You have the power to stop this, so do it. Susana A. Mendoza is the Illinois state comptroller, charged with paying the state’s bills. She served 10 years as a state legislator. The views and ...

When Kathy Rinaldi was seven years old, a second grader growing up in Stuart, Fla., she wrote these words for a school assignment: “If I can’t be a tennis player/I think I’ll just be me.” ...