William Neikirk

George Bush is the Ado Annie Carnes of American politics. You remember Ado Annie. She was the airheaded beauty from the musical ''Oklahoma!'' She is immortal for one song: ''I`m...

My friend was whipping down the expressway at 75 miles an hour, keeping up with the speeding traffic on both sides of him. He was complaining about the lack of...

The story is going around that they`re selling a new futures contract at the Chicago Board of Trade. It`s called the plea bargain. Without doubt, the plea-bargain pit has been...

Just as the FBI began confronting Chicago futures traders about ripping off customers in the pits, George Bush appeared on the television screen to talk about his thousand points of...

One does not need a time machine to go back into the past. Tuning in the mayor`s race will suffice. The candidates seem to think they would be supervising a...

This mayor`s race is about many things, but it certainly isn`t about the economic life of the city. Oh, we have heard the candidates offer the usual platitudes-they want to...

The bankers raised the prime lending rate again, and as sure as the arrival of snow in Chicago, the adjustable rate on my home equity loan will be going up,...

Steve Jobs is making the headlines, but Unix is making the headway. It is not easy for a computer operating system to overshadow a whiz kid like Jobs, but Unix...

Shortly after the stock market crashed, many analysts predicted consumers would cut spending so much that the economy would sink into a recession within a few months. It didn`t happen;...

Pogo is back on the comic pages, and we should be grateful. One can never forget this funny little oppossum`s immortal words: ''We have met the enemy, and he is...