Mike Royko

Some Downstate college students have asked me to help them in their battle with a mayor who they believe is ruthlessly stomping all over their rights. Even before I had...

The reader jogged my memory. "What ever happened to that small businessman who owned the lamp company? The one the government was crucifying for not hiring enough minorities?" He was...

I swerved slightly to go around the lean young man who was furiously pedaling his expensive bike. He glanced at me, expecting the glare bicyclists often get from car drivers....

`I resent it," yelled Slats Grobnik, taking a puff on his cigarette and sipping his Polish vodka. Calm yourself and tell me what you resent. "Look at this," he said,...

Hardly a day passes without further evidence of the decline of social standards, culture and Western civilization in general. Now, it is the jewel thief. Of all professional criminals, the...

Joe Konewko was fishing way up north in Minnesota, where the Mississippi River begins. He was having little success until he hooked something really big-himself. "It was kind of stupid,"...

Final gripes column. There, that didn't hurt too much, did it? "In the advertisment they say, `What is worse than a yeast infection?' I say, `Plenty. I mean, nobody dies...

Gripes Column III. Relax, there is only one more to go. "Doctors whose first act is to weigh you when you come in with a broken toe." "People that don't...

Vacation time, so here is Gripes II. Remember, these are the readers' gripes not mine. I'm the cheerful sort. "Roseanne and Tom Arnold. Two pigs who give decent overweight people...

I'm going on vacation so it's time for another series of readers' gripes. It's my way of preventing this space from being filled with anything truly important while I'm loafing....