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Hey! I made 'Best of the Web today!'
Change of SubjectOn the Bulworth thread, a commenter asks if I'll be responding to James Taranto's blog item at the Wall Street Journal that mentions me. A bit. Here's the relevant passage and a few subsequent passages with my comments. There's been...... -
Amid damage control efforts, White House listens to outside advice
Reuters* Top Obama advisers met with about a dozen strategists * Talked about how to move forward from three scandals * On Friday, Obama to talk about education, economy By Roberta Rampton and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - Senior White House...Tags: Bill Clinton, Public Officials, U.S. Department of Justice, Benghazi, Jay Carney
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News Corp. hires Toni Cook Bush to oversee lobbying after split
News Corp. has hired a D.C. heavyweight to handle its lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill after it becomes primarily a newspaper publishing company. Antoniette "Toni" Cook Bush will join News Corp. next month as its executive vice president and global head...
Tags: Los Angeles Times, U.S. Senate, Federal Communications Commission, Newspapers, News Corp.
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Obama nominates Penny Pritzker, Mike Froman to his economic team
WASHINGTON – President Obama praised Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker for her commitment to American workers on Thursday morning as he nominated her as his next Commerce secretary. In a Rose Garden announcement, Obama listed Pritzker’s...
Tags: Politics, Political Fundraising, Hyatt Hotels Corp., Penny Pritzker, Barack Obama
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White House to nominate new budget director
WASHINGTON – As he prepares for more spending battles with Congress, President Obama plans to nominate Sylvia Mathews Burwell, head of the Walmart Foundation, as his next budget director, the White House said Sunday. A former deputy budget...
Tags: Charity, U.S. Senate, Gene Sperling, Jack Lew, Washington, DC
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Will Penny Pritzker become the next U.S. commerce secretary?
In late 2009, President Barack Obama appeared on "60 Minutes" and said "fat-cat bankers" were smothering his efforts to craft new rules for Wall Street. As soon as the reforms cleared Congress six months later, the president's top advisers launched a...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Gaming, Unions, Heart Attack, Investments
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Obama's lean into GOP territory
Who are these guys? Barack Obama and his agents are looking more and more like Mitt Romney and the Republicans that Team Obama maligned to win the presidential election. I'm not just talking about last week's gone-viral Oval Office photo of senior...Tags: Parties and Movements, FedEx Corporation, MSNBC (tv network), Current TV (tv network), Satellite and Cable Service
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Obama adviser hits South Side shops
Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama who grew up in Chicago, visited two South Side stores Saturday afternoon as part of a nationwide effort to support small businesses during the holiday shopping season. Jarrett stopped by...Tags: Small Business Saturday, Hyde Park, Kenwood, Business, Barack Obama
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Executive Profile: Martin Nesbitt, the first friend
Chicago businessman Martin Nesbitt will sit on the dais in front of the U.S. Capitol on Monday as his best friend is inaugurated president of the United States. The two men — successful African-American leaders who share a record of high...
Tags: Jeremiah Wright, Chicago Housing Authority, U.S. Senate, Kenwood, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated
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First lady to attend slain girl's funeral
The first lady, governor and mayor will attend Hadiya Pendleton's funeral Saturday, but the family of the slain teenager is determined to hold a service that looks past politics and celebrates the life of a 15-year-old girl lost to Chicago street...
Tags: Kenwood, Regional Authority, The Happiest News!, Politics, University of Chicago
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Hadiya Pendleton funeral: Joyous memories, bitter facts about gun violence
The funeral for Hadiya Pendleton on Saturday was a celebration of her life, just as her parents had wanted. But along with those moments of joyful remembrance, there was bitter awareness of the street violence that took her away. In the front row,...
Tags: Public Officials, Kenwood, Arne Duncan, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics
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Weeks in review
Change of SubjectA roundup of state and local news-review and weekly political chat shows. Descriptions provided by the broadcast outlets in most cases: Connected to Chicago(.mp3 file, right click to download) WLS-AM 890. Host Bill Cameron with Greg Hinz of Crain's...
May 20, 2013
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May 16, 2013
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May 15, 2013
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May 2, 2013
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Mar 3, 2013
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Mar 3, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jan 15, 2013
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Nov 25, 2012
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Jan 21, 2013
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Feb 7, 2013
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Feb 9, 2013
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Feb 7, 2013
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