Stephen Franklin

Sidestepping their bitter differences over the free trade agreement with Mexico, President Clinton and the leaders of organized labor embraced each other Tuesday in a practical political alliance. Organized labor...

Avi Sinai rolls his eyes. Don't ask about the problems of starting a new restaurant, he says mysteriously. What does he mean? Everyone should have such problems. We are talking...

There is one abiding truth to Middle Eastern cooking and this is it: Respect your baba ganoush. Your eggplant should be a little smoky, a little spicy, and not embarrassed...

Peering from a small, rain-soaked plywood shack plastered with strike signs, Al Hamovitz offers his advice on how not to control health-care costs. "Why should they take it from us...

Roy Tillery has a special cap he wears to show his frustration with Caterpillar Inc., the company that, he says with a wide-eyed sincerity, gave him a life beyond his...

The hunks of lead pipe that were hurled through the windows of the modest third-floor mosque over the weekend didn't really worry Ahmet Moustafa. He expected that much after the...

When a Texas-based coalition wanted to dramatize its opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement, they put together a video alleging that a Northfield-based chemical company was dumping toxic...

When Denise Kotowicz, president of Products for Power in Addison, began investigating the Mexican market for automobile catalytic converters, she had trouble getting a telephone call through to send a...

Long after the company shut the plant, uprooting 390 $10-an-hour jobs and sending them to Mexico and Texas, Jackie Calvin cannot bury the thought: Could she have saved the jobs...

As a result of a new contract between the motion picture projectionists union and Cineplex Odeon Corp., its members' salaries will be cut by about 25 percent and the union...