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Obama Drug Czar Contender to be Top Cop

Mon, 04/18/2011
President Barack Obama‘s drug czar is among the contenders to become the first Chicago police superintendent in Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel‘s administration, the Chicago News Cooperative has learned.   Gil Kerlikowske, whose formal title is director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, met last week with Emanuel in Chicago...
Al Wysinger, Chicago Police Department, City Hall, Dateline: Chicago, Deb Kirby, Garry McCarthy, Gene Williams, Gil Kerlikowske, Interview, Jody Weis, News, Police, Rahm Emanuel

Farrakhan Using Libyan Crisis to Bolster His Nation of Islam

Sat, 04/09/2011
When Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Chicago-based Nation of Islam, staunchly defended Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi recently, he seized headlines for an organization that has made little news in recent years.In an often-fiery speech on March 31 at Mosque Maryam, the group’s South Side headquarters, Mr. Farrakhan recalled the decades of friendship and...
American, Barack Obama, College, Greek, Indiana, News, Purdue, South

Sometimes a Big-Time Communications Guy Will Actually Communicate

Sat, 04/09/2011
David Axelrod concedes that he has a touch of Potomac fever, a malady in which the victim struggles with the notion that there’s life beyond the nation’s capital. “It’s a narcotic,” he told a Chicago audience last week as he engagingly recounted two years as a top aide to President Obama, his desk just a few paces from the Oval Office. “It’s...
Bulls, Central, David Axelrod, James Warren, News, Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley, West

Chicago Lawyers Caught Between Clients and Country

Thu, 04/07/2011
Jeffrey Colman, a Chicago lawyer, got a collect call Tuesday from a convicted murderer at Menard Correctional Facility in downstate Chester. If only his clients at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp could have made similar calls. Mr. Colman mentioned the call when I broached the latest news in the unseemly history of the camp set up after the Sept...
American, James Warren, News

Notre Dame Professor Leads Effort to Keep Asian Carp Out of Great Lakes

Thu, 03/31/2011
When the United States Fish and Wildlife Service decided in March to ban the import and transport of bighead carp — one of the infamous Asian carp — under a century-old law called the Lacey Act, David Lodge had one reaction. “It’s about time,” he said.  It figures that Mr. Lodge, 54, a professor of biological sciences at the University of...
Bill Clinton, coal, Fish, List, Michigan, News, Notre Dame, Southern, Wisconsin