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Dolores Jean Grey Reynolds: 1950-2013
Dolores Jean Grey Reynolds worked to make her customers feel at home during the 17 years she owned and ran the venerable South Side restaurant Army & Lou's. A successful business executive before buying Army & Lou's, Ms. Reynolds had no culinary...Tags: Barack Obama, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Martin Luther King Jr., Philosophy, Religion and Belief
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Six keys to Obama's second term
Presidential second terms have a bad name. The traditional view is that presidents are stuck with first-term leftovers on their plates and a calendar that calls on them to get any legislation through Congress in the first 18 to 24 months. After that,...
Tags: Government, Elections, Science and Technology, Satellite and Cable Service, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Indian tribes, with more clout and money, find an ally in Obama
WASHINGTON — At a July fundraiser in the elegant Mandarin Oriental hotel near Washington's Tidal Basin, President Obama met with some of his most steadfast supporters — two dozen political and business leaders eager to write sizable checks...
Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Elections, George W. Bush, 2012 Democratic National Convention, U.S. Department of the Interior
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President to president
"You will be our president when you read this note," George Herbert Walker Bush wrote to Bill Clinton, the man who defeated him in the 1992 campaign, denying Mr. Bush the provisional vindication that reelection provides until history has its chance to...
Tags: Republican Party, George W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Elections, Los Angeles Times
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Obama fundraiser linked to loan program that aided Solyndra
The White House faced mounting political complications as a second top fundraiser for President Obama was linked to a federal loan guarantee program that backed a now-bankrupt Silicon Valley solar energy company, and as two California lawmakers called for...Tags: Republican Party, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elections, Los Angeles Times, Steven Chu
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Blagojevich Begins 14-Year Prison Term in Colorado
CNNChicago -- Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrived at a Colorado federal prison Thursday to begin serving a 14-year sentence on a corruption conviction. "This is the hardest thing I've ever had to do," he told a crowd of sign-wielding supporters...Tags: Government, CNN (tv network), Chicago, Elections, Rod Blagojevich
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Old allies Rahm Emanuel and Rod Blagojevich in spotlight again
Rod Blagojevich and Rahm Emanuel were once very public allies, pushing prescription drug programs and school reform together as North Side Democrats whose careers were on the rise.
Now the former governor is fighting to stay out of federal prison. And...Tags: Government, Fox News Channel (tv network), Heads of State, F-bomb Dropping, African Americans
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HUD Offers Latest Obama Administration Attempt To Strengthen LGBT Rights Through Regulation
Staff reporterThe Department of Housing and Urban Development unveiled a series of proposed rules on Thursday designed to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals from discrimination when applying for federal housing assistance. The HUD proposal marks...Tags: Republican Party, Government, Employees, Elections, Interior Policy
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Parsing Blago
Change of SubjectFrom the transcript of Rod Blagojevich's appearance on Fox News Sunday: In the second round, we're going to put a defense on, I'm certain. And in that particular case, you know, we're going to call witnesses like Rahm Emanuel, Senator...... -
Now, a Cheney surge: Blasts Obama for Afghan 'dithering,' delays and indecision
Top of the TicketFull text of ex-VP's shot back at Democratic White House over Afghan war policies.... -
Obama jobs creation proposal puts focus on small business [Update]
Top of the TicketThe forum was a think tank, one of Washington's oldest, the Brookings Institution. The topic was jobs, the stubborn unemployment numbers that have made the nascent economic recovery bittersweet. President Obama's idea? Use the savings from cheaper... -
Blago's `Madigoon’ fantasy
Change of SubjectOne of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s most frequent protestations of innocence in the more than a year and half since his arrest is that he wasn’t trying to “sell” a U.S. Senate seat, just trying to trade it in exchange......
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