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Donations To George Zimmerman’s Defense Fund Slow In Trayvon Martin Case

Donations To George Zimmerman’s Defense Fund Slow In Trayvon Martin Case

Share Tweet Donations to George Zimmerman’s defense fund have slowed considerably since his attorneys forced him to shut down his old website last month and opened a new one in his name days later. The man charged with second-degree [...]

5-18, 2012 7:53

Financing football stadiums: Bread, circuses and leather balls

Financing football stadiums: Bread, circuses and leather balls

Share Tweet A Hail Mary pass? THE Falcons, Atlanta’s professional football team, have played their home games at the Georgia Dome, America’s largest indoor sports arena, since 1992. It cost $ 214m to build and another $ 55m to [...]

5-18, 2012 7:07

Emanuel Not Fulfilling His Promises

Emanuel Not Fulfilling His Promises

Share Tweet Analysis finds promise to cut payrolls by 10 percent not fulfilled in mayor’s own office. NBC Chicago – Chicago Political News and Chicago Politics [...]

5-18, 2012 6:20

Philanthropy: Spreading gospels of wealth

Philanthropy: Spreading gospels of wealth

Share Tweet EVEN more private jets than usual landed at Santa Barbara airport on May 9th, as some 35 billionaires and a score or so of spouses flew in for a behind-closed-doors meeting in the luxurious Bacara resort. They [...]

5-18, 2012 5:35

Lexington: Peter David

Lexington: Peter David

Share Tweet BY TRADITION, departing Lexington columnists write a valedictory reflecting on the state of the nation. Had Peter David come to pen his parting thoughts, he might well have reflected on American exceptionalism. Sadly, this column must now [...]

5-18, 2012 4:48

Wisconsin Jousts Over Latest Survey Of Job-Loss Numbers

Wisconsin Jousts Over Latest Survey Of Job-Loss Numbers

Share Tweet Jobs numbers continue to be at the center of the Wisconsin recall. The new monthly survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Thursday indicate Wisconsin lost 6,200 private-sector jobs in April — but Gov. Scott Walker [...]

5-18, 2012 4:01

Strip Club Bill Passes Committee, 8-0

Strip Club Bill Passes Committee, 8-0

Share Tweet The real news here: an Illinois lieutenant governor finally does something.Photo Credit: Getty Images NBC Chicago – Chicago Political News and Chicago Politics [...]

5-18, 2012 3:15

Forget Jeremiah Wright: Democrats’ Real Worry Is GOP Money

Forget Jeremiah Wright: Democrats’ Real Worry Is GOP Money

Share Tweet The surprise return of Reverend Jeremiah Wright to the 2012 campaign as part of hypothetical plan to paint President Obama as a “metrosexual black Abe Lincoln” may be an amusing story, but it’s a sideshow to the [...]

5-18, 2012 2:28

Tax Reform in Oklahoma

Tax Reform in Oklahoma

Share Tweet LD Jackson Tax Reform in Oklahoma In case you didn’t know it, there is a battle going on in Oklahoma. It is a battle over tax reform and amazingly, it is between Republicans and Republicans, not Republicans [...]

5-18, 2012 1:41

Opinion: Cubs Owner Wants To Tie Obama To Rev. Wright

Opinion: Cubs Owner Wants To Tie Obama To Rev. Wright

Share Tweet Joe Ricketts, angry right-wing billionaire and patriarch of the family that owns the Cubs, is hatching a $ 10 million plan to attack the president’s character by tying him to Rev. Jeremiah Wright.Photo Credit: Getty Images NBC [...]

5-18, 2012 0:55

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