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Former Crestwood official pleads guilty in tainted well scheme
A state inspector visiting south suburban Crestwood in 2007 had a question for one of its top water officials: How could the village have pumped out more water than it had claimed to purchase from nearby Alsip? Certified water operator Frank Scaccia...
Tags: Water Supply, Pat Quinn, Freedom of Information Act, Chicago Elections, Judges
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Retired Justice O'Connor: Bush v. Gore 'stirred up the public'
Tribune reporterRetired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor hasn’t given much thought to which case was the most important one she helped decide during her 25 years on the bench. But she has no doubt which was most controversial. It was Bush v....Tags: Sandra Day O'Connor, Ronald Reagan, Elections, Chicago Tribune, George W. Bush
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Influence of big-money 'SuperPACs' not so clear
CHICAGO — There's a scary bedtime story on money in politics about how the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling unleashed a tidal wave of corporate cash into politics and drowned out the voices of the little people. But as researchers...
Tags: Science and Technology, University at Albany , Colleges and Universities, Rick Scott, Karl Rove
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Interactive graphic lets voters follow the money in mayor's race
A Times analysis of campaign contributions in the Los Angeles mayor's race shows that big donors are using loosely regulated "super PACs" to help candidates like never before. The Times has created an interactive graphic that allows readers to break...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Primaries, Elections, Ethics, Local Elections
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'Super PACs' negate spending limits in L.A. mayor's race
Strict limits on campaign contributions imposed by voters nearly three decades ago are crumbling in the Los Angeles mayor's race, with big donors using loosely regulated "super PACs" to help candidates like never before in a citywide election, a Times...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Primaries, Elections, Ethics, Local Elections
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CBOE identifies software glitch that halted trading
ReutersThe Chicago Board Options Exchange, which opened for trading three hours late on Thursday, said in a memo to clients that it has found the software issue at fault for the delay. And though it is conducting an "ongoing and thorough internal review of the...Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, NYSE Euronext, Inc., TD Ameritrade Holdings Corp., Chicago Board Options Exchange, Citadel LLC
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Judges threaten Gov. Jerry Brown with contempt of court
SACRAMENTO — A panel of federal judges Thursday threatened to hold Gov. Jerry Brown and other state officials in contempt of court if they do not quickly produce a plan to remove thousands of convicts from California's packed prisons. In a...
Tags: Government, Jerry Brown, Safety of Citizens, Prisons, Executive Branch
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Give 'bomb control' a chance
He thought his wife was in love with another man, police say, so James L. McFillin of Baltimore decided to blow up the other man. It was 1979. McFillin wired two sticks of an explosive called Tovex 220 into the electrical system of a truck belonging...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Gun Control, National Rifle Association of America, Firearms, Bill Clinton
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Column: Signs of grown-ups in charge
Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, chairman of the Financial Services Committee, has told Richard Cordray not to bother. This is part of the recent evidence that government is getting some adult supervision. President Barack Obama used a recess...Tags: Automotive Equipment, White House, Earth Day, International Olympic Committee, Air Transportation Industry
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The red herring of human gene patents
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. — Louis D. Brandeis Just a few words and little thought separate yet another stronghold of the American economy from ruin....
Tags: Medical Research, Science and Technology, American Civil Liberties Union, National Institutes of Health, Vaccines
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PREVIEW-US court may limit use of race in college admission decisions
ReutersBy Joan Biskupic WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) - Thirty-five years after the U.S. Supreme Court set the terms for boosting college admissions of African Americans and other minorities, the court may be about to issue a ruling that could restrict...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Louisiana State University, Social Issues, Students, John F. Kennedy
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U.S. top court justice Breyer has surgery after bicycle fall
ReutersWASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer had shoulder surgery Saturday to repair a broken bone after a fall from his bicycle, the top court said. Breyer, 74, injured his right shoulder in a fall from his bicycle on...Tags: Georgetown, Stephen Breyer, Korean War (1950-1953), Bill Clinton
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