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Know Your Limits: Minimum Auto Coverage Varies by State
KickingTiresSome people seem able to traipse through life doing only the bare minimum. But while aspiring only to the mediocre may allow you to enjoy, say, "The Hangover Part III," it could cause more than a bad headache when it......Tags: Insurance, Pat Quinn, Chicago Tribune, Disasters and Accidents
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At 90, artist follows her straight road
The day after she turned 90, Kay Smith put on a long-sleeved red top and black slacks, pulled her silver hair straight back from her face, slipped on her black DK spectacles with the sparkling rims, grabbed her cane and headed over to class for the party....
Tags: Fine Artists, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Physical Therapy, Arts and Culture, Health Treatments
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Medicinal pot is coming. Why it's not time to worry
If it goes through, we'll see a trade-off. Increases in addiction, crime and family dissolution along with assorted benefits. But enough about the proposed expansion of casino gambling in Illinois. Today I want to talk about the inevitability of...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Executive Branch, Health Treatments, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Politics
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Medical marijuana: Will Quinn go along?
A bill to legalize the medical use of marijuana has passed the Illinois General Assemly and now goes to Gov. Pat Quinn, who has yet to disclose whether he'll sign it. But based on his comments today, I'm betting he will. That wager rests on three things...
Tags: Executive Branch, Government, Politics, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Pat Quinn
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In Florida, timely injustice
At 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: Death Penalty, Crime, Law and Justice, Executive Branch, Rick Scott, Punishment
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Medical marijuana at last?
Illinois can't be accused of rushing to embrace medical marijuana: The first state to allow it did so in 1996, and the General Assembly is only now getting around to approving the idea. Whether it will become law is not clear: It now goes to Gov. Pat...
Tags: Health Treatments, Drugs and Medicines, Substance Abuse, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Pat Quinn
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What to get for the political dad who has everything
What do political dads really want on Father's Day? I'm not a political dad. So all I'd like is a pair of leopard-print spandex bike shorts and a Big Wheel Sidewalk Screamer, that I may go on bike rides with the mayor of Chicago. But what do political...
Tags: Jesse Jackson, Jr., U.S. Secret Service, Michael Madigan, Lisa Madigan, Crime, Law and Justice
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Kass: Mayor's shell game should have taxpayers clutching their wallets
I've got a feeling that in some weird, alternate universe, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is making a decent living playing hide-the-pea. You know the game, don't you? First, you put your money down. Then Mr. Misdirection places a pea under one of three cups....
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Scott Waguespack, Chicago Public Schools, Robert Fioretti, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Turkey president shops at Brooks Brothers and other NATO sightings
The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, had dinner at upscale Mexican restaurant Mercadito Monday while in Chicago for NATO. And as you would expect, he had plenty of company. Besides the Prince's table of seven, the large...
Tags: Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bulls, Human Interest, Mehmet Okur
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No more Rod Blagojevich sightings at Roots Pizza during Cowboys games
There’s a chance former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich would have gone to Roots Handmade Pizza in Ukrainian Village Wednesday to watch the Dallas Cowboys-New York Giants game on NBC, you know, if not for the fact that he’s serving a 14-year...
Tags: New York Giants, Rod Blagojevich
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First lady's attendance at Hadiya's funeral necessary and vital
Michelle Obama is not only first lady of the United States. She's also a mother of two young daughters. And she's coming home to the funeral of a girl who was killed in a park about a mile from the Obamas' Kenwood home. You've heard about Hadiya...
Tags: Hadiya Pendleton, Kenwood, Politics, Jesse Jackson, Interior Policy
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CSO's Citizen Musician seeks right note
A little more than two years ago, the curtain lifted on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra-led Citizen Musician initiative, and CSO Association President Deborah Rutter told an overflow crowd at the Chicago Cultural Center: “All of you are citizen...
Tags: Fine Artists, Arts and Culture, Pilsen, Aspen Institute, Chicago Children's Choir
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