James Warren

Elgin native Dianne Smith finally decided that the severity and length of Chicago winters were too much, so she moved here. Suspicious taxpayers might wonder if Smith, who is hereby...

Seeking insight into how our taxpayer dollars are spent, I dropped by federal court Friday morning and was given the choice of rooting for one of the following: - A...

-If you hadn't a clue, you would have assumed Rep. Julia Carson was giving new meaning to the notion of a no-show job. The Indiana Democrat was elected in November...

When President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore announced a new national drug strategy last week, the setting was plush, the mood confident. In an auditorium adjacent to the White...

Garvin Tankersley Dies; Businessman and Editor -- obituary headline in Thursday's Washington Post. "I thought at times our lives depended on it," said Katharine Graham, media doyenne and surprise best-selling...

It would seem the epitome of outrageous Washington influence peddling: a big time lobbyist baby-sitting for Vice President Al Gore and a prominent senator, Christopher Dodd of Connecticut. Upon interrogation,...

For many years Warren Buffett, the revered Nebraska billionaire who is chairman of a holding company called Berkshire Hathaway, ridiculed corporate jets as an extravagance and waste of shareholders' money....

"It's hard to separate the personal stuff from business," said Peter Edelman, sitting in a coffee shop on a gray winter's day and alluding to a deeper freeze, his relationship...

A $150-a-person, black-tie version of a Bataan Death March was stumbling to an end when Dennis Kucinich, a vivid reminder that there are afterlives in American politics, saved the night....

While Sam Jethroe ran like the wind, he couldn't beat a curse of his times. Now, with the help of a politician he doesn't know, he and other black former...