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    May 11, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  1. Voice of the People, May. 11

    Promoting gambling Mayor Rahm Emanuel has made a video using the plight of Chicago's schoolchildren to promote the building of a casino in Chicago. This resurrects sad memories for many of us of the Illinois Lottery's self-justification in 1974 that...

    Tags: Social Services, Politics, Oak Lawn, Local Government, Chicago Elections

    2. May 9, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. Harris: Patrick Fitzgerald offers lesson on complexities of terrorism law

    Complex. Even messy.
    Complex. Even messy. That's the reality of prosecuting terrorism cases, former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald told his University of Chicago law school students at the outset of a recent class he taught with law firm colleague Michael Scudder. The...

    Tags: Human Rights, Sausages, Students, George W. Bush, Civil Rights

    3. Apr 27, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  3. Former Illinois chief justice who argued against the death penalty dies

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Moses W. Harrison II, a former chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court who adamantly argued against the state's death penalty in the months before former Gov. George Ryan's moratorium on capital punishment, died Thursday afternoon at Missouri...

    Tags: Religion and Belief, Mount Vernon, Lawyers, NAACP, Judges

    4. Apr 11, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. Illinois House wants voters to abolish lieutenant governor job

    SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois House today approved a measure that would ask voters whether to eliminate the job of lieutenant governor, but the proposal has a long way to go before the much-maligned office would disappear.
    Clout Street
    SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois House today approved a measure that would ask voters whether to eliminate the job of lieutenant governor, but the proposal has a long way to go before the much-maligned office would disappear. The measure must pass the...

    Tags: Barrington, Regional Authority, Illinois Governor, Politics, Government

    5. Apr 5, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. Free Renaldo Hudson? Mercy, yes!

    Why should Illinois release Renaldo Hudson? After all, he committed a ghastly, unprovoked murder — stabbed a 72-year-old man some 60 times then set his victim's bed on fire to try to cover his tracks — and was on death row until 2003 when...

    Tags: Regional Authority, Abusive Behavior, Criminals, Lawyers, Politics

    6. Apr 4, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. The illusory value of the death penalty

    After deciding to pursue the execution of the man charged with fatally shooting 12 people in a Colorado movie theater last summer, the prosecutor declared that "for James Egan Holmes, justice is death." By that definition, he might have added, justice is also highly unlikely.
    After deciding to pursue the execution of the man charged with fatally shooting 12 people in a Colorado movie theater last summer, the prosecutor declared that "for James Egan Holmes, justice is death." By that definition, he might have added, justice...

    Tags: Politics, Lawyers, Shootings, University of Texas at Austin, Murder

    7. Mar 31, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. 10 years after Daley's Meigs Field raid, the makeover of Northerly Island is slow to take shape

    Ten years ago as Mayor Richard M. Daley worked through political channels to accelerate federal approval to build new runways at the airport his father had dearly called "O'Hara," the mayor also issued an infamous order to destroy Chicago's little lakefront airport.
    Ten years ago as Mayor Richard M. Daley worked through political channels to accelerate federal approval to build new runways at the airport his father had dearly called "O'Hara," the mayor also issued an infamous order to destroy Chicago's little...

    Tags: Conservation, Federal Aviation Administration, Ecosystems, Environmental Issues, Chicago Hotels

    8. Mar 18, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. Sources: Zachary Fardon appears to be favorite for U.S. attorney

    A former federal prosecutor who helped convict former Gov. George Ryan appears to be the favorite to succeed Patrick Fitzgerald as the next U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, sources in Washington and Chicago told the Tribune.
    A former federal prosecutor who helped convict former Gov. George Ryan appears to be the favorite to succeed Patrick Fitzgerald as the next U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, sources in Washington and Chicago told the Tribune. The...

    Tags: Prosecution, Lawyers, Politics, Government, Executive Branch

    9. Mar 16, 2013 |Column| Baltimore Sun

  9. In death penalty repeal, reason over revenge at long last

    Many of us believe that capital punishment, first used in the Province of Maryland in 1638, should have been relegated to the trash heap long ago. Politicians in Annapolis had overwhelming evidence of its costly and debilitating flaws for many years, but too many refused to attach their names to repeal.
    Many of us believe that capital punishment, first used in the Province of Maryland in 1638, should have been relegated to the trash heap long ago. Politicians in Annapolis had overwhelming evidence of its costly and debilitating flaws for many years,...

    Tags: Maryland General Assembly, Criminals, Politics, Murder, Crime, Law and Justice

    10. Mar 14, 2013 |Story| Herald Mail

  10. Area clergy, residents hail newly elected pope for his humble life

    caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.com and holly.shok@herald-mail.com
    The Roman Catholic Church’s first Latin American pope, who lived in a small apartment and used public transportation as a cardinal, sparked excitement among Tri-State area clergy and church members Thursday. Members of the clergy in the Tri-State...

    Tags: Religion and Belief, Abusive Behavior, Politics, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), Papal Conclave (2013)

    11. Feb 15, 2013 | Chicago Tribune

  11. Dump the lite gov? Fee-fi-fiddly-i oh, yes

    Change of Subject
    I like Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon, and not just because she’s a fellow banjo player. She’s friendly, unassuming, smart, straightforward. Whether she’d be a good Illinois attorney general or treasurer or, like her late father, Paul Simon, a U....
    12. Feb 5, 2013 | Chicago Tribune

  12. Tribune archive: The Daniel Taylor case

    Change of Subject
    Here is an archive, in reverse chronological order, of the Tribune's coverage of the Daniel Taylor case: News story: Criminal justice: Jail alibi doesn't outweigh confession -- Records show Daniel Taylor in jail when double murder occurred, but...
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