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Hopkins announces $4.5 billion fundraising goal
Johns Hopkins announced Saturday a $4.5 billion fundraising goal — among the largest in the country — to help the university and health system address some of the world's most challenging issues, including water scarcity, education quality and...
Tags: Finance, Human Interest, Financial Aid, Stanford University, Education
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Newly-elected D230 board members to be sworn in April 30
Newly-elected officials who say they're committed to dealing with state imposed funding cuts and newly-required learning standards will begin their four-year terms on Consolidated High School District 230's Board of Education this month. Voters threw...Tags: Heroin, Elections, Politics
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Obama advocacy group collects mostly from small donors
WASHINGTON — The nonprofit advocacy group that was formed to back President Obama's agenda, which was sharply criticized as a potential conduit for wealthy interests to influence the White House, has been financed overwhelmingly by thousands of...Tags: Barack Obama, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Finance, Human Interest
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With session over, it's fundraising season
With the season for legislating over in Maryland as of last Monday, the season for raising cash for campaigns has begun. For the next nine months, until the General Assembly convenes in Annapolis Jan. 8, candidates for the legislature, governorship and...
Tags: Republican Party, Annapolis, Daniel Bongino, Michael Steele, Democratic Party
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Organizing for Action raises $4.8 million in first quarter
WASHINGTON — In its few months of existence, the nonprofit advocacy group launched to promote President Obama’s legislative agenda raised a little more than $4.8 million, a modest debut for an entity built on the infrastructure and grass-roots...
Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Politics
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McAuliffe raised more than $5 million since January
Democratic candidate for governor Terry McAuliffe announced Friday that he raised 5.1 million for his campaign in the first quarter of 2013. The Jan. 1 through March 31 numbers show more than 3,600 Virginians made 72 percent of the contributions, with...Tags: Executive Branch, Bill Clinton, Ken Cuccinelli, Elections, Government
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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: Career and Workplace, FreedomWorks, Finance, Education, Mississippi State University
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Scott should sign ethics, veto campaign packages
Florida lawmakers crowed last week, with some justification, about passing a "historic" package of ethics reforms. But they squandered a historic chance to deliver true campaign finance reform in another package they sent to Gov. Rick Scott's desk....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Values, Justice System, Finance, Don Gaetz
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Obama to nominate Penny Pritzker as Commerce secretary
WASHINGTON – Making official what many Democrats have expected for weeks, President Obama plans to nominate Chicago business executive Penny Pritzker, a longtime political supporter and heavyweight fundraiser, as his new Commerce secretary on...
Tags: Barack Obama, Hyatt Hotels Corp., Sally Jewell, PlayStation Portable, Media Industry
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States try to tackle 'secret money' in politics
WASHINGTON — Early last month, state lawyers and election officials around the country dialed into a conference call to talk about how to deal with the flood of secret money that played an unprecedented role in the 2012 election. The discussion,...Tags: Republican Party, Internal Revenue Service, David Koch, Americans for Prosperity, Lisa Murkowski
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Leaders of DWP union launch TV ads in support of Greuel candidacy
The alliance between Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel and the Department of Water and Power workforce strengthened Wednesday as a committee run by leaders of the utility's main union launched TV advertising to buttress her candidacy just as...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Primaries, Kevin James, Voting, Wendy Greuel
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Tax-cut vote shows might trumps right
TALLAHASSEE – The Florida House of Representatives embarrassed itself this week by ramming through a tax-cut that turns one of Gov. Rick Scott's top legislative priorities into potential litigation fodder. The last thing the governor and...Tags: Florida Legislature, Executive Branch, Parties and Movements, U.S. Senate, Crime, Law and Justice
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