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State of the Union address to stress jobs, Afghan troop withdrawal
Associated PressSeeking to focus on nation-building at home, President Barack Obama will use his State of the Union address to call for more spending on infrastructure and manufacturing, while also announcing the withdrawal of 34,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan within a...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Parties and Movements, NBC (tv network), Unions, Michelle Obama
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Letters to the Editor: Oct. 31
Candidate’s behavior was ‘unseemly’ To the editor: After attending the NAACP candidate forum at the Clarion Hotel here in Jefferson County, W.Va., I was appalled at the behavior of Stephen Skinner, delegate candidate for the 67th...Tags: Elections, NAACP, Labor Legislation, Economy, Business and Finance, Deportation
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Mail Call - Oct. 17
“To the voters of the Sixth District: We haven’t had a good representative here since Beverly Byron, so now’s a good time to change and get things straightened out once and for all. Remember, if they’re only there for four years,...Tags: Petroleum Industry, The Pennsylvania State University, Barack Obama, Leon Panetta, Mitt Romney
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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...... -
Penny Pritzker to face key senators for Commerce bid
With Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker set to be grilled by senators Thursday at her Commerce secretary confirmation hearing, Bill Daley feels her pain. Daley, a son and brother of Chicago mayors, faced his own confirmation hearing in 1997 before he...Tags: Parties and Movements, Unions, Mark Kirk, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton
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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: Government, Newspapers, Federal Communications Commission, Television, Entertainment
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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: Political Fundraising, Penny Pritzker, White House, Barack Obama, Hyatt Hotels Corp.
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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: Barack Obama, Gene Sperling, Jeffrey Zients, Washington, DC, Jack Lew
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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, Unions, Michelle Obama, William Daley, Chicago Cultural Center
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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, Al Gore, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Fiscal Cliff, Barack Obama
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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, Small Businesses, Hyde Park, 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: Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated, University of Chicago, Sales, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Michelle Obama
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Jan 15, 2013
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Nov 25, 2012
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