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PI Original
by Josh Kalven
1:02pm
Fri Jan 16, 2009

155 Lives

Labor

Firedoglake's Marcy Wheeler has a great post up today pointing out that the personnel involved in pulling those 155 US Airways passengers out of the Hudson River alive yesterday were union members.  The pilots, the flight attendants, the air traffic controllers, the ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
12:38pm
Fri Jan 16, 2009

Remember Todd Rokita?

Indiana

Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita
really wants Hoosiers to believe he cares deeply about the integrity of
the voting process. In October, just days before the 2008 election, the
Republican sent a letter
to federal, state, and local authorities asking for a criminal
...

PI Original
by Angela Caputo
11:15am
Fri Jan 16, 2009
2 comments

Schakowsky Leaves Door Open To Burris Challenge In 2010

Congress

 

Politico is reporting this morning that Rep. Jan Schakowsky is “open to running” for the Senate in 2010:

Schakowsky, leaving the Burris swearing-in ceremony
Thursday, told Politico that “time will tell” whether she’d run or not.
Asked whether she was ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
10:46am
Fri Jan 16, 2009
1 comment

A Look At The House Stimulus Proposal

Stimulus bill

We’ve spent a lot of time
considering what should be included in any stimulus package passed by
the new Congress. Yesterday, the first version of the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Bill of 2009—penned by House Democrats and the
president-elect’s team—was made public.
...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
5:07pm
Thu Jan 15, 2009
12 comments

Rigged Elections

Phil Hare

As we’ve written repeatedly,
running a union campaign is a perilous exercise in the U.S. Because the
costs of violating the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) are so low,
companies can intimidate or fire union organizers and sympathetic
employees without facing ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
4:02pm
Thu Jan 15, 2009
1 comment

Introducing Sen. Roland Burris

Roland Burris

This morning, Roland Burris was sworn in by Vice President Dick Cheney as the junior U.S. Senator from Illinois.  Watch it...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
3:46pm
Thu Jan 15, 2009

"Smart Enforcement" The First Goal For Immigrants Rights Groups

Immigration

Last month, in a church in Chicago’s Humbolt Park neighborhood, Rep. Luis Gutierrez began laying the groundwork for the upcoming battle to usher comprehensive immigration reform through the new Congress. Gutierrez told a standing-room-only crowd that by heading to the ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
2:42pm
Thu Jan 15, 2009

IL-5: Feigenholtz, Geoghegan, And Quigley Updates

IL-5

Lots of little developments to report out of the 5th Congressional District race, so here goes.

Tom Geoghegan rolled out an online petition yesterday to "end the era of blank check bailouts." Specifically, it urges Congress to attach three common-sense ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
1:06pm
Thu Jan 15, 2009
1 comment

Another Front In The Battle To Rein In TIF

Tax Increment Financing

From the time they first got a
whiff of Mayor Daley’s plan to bring the 2016 Olympic Games to Chicago,
many suspected that it was only a matter of time
before he would fess up and acknowledge that the taxpayers would
have to kick in some cash to make his dream come true. ...