New year, new investments The real BofA Congress boasts lots of Hoya fans.
NEW YEAR, NEW INVESTMENTS? President Barack Obama will visit Pellissippi Community College in Knoxville on Friday and higher education analysts are abuzz with ideas about what he might say. Hell be coming to a state where tens of thousands of .
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President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress Tuesday tonight.. (Hat-tip to TPM and the Chicago Sun-Times.) Explore: Let Me Start. facebook twitter 2 save share group 7.
Tribune buys 38 Sun-Times suburban papers
Tribune Publishing Co. is purchasing the Sun-Times suburban newspaper chain, cementing its dominance in the Chicago metro region and giving it new muscle with advertisers. The company announced. For the 45 employees at the Sun-Times suburban papers.
Emanuel unveils second-term education agenda, confronts school closings
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday unveiled an ambitious, second-term education agenda that calls for putting a ���specialty focus��� high school within three miles of every family, freeing top-performing schools from burdensome mandates and achieving an 85 .
Rauner Appoints Meeks To ISBE
Rauner names Meeks State Board of Education chairman Tribune:Like Rauner, Meeks backs the increased use of charter schools and vouchers as alternatives to traditional public education and has been critical of the Chicago Teachers Union.. Congress.
Obama calls on UN to dismantle network of death
UNITED NATIONS ��� Declaring the world at a crossroads between war and peace, President Barack Obama vowed at the U.N. on Wednesday to lead a coalition to dismantle an Islamic State ���network of death��� that has wreaked havoc in the Middle East and .
Chicago archbishop talked immigration with Obama
In this Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014, Archbishop Blase Cupich speaks at St. Agatha Catholic Church in Chicago during Mass. During his homily, Chicagos new archbishop apologized to parishioners at the West Side church where children were sexually abused by .
Chicago Wont Have A Barack Obama High After All
The Chicago Board of Education decided that the proposed selective-enrollment institution would not be called Barack Obama College Preparatory High School as planned due to a district policy against naming public schools after a living person.
Obama seeking tax increases on wealthy to help middle class
Chicago Sun-Times In this Jan. 28, 2014 file photo, Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio listens as President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington.
State of the Island - Television - Voices - SunTimes
The White House is currently dithering over when to schedule the State of the Union address. They cant. TV Guide says if President Obama speaks on Feb. 2, ABC might push. The Facebook group Americans Against the State of the Union on the Same Night as LOST also notes that Obama already bumped A Charlie Brown Christmas in some markets for his Afghanistan speech. Which world. Lori Rackl is the TV critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. Follow her on��.
A look back at 2013s most significant news stories
1 - The U.S. Congress reached a last-minute compromise on legislation, immediately signed by President Obama, to avoid a fiscal cliff of middle class tax increases and spending cuts. 1 - Singer Patti Page, whose hits included Tennessee Waltz and.
Veto showdowns await GOP-led Congress, Obama
WASHINGTON ��� Veto brinkmanship between congressional Republicans and President Barack Obama was virtually absent in his first six years in office, but its about to unleash itself on Washington. Until now. Obama gave lawmakers an early taste of.
Barack Obama helps honor Dikembe Mutombo for charity.
President Barack Obama praised Mutombo (real name Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo) for giving back to his nations people and honoring Kings legacy of service. Obama said the 18-year. shot blocker. President George W. Bush singled him out during the 2007 State of the Union address for his accomplishments and recent U.S. citizenship:. No TrackBacks. TrackBack URL: http://blogs.suntimes.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/28780��.
Tributes flood in for JBT
. of history that helped launch the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Many years ago a newspaper story appeared bemoaning the lack of a secure display vault for the states priceless Gettysburg Address manuscript hand written by Lincoln.
Sen. Barack Obamas letter to Tavis Smiley - Mary Mitchell
The following letter dated February 13, was sent to Tavis Smiley asking him to reconsider his decision not to let Michelle Obama stand in for her husband at the 2008 State of the Black Union forum in New Orleans... If he cannot spare a few minutes of his time, to DIRECTLY address issues that are important to the people from which he comes, how can we be assured that he will address the issue after we give him our votes.. Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat.
Community college for everyone Duncan to weigh in on NCLB East Ramapo.
COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR EVERYONE: President Barack Obama is headed to Pellissippi State Community College in Tennessee today, where hell propose making two years of community college free ���for everybody whos willing to work for it.��� But hell need the.
Obamas belief in community colleges began in Chicago
On cold and blistery January evening in 2004, I met then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama at the corner of Jackson and Franklin in Chicagos Loop. I escorted him into the district offices of the City Colleges of Chicago, where I was a professor, and.
Obamas immigration executive order: Here are the details
WASHINGTON ��� Under President Barack Obamas immigration executive order, announced on Thursday, illegal immigrants who have minor run-ins with law enforcement will not have to worry about the incident triggering deportation, according to senior.
President Obama gives preview to State of the Union Address
Chicago Sun-Times He is expected to focus on tax reform as well as the imposition of a new ���fee��� on the largest financial institutions of the U.S., says Time. Texas Rep. says President Obama is like Hitler. Texas Rep. Randy��.
Sun-Times reporter Dave McKinney quits, cites possible retaliation over Rauner.
Longtime Chicago Sun-Times political reporter Dave McKinney resigned from the newspaper Wednesday, saying he was pulled from his beat by bosses of the papers editor and publisher Jim Kirk and was placed under what he described as house arrest .
Obama starts 2015 on the upswing, but how long will it last?
On Wednesday, Obama starts three days of travel to Michigan, Arizona and Tennessee to preview manufacturing, housing and education proposals that will be part of his Jan. 20 State of the Union address. Not on Obamas schedule during his first workweek .
Obama seeking tax increases on wealthy to help middle class
28, 2014 file photo, Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio listens as President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington. For the first time in his presidency, Obama stands before a.