After being accused of trying to end welfare reform as we know it, the Obama camp responds by bringing up the Massachusetts welfare-to-drive-to-work program, itself a descendent of the 1996 welfare-reform law.
In their upcoming book on Rod Blagojevich, Chicago Tribune reporters Jeff Coen and John Chase write that the former gov once threatened to fire an aide if he revealed a secret: that Blago had voted for George H.W. Bush. “If you ever repeat this, first I’ll deny it, secondly I’ll wait a little bit, then I’ll fire you,” Rod had told the aide…
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In Elk Grove Village this week, Mitt Romney accused the president of destroying welfare-to-work and bringing about a new culture of dependency. Here’s how a bit of bureaucratese turned into the latest front in the culture war.
Lists just out from Politico ranking donors to the two presidential candidates show that, on the Democratic side, Chicagoan Fred Eychaner ranks number one. On the GOP side, at number nine with $2.3 million for Mitt Romney and other Republican PACs and candidates, is Chicago hedge fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin…
Last month was the second-hottest July in recorded Illinois history, and the nation’s hottest in 118 years of records. And that heat, and the dryness that came with it, hit the state and its neighbors the hardest.
Tracing mass-shooting conspiracy theories back to their source in the lush garden of irrational explanation that the Web plays host to, but one that rarely surfaces aboveground.
Mass public shootings, like all forms of violent crime in America, rose during the end of the 20th century, peaked in the 1990s, and have been in decline since.
Drought conditions didn’t worsen much in the last period, but the outlook for August is scary, and for the next three months as well, as drought and heat push a vicious cycle.
Journalists want gaffes; politicians want to avoid them; which makes journalists want them all the more. It’s a vicious cycle, but one that long predates 24/7 coverage and social media… as Mitt Romney’s dad could have told you.
