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Lucille Dickess: An Advocate For Pink-Collar Workers At Yale
The Hartford CourantLucille Dickess played a major role in the successful fight to unionize "pink collar" workers at Yale University. The recognition of Local 34, Clerical and Technical Workers Union, brought higher wages and greater stability to the workers, most of them...Tags: United Auto Workers, Colleges and Universities, Career and Workplace, Yale University, Work Relations
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford wins South Carolina House seat
WASHINGTON — Two years after Mark Sanford left the South Carolina governor’s office tarred by an adultery scandal, he has completed an unlikely political comeback to win a special congressional election. Sanford defeated Democratic neophyte...Tags: Steve Israel, Mark Sanford, Jenny Sanford, Government, Politics
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By the numbers, how Rahm could lose in 2015
Change of SubjectFriday's print column A new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows that, halfway through his first term, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's overall disapproval rating is up 11 percentage points over a year ago. Four in 10 Chicago voters — and nearly half of the...... -
George Michael: Pretty blue in blue states
A recent article in the real estate section of MSN.com, written by Kurt Badenhausen of Forbes Magazine, was titled “America’s Most Miserable Cities of 2013.” The article ranked American cities based on metrics that included violent...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Political Corruption, Justice System, Rudy Giuliani, Politics
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BRIEF: Petal WR names favorites
The Sun HeraldPetal junior wide receiver Jesse Jackson has listed Ole Miss and Mississippi State as his top two choices. Defending BCS champion Alabama, who has also offered Jackson a scholarship, also remains in the running. ___ (c)2013 The Sun Herald (Biloxi,... -
Are you (fill in the blank) enough?
WASHINGTON -- Enough with this "enough" business. Latest to the question of whether a person is sufficiently identifiable as belonging to a particular demographic is Ted Cruz -- the conservative Texas senator who happens to be of Hispanic descent. But...
Tags: Immigration, Minority Groups, Demographics, Republican Party, Ted Cruz
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49ers stadium leaders refute racism charges lodged by civil rights groups
San Jose Mercury NewsA coalition of civil rights groups is threatening to sue over what it calls a lack of minority-owned businesses working on the San Francisco 49ers' new stadium, though project officials deny those claims and say they gave contractors of all races an equal...Tags: Business, Litigation, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, National Football League
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Race and crime in Baltimore
It's unfortunate when an everyday accident happens but it's sad when columnist Dan Rodricks and Michael Hanchard use it to play the race card ("Man sees race, indifference in experience with Baltimore police," April 13). First, if as Michael Hanchard...
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What election?
I was looking over the results of the various county and township elections across Chicagoland this morning. Robin Kelly won Jesse Jackson's old congressional seat; not really a surprise but the turnout in that district was 20 percent of the electorate. ...Tags: Elections, Politics
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'42' in the Windy City
Chicago Tribune reporterWhen Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers brought their historic roadshow to Chicago a few weeks into the 1947 season, a record crowd of 46,572 people crammed into Wrigley Field, and 20,000 more stood outside wishing they could get in. After the game,...Tags: Cleveland Indians, Soldier Field, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Labor Legislation
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1 man, 12 hours of March Madness
For RedEyeCharles Barkley has it right: Watching the first couple rounds of the NCAA tournament before the switch to a new format wasn’t great. "We all take it for granted now but the tournament used to suck [on TV]," Barkley told SI. "It used to be: Why...Tags: College Basketball, St. Mary's University of Minnesota, Cinderella (fictional character), National Collegiate Athletic Association, TBS (tv network)
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'Sweet Sisters of Zion' doc celebrates the Barrett Sisters
Five years ago, the greatest trio in the history of gospel music – the Barrett Sisters – told me they had one last wish: That someone would make a documentary film about their lives and careers. That film, a moving evocation of their...
Tags: Music, Aretha Franklin, Howard Reich, Entertainment, Smithfield
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