Are You Better Off Than You Were 2 Years Ago?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 26th, 2011 5:31 am by HL
Are You Better Off Than You Were 2 Years Ago?
John Merline, AOL News
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Keep Rahm Emanuel on the Ballot
Mark Brown, Chicago Sun-Times
From the moment it became known that Rahm Emanuel’s candidacy for mayor would face a residency challenge, everyone with a working knowledge of Chicago’s politics and courts knew this day was a possibility.That made it no less stunning Monday when a campaign backed by $12 million, two U.S. presidents and, according to the latest polling data, nearly half the likely voters in Chicago ran aground on the legal opinion of two previously anonymous Appellate Court justices — Thomas Hoffman and Shelvin Louise Marie Hall.
Senate Nears Compromise to Ease Slowdown Tactics
Is Obama Stuck in Central-Planning Mindset?
Caroline Baum, Bloomberg
Who says President Barack Obama didn’t get the message of the 2010 midterm elections?In the last few weeks alone, the president reconfigured his inner circle to look less like America and more like Bill Clinton’s White House.He appointed one of those formerly disparaged “fat-cat bankers,” William Daley, as his chief of staff. Daley was Clinton’s Commerce Secretary and hails most recently from JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Obama to Make Pitch on Solving Economic Troubles
Aamer Madhani, NJ
President Obama is putting the final touches on Tuesday night's State of the Union speech, an address in which he intends to make the case to the American public that the economy is on the mend but that investment in science, innovation, and education will be critical to driving real job growth.In his briefing today, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs revealed only scant details about Obama's speech, but he made it clear that the president “will spend most of his time talking about the economy, both in the short term [and] in terms of doing whatever we can to create jobs…
