Steve Daley

There aren`t that many rules in the Federal City. You never quote the public relations person; you never burn a good source of information; and you always get a receipt...

It`s George Bush`s honeymoon, but it`s the 101st Congress that is nervous. A plan to invest members of Congress, as well as a large number of judges, Cabinet officials and...

February is always the shortest month of the year and the longest in the Chicago winter. In 1989 it is sure to be interminable. The Democratic mayoral primary will be...

For television critics, there`s always a kind of psychic hangover at the end of any ratings ''sweep,'' such as the one just completed. On the national level, there`s the memory...

''Dentist By Day, Magician By Night.'' ''Hypnosis Can Eliminate Negative Behavior Patterns.'' ''She Cured Her Own Rheumatoid Arthritis.'' No, ladies and gentlemen, these are not bits for ''Late Night With...

For openers, how about a compendium of magical television moments strung out over a long Thanksgiving weekend, without a single mention of Morton Downey`s cellblock interview with James Earl Ray?...

The lights used to depress me. The little white lights that go up way too early along Michigan Avenue, and the artificial Christmas greenery adorning the front of the building...

The radiator in my office was making more noise than Geraldo Rivera and a posse of Elvis impersonators. Outside, the sky was the color of Morton Downey`s teeth. Inside, I...

Everywhere you look on television these days you see white men in dark suits talking about The Issues. Since Nov. 8 there has been hardly a word on ABC`s ''Nightline''...

You can tell something about a society by the way it remembers. Twenty-five years ago, if you were holding your breath and watching your family mourn the death of John...