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In Florida, a question of timely injustice
At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing. Not to canonize the man. After all, the then-governor of Illinois was later imprisoned on corruption charges. But that doesn't change the fact that, in 2000, stung that 13 inmates had been...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Illinois Governor, Crime, Law and Justice, Death Penalty
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In Florida, timely injustice
At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing. Not to canonize the man. After all, the then-governor of Illinois was later imprisoned on corruption charges. But that doesn't change the fact that, in 2000, stung that 13 inmates had been...Tags: Executive Branch, Illinois Governor, The Miami Herald, Government, Punishment
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Column: In Florida, timely injustice
At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing. Not to canonize the man. After all, the then-governor of Illinois was later imprisoned on corruption charges. But that doesn’t change the fact that, in 2000, stung that 13 inmates...Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Illinois Governor, Crime, Law and Justice
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Voice of the People, May. 11
Promoting gambling Mayor Rahm Emanuel has made a video using the plight of Chicago's schoolchildren to promote the building of a casino in Chicago. This resurrects sad memories for many of us of the Illinois Lottery's self-justification in 1974 that...Tags: Chicago Elections, Rahm Emanuel, Midway Airport, Oak Lawn, Richard M. Daley
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Harris: Patrick Fitzgerald offers lesson on complexities of terrorism law
Complex. Even messy. That's the reality of prosecuting terrorism cases, former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald told his University of Chicago law school students at the outset of a recent class he taught with law firm colleague Michael Scudder. The...
Tags: Sausages, Laws, Terrorism, Witnesses, Colleges and Universities
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Ex-lawmaker nearly doubles his pension with one month of work
All it took for former state Rep. Robert Molaro to nearly double his public pension was spending one month as an aide to Ald. Ed Burke, the powerful chairman of the Chicago City Council's Finance Committee. Among Molaro's duties: Write a 19-page white...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Finance, Chicago City Council, Illinois Governor, Pat Quinn
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Illinois government: Governor, legislative leaders increase private meetings
Tribune reporterSPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn and the top legislative leaders strode down a stairwell and into a Capitol hearing room for a private meeting with the House and Senate lawmakers—all fellow Democrats—who together control state government....Tags: Religion and Belief, Pat Quinn, Illinois Governor, Martin Sandoval, Budgets and Budgeting
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Digging a pension hole
Illinois' pension system was in precarious enough shape in 1994 that Democrats and Republicans came together to solve a crisis threatening the state's financial future.
The agreement they forged was supposed to take politics out of pension funding by...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Laws, Emil Jones, Finance, Job Layoffs
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Public records: Illinois' leading lawmakers privately circulate proposal to undercut effort for better open records law
Tribune reportersIllinois' leading lawmakers privately circulated their own proposal for a new public records law Wednesday that would essentially gut months of work by interest groups attempting to strengthen the state's notoriously weak public access to government...Tags: Freedom of Information Laws, Laws, Pat Quinn, Illinois Governor, Lawyers
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Illinois House wants voters to abolish lieutenant governor job
Clout StreetSPRINGFIELD — The Illinois House today approved a measure that would ask voters whether to eliminate the job of lieutenant governor, but the proposal has a long way to go before the much-maligned office would disappear. The measure must pass the...Tags: Executive Branch, Barrington, Pat Quinn, Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich
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Free Renaldo Hudson? Mercy, yes!
Change of SubjectWhy should Illinois release Renaldo Hudson? After all, he committed a ghastly, unprovoked murder — stabbed a 72-year-old man some 60 times then set his victim's bed on fire to try to cover his tracks — and was on death...... -
The illusory value of the death penalty
After deciding to pursue the execution of the man charged with fatally shooting 12 people in a Colorado movie theater last summer, the prosecutor declared that "for James Egan Holmes, justice is death." By that definition, he might have added, justice...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Judges, Colleges and Universities, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers
May 19, 2013
|Column| South Bend Tribune
May 19, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 18, 2013
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May 11, 2013
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May 9, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Dec 16, 2011
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Mar 30, 2009
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Dec 15, 2011
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May 21, 2009
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Apr 11, 2013
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Apr 4, 2013
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Apr 4, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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