Sheila Liaugminas

Sheila Liaugminas is an Emmy award-winning Chicago-based journalist in print and broadcast media.

Her writing and broadcasting covers matters of faith, culture, politics and the media. She reported for Time magazine in its Midwest Bureau for over 20 years. At Chicago’s NBC-owned station, she co-hosted the TV magazine program YOU. Sheila formerly hosted three radio programs, The Right Questions; and Issues & Answers for Relevant
Radio, and America’s Lifeline on the Salem network.

Besides her work on MercatorNet, Sheila has published in the Chicago Tribune, Crain’s Chicago Business, Crisis Magazine, Voices Magazine, National Catholic Register, Catholic New World, the Center for Morality in Public Life blog Ethika Politika and the National Review Online.

She currently hosts the daily radio program A Closer Look on Relevant Radio and serves as the Network News Director.


The bogus 'war on women'

Sheila Liaugminas | 10 Apr 2012
Some people are getting a lot of traction out of this. In spite of its contrivance as an election year strategy.


Obama's court challenge

Sheila Liaugminas | 7 Apr 2012
The question is not whether President Obama keeps making gaffes and mis-steps lately in public policy or public statements. My question, instead, is…are they calculated and to what end?


The future of Obamacare

Sheila Liaugminas | 3 Apr 2012
The individual mandate requring citizens to purchase something was challenged from the beginning in state and appellate courts, and opening argument were just heard before the US Supreme Court. The HHS mandate requiring citizens to purchase something that violates their conscience is being challenged in a first round of lawsuits with more joining by the week.


The Trayvon Martin tragedy

Sheila Liaugminas | 3 Apr 2012
There is already too much hyperbolic coverage of the very sad case of a shooting that ended the life of a teenager in Florida, and dangerously escalating reaction to it, without restraint or recourse to facts.


HHS mandate remains unchanged

Sheila Liaugminas | 30 Mar 2012
On the morning of the religious freedom rallies across America last Friday, organizer Eric Scheidler was questioned by a network television news anchor about the goal of the event. “Since the administraiton already provided an ‘accommodation’ for religious objection” said the newsman, ”are you looking for another accommodation?” It was a fundamentally flawed premise, widely held by major media still.


Religious freedom rallies

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 Mar 2012
They launched big, in 140 cities, coast to coast.


Rally across America

Sheila Liaugminas | 23 Mar 2012
Friday at noon, in many major cities throughout the country, coast to coast.


Another way to occupy Wall Street

Sheila Liaugminas | 22 Mar 2012
How about a movement of moral reform?

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