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The fight over credit card swipe fees hits the road
Politico· 17 hours agoBe sure to read Matt Friedman’s unpacking of what the allegations of extortion and corruption will mean for a Democratic machine that was felled by its exploitation of state ...
Are they all political witch hunts?
The Frederick News-Post· 5 days agoA witch hunt is: "A campaign directed against a person or group holding unorthodox or unpopular views"
Barbershop politics
Politico· 7 days agoDavenport’s campaign manager is Maggie O’Keefe, who is also...Prosecutors want a judge to give Chicago’s longest-serving City Council member a 10-year...
Metro-east environmental activists confront Duckworth. She vows to help them fight pollution
Belleville News-Democrat via Yahoo News· 3 days ago“They’d rather forget,” she said. “But senator, I’m asking you to remember that we are still here...
Today in History: June 27, Hurricane Audrey makes deadly Gulf Coast landfall
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 day agoIn 1844, Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois. In 1880, author-lecturer Helen Keller, who lived most of her life without ...
The Bare Facts About Oil and Gas in New Mexico
Carlsbad Current-Argus via Yahoo Finance· 3 days agoThe time is ripe for all of us to ask these questions of our governor and our legislators. Mary and Martin Yates, Tom Flynn, and Van S. Welch...
County appoints insider as new inspector general
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 5 days agoA new watchdog will be taking over the Cook County Office of the Independent Inspector General, responsible for rooting out waste, fraud and corruption...
Sen. John P. Hale in Civil War Washington
New Hampshire Union Leader· 2 days agoRepublican Sen. John P. Hale of Dover campaigned for presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln of Illinois ahead of the national election on Nov. 6, 1860....
