John McCarron

I'm doubling my contribution to United Way this year. Not because of an attack of altruism. Or to curry favor with my boss, who collects the checkoff cards. I'm not...

I back Jack. No, not Jack O'Malley, the Cook County state's attorney. I back Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan doctor who helps pain-wracked, terminally ill people commit suicide. He has my...

It's mattress time in America. If you've seen "The Godfather" you know what that means. It's time for competing interest groups to dig in and defend what's theirs, call the...

Have you read the good news? It was in last week's Newsweek. And in The New York Times. And on the cover of that highbrow British weekly, The Economist. They...

At first it sounded like one of those "homer" decisions. You know, the kind of call a weak-kneed umpire might make against a visiting team in the late innings, with...

I have this recurring fantasy that a Japanese conglomerate starts a chain of daily newspapers in the United States. The thought usually hits me after I've read an editorial or...

This is the way that we have chosen. It is good to keep that in mind after reading the sob stories about Sears, Roebuck and Co. Not that we shouldn't...

The chairman of the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau was indicted last week on bribery charges. A week earlier the former alderman of Chicago's downtown 1st Ward was convicted for...

I've been shoveling the sidewalk a lot lately, a mindless chore that allows me to brood about the growing national flap over rights versus responsibilities. Those two activities-shoveling the walk...

Denial. Webster's defines it as "a refusal to believe or accept." In today's fast-changing business climate, it can be a company-killer. It happens when circumstances (technology, markets, regulations) change, but...