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In Florida, timely injustice
Leonard PittsAt great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing. Not to canonize the man. After all, the then-governor of Illinois was later imprisoned on corruption charges. But that doesn't change the fact that, in 2000, stung that 13 inmates had been...Tags: The Miami Herald, Politics, Regional Authority, Crime, Law and Justice, Government
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Column: In Florida, timely injustice
At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing. Â Not to canonize the man. After all, the then-governor of Illinois was later imprisoned on corruption charges. Â But that doesn’t change the fact that, in 2000, stung that 13 inmates...Tags: Politics, Government, Punishment, Death Penalty, The Miami Herald
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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, Wheaton, Charity, Richard M. Daley
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Harris: Patrick Fitzgerald offers lesson on complexities of terrorism law
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: FBI, Politics, Students, Patrick Fitzgerald, University of Chicago
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Former Illinois chief justice who argued against the death penalty dies
St. Louis Post-DispatchMoses 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: NAACP, Politics, Northwestern University, Springfield, Lawyers
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Illinois House wants voters to abolish lieutenant governor job
Clout StreetSPRINGFIELD — 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: Politics, Regional Authority, Rod Blagojevich, Barrington, Government
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Free Renaldo Hudson? Mercy, yes!
Change of SubjectWhy 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...... -
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...
Tags: Shootings, Politics, Trials, University of Texas at Austin, Jared Lee Loughner
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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...
Tags: Entertainment, Richard M. Daley, Stevie Wonder, Rahm Emanuel, Conservation
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Sources: Ex-prosecutor in lead to become new U.S. attorney here
Tribune reportersA 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: Justice System, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Rod Blagojevich
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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,...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Congress, Criminals, Government, Elections
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Area clergy, residents hail newly elected pope for his humble life
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.com and holly.shok@herald-mail.comThe 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: Politics, Benedict XVI, Roman Catholicism, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Elections
May 19, 2013
|Column| Tribune Media Services
May 18, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
May 11, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
May 9, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Apr 27, 2013
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Apr 11, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Apr 4, 2013
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Apr 4, 2013
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Mar 31, 2013
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Mar 17, 2013
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Mar 16, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Mar 14, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
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