RESUMING NORMAL OPERATIONS. Three weeks on from our troubles, here is the traffic record. I'm not sure yet whether there's a small permanent increase in readership, or an exponentially decaying following of events at Northern Illinois and in the State Line.

I do have a few Book Reviews ready to go, as well as continued developments in transportation policy and higher education to follow. There's still fallout from the Northern Illinois shooting, including a scare at Sycamore High School, a Code Yellow lockdown at Rockton Hononegah High, another threat on a bathroom mirror, this time at Rockford Boylan High, and a threat alluding to Northern Illinois at the Belvidere Chrysler plant. The third shift will be laying off in a few hours. The evening news suggests this threat is not credible. It has also been a difficult weekend for the Chicago Public Schools.

The Northern Illinois spring break begins with the end of classes Friday or Saturday, and it comes none too soon.