Mike Royko

Ross Perot is being called mentally unstable because he claims that Republican dirty tricksters planned to disrupt his daughter`s wedding. He says the evil plot was one of the reasons...

Not that anyone asked, but I`ll admit it anyway. I`ve lost more gambling at poker and golf than Michael Jordan. There, I have bared my soul, unburdened my conscience. I`m...

Prominently displayed on the front and back pages of the Chicago Sun-Times Wednesday was a promotion for one of that paper`s sports columns. It was an ''open letter'' from the...

A woman from radio station WVON, which has a largely black audience, called with one of the more unusual invitations I`ve received lately. ''We are putting together a round-table panel...

At the risk of being labeled an un-American swine, I admit to cheering for the baseball team representing Toronto, Canada, to beat the baseball team representing Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. Many...

Betty had gone to her suburban bank to get some family letters from a safe-deposit box. She went into one of those private booths that are provided to examine one`s...

''I don`t understand why people are complaining about all the dirty politics in this campaign,'' Slats Grobnik said. Because many Americans are turned off by vicious politics. They want a...

Frank Barwacz, 75, comes downtown almost every day to go to church and stroll or to play chess in the park. It`s seldom that he doesn`t run into a street...

Try to imagine Bill Clinton or George Bush saying: ''And if I`m elected, you`ll pay 10 cents more for a gallon of gas. That`s an extra $2 for a fillup....

''So I`m listening to the radio this morning, and they`re talking about the schools being a mess,'' said Slats Grobnik. ''It`s the public radio station, and the egghead girl who...