Pat Widder

Q. What is going on in Asia? A. In simple terms, it's a correction of excess. Too much borrowed money not wisely used. The day of reckoning has arrived. The...

Partisan sniping over the beleaguered Internal Revenue Service escalated Tuesday. In a letter to President Clinton, House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) derided the administration's plan to reform the tax agency...

White House and Republican negotiators reached tentative agreement Monday night on a historic plan to balance the budget by 2002 and provide Americans with their first major tax relief in...

Economist Milton Friedman showed Wednesday that he retains his low esteem for the value of the Federal Reserve Board and his belief in free markets virtually unfettered by government policies....

The Chicago Tribune presents its sixth annual Top 100 Companies section, spotlighting the largest publicly traded companies headquartered in the six-county Chicago area. There are many large privately traded companies...

A federal judge in Virginia issued a decision Tuesday that could rip apart the patchwork of restrictions governing the nation's telephone and cable television industries. The part of the 1984...

WMAQ-Ch. 5's Ron Magers came to Chicago as an anchor nearly 12 years ago. Carol Marin has been anchoring at WMAQ since 1978. In the NBC building's Tower Grill, over...

Bill Applegate, general manager of WBBM-Ch. 2 from 1990 to mid-1993: "TV news, by its nature, is the popular press. Our best work is done on daily breaking news, and...

Michael Gartner, the bow-tied newspaperman from Iowa, did what his bosses at NBC-TV and its parent, General Electric Co., hired him to do nearly five years ago: He slashed staff...