Remember when TV reception was simpler?

  I speak to you from the past. Long past? No, just from June 11, 2009. That was the last day we were one country bound together by the strongest tie — television. June 11, 2009, was the last day before, by federal decree, all TV …Read More

• Grey Lantern: 102 people saved and counting

  I am a super hero. Call me Grey Lantern. You might be a super hero, too. As Grey Lantern I save lives. The lives I save belong to people in thrall to an insidious, pervasive and mind-altering electronic entity. They wander our communities on foot …Read More