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World › Schwarzenegger opens climate summit with Obama message

Wednesday 19th November, 05:37 AM JST BEVERLY HILLS, California — Calif Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger opened his international climate change summit on Tuesday by upstaging himself with an even bigger political star—President-elect...

Madigan: 'Less than zero' chance for Senate nod

November 18, 2008 at 1:56 PM | Comments (1) Illinois Atty. General Lisa Madigan says the chance is "less than zero" that Gov. Rod Blagojevich will offer her President-elect Barack Obama's former seat in the U.S. Senate. Madigan...

Jim Edgar, Bill Daley throw weight behind group to fix school funding

By MIKE RIOPELL - H&R Springfield Bureau Writer SPRINGFIELD - A new group that includes several Illinois political heavyweights said Tuesday that they want to fix the state's public school system. They're not the first who have...

Obama's senate staff will soon pack the office

USA TODAY's sights and sounds gallery puts together images and audio marking the Democrat's historic run to the White House. Q: What will happen to President-elect Barack Obama's Senate office? A: Obama stepped down from the...

Blagojevich budget plan seeks more power, federal cash

Posted by Tribune staff at 12:40 p.m. Gov. Rod Blagojevich called on lawmakers to give him more power and the federal government to find Illinois more money as he floated a plan to try to close a state budget shortfall he puts...

Obama Pledges "New Era Of Global Cooperation" On Climate Change During California Summit (AHN)

President-elect Barack Obama gave a surprise message on Tuesday before the Governors Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles. The conference aims to lay out the framework for addressing climate change ahead of a United Nations...

Who'll replace Obama, Biden, Clinton in the Senate?

Democratic Senate seats are opening up all over the place. Between Barack Obama’s seat in Illinois, Joe Biden’s spot in Delaware, and maybe Hillary Clinton’s in New York, as many three Democratic governors will soon have big...

Sonnenschein Secures Pro Bono Class Action Victory for Disabled Clients

13 hrs ago

Represented by a team of lawyers from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and several nonprofits, a class of 6,600 developmentally disabled residents of state-owned facilities in Illinois will now be able to choose their own living...

So long, Emil. Hello reform in Senate?

Eric Zorn | Change of Subject The tale of Christine Radogno and Her Fruitless Motion best illustrates why this is such an important week in our state Capitol. On that day, Radogno, a Republican state senator from suburban...

Joe Davidson's Federal Diary

Tuesday, November 18, 2008; Page D04 Joe Lieberman and Danny Davis are proven allies of federal workers and each chairs congressional panels affecting them. Lieberman chairs the Senate's Homeland Security and Governmental...

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