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By the numbers, how Rahm could lose in 2015
A new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows that, halfway through his first term, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's overall disapproval rating is up 11 percentage points over a year ago. Four in 10 Chicago voters — and nearly half of the city's African-American voters...
Tags: Toni Preckwinkle, Garry McCarthy, Karen Lewis, Richard M. Daley, Rahm Emanuel
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford wins South Carolina House seat
WASHINGTON — Two years after Mark Sanford left the South Carolina governor’s office tarred by an adultery scandal, he has completed an unlikely political comeback to win a special congressional election. Sanford defeated Democratic neophyte...Tags: Jenny Sanford, Barack Obama, Mark Sanford, Adultery, Appalachian National Scenic Trail
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George Michael: Pretty blue in blue states
A recent article in the real estate section of MSN.com, written by Kurt Badenhausen of Forbes Magazine, was titled “America’s Most Miserable Cities of 2013.” The article ranked American cities based on metrics that included violent...Tags: Barack Obama, Lawyers, Rudy Giuliani, Justice System, New York City
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Are you (fill in the blank) enough?
WASHINGTON -- Enough with this "enough" business. Latest to the question of whether a person is sufficiently identifiable as belonging to a particular demographic is Ted Cruz -- the conservative Texas senator who happens to be of Hispanic descent. But...
Tags: Ted Cruz, Demographics, Immigration, Minority Groups, Republican Party
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'42' in the Windy City
Chicago Tribune reporterWhen Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers brought their historic roadshow to Chicago a few weeks into the 1947 season, a record crowd of 46,572 people crammed into Wrigley Field, and 20,000 more stood outside wishing they could get in. After the game,...Tags: Wrigley Field, Labor Legislation, Jackie Robinson, Chicago White Sox, Baseball
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Race and crime in Baltimore
It's unfortunate when an everyday accident happens but it's sad when columnist Dan Rodricks and Michael Hanchard use it to play the race card ("Man sees race, indifference in experience with Baltimore police," April 13). First, if as Michael Hanchard...
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What election?
I was looking over the results of the various county and township elections across Chicagoland this morning. Robin Kelly won Jesse Jackson's old congressional seat; not really a surprise but the turnout in that district was 20 percent of the electorate. ...Tags: Elections, Politics
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Venezuela's 'president in charge' Maduro picks a running mate
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela’s new interim president, Nicolas Maduro, gave a clear sign Friday night that he will use political capital left by the late President Hugo Chavez to win election in his own right. In his acceptance speech to the...
Tags: Elections, Hugo Chavez, Politics, Heads of State, Government
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Funeral begins for Venezuela's Chavez
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.CARACAS, Venezuela -- The funeral ceremony for late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez got underway Friday at a military base in the capital before 32 heads of state and with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra directed by Los Angeles conductor Gustavo...Tags: Hugo Chavez, Sean Penn, Government, Arts and Culture, Elections
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When 'Negro' was in vogue
The Census Bureau announced last week that it is dropping the use of the term "Negro" to describe black Americans in its population surveys. I suspect few will mourn the word's passing. Today Americans of African descent, especially younger ones, almost...
Tags: College Baseball, Tyler Perry, NAACP, Slavery, Langston Hughes
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In 2nd District Republican squeaker, ex-convict looks to be winner
Republican voters are suggesting the 2nd Congressional District replace one felon with another after picking ex-convict Paul McKinley as the candidate to run for the seat recently ceded by former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. While official results in the...
Tags: Prisons, Assault, Theft, Personal Weapon Control, Trials
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Sources: Jesse Jackson Jr. writing memoir to 'clear up his legacy'
Tribune reporterWASHINGTON — Disgraced former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., who pleaded guilty last week to misusing $750,000-plus in campaign money, is writing a memoir, two sources familiar with the project told the Tribune. Jackson, 47, will be sentenced June...Tags: Financial Planning, Lawyers, Trials, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate
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