Talk:Mike Royko
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Another good one, Shsilver. Royko's columns were regularly ripped off by the Boston Globe's phony columnist, Mike Barnicle, who was a fair-haired boy until he got caught and fired.
I covered City Hall in Chicago while Royko was covering Cook county. It was always a pleasure when he showed up at a news conference because he never took any nonsense from anyone and always asked the best questions. He was a great reporter before he became a columnist. I introduced him to blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield, which was some of the first publicity Bloomfield ever got. Royko was Polish and "Polish jokes" enraged him, making for some of his best early columns. Can you write about Slats Grobnik? Ortolan88 09:58 Aug 12, 2002 (PDT)