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Quinn, Brady clash on federal cash
Clout StPosted by Ray Long at 9:35 p.m. SPRINGFIELD --- Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican challenger Bill Brady are clashing sharply on whether Congress should have approved nearly $1 billion for Illinois to help avoid teacher layoffs and pay for...... -
Quinn defends Teamsters donations and McCormick Place actions
Clout StPosted by Rick Pearson and Angie Leventis Lourgos at 12:50 p.m. Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn today defended his acceptance of $75,000 in campaign cash from the Teamsters union just before he rewrote legislation to help the union increase its ranks...... -
New GOP TV ad blasts Quinn, Blagojevich
Clout StPosted by Rick Pearson and Monique Garcia at 2:01 p.m.; updated with Quinn reaction at 3:21 p.m. The Republican Governors Association is pumping about $400,000 into the Chicago television market for a new ad assailing Gov. Pat Quinn as former...... -
State Farm To Raise Rates For Ill. Customers
(WGN-AM)- State Farm Fire and Casualty Company on Friday announced an average statewide rate increase of 13 percent for its Illinois homeowners insurance policyholders. The Bloomington-based company, which is the leading insurer of homes in the U.S....Tags: Chicago Tribune, Insurance, Illinois, WGN, Farms
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Complete list of 2009 Marconi Radio Award winners
Medium Market Station of the Year: WHO-AM, Des Moines Adult Contemporary Station of the Year: WBEB-FM, Philadelphia Major Market Personality of the Year: Matt Siegel, WXKS-FM, Boston Oldies Station of the Year: WMXJ-FM, Miami Spanish Format...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Los Angeles, Radio Industry, WGN, Chicago
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Insurers learn to pinpoint risks -- and avoid them
Times Staff WriterNEWARK, CALIF. — Hemant Shah is in the business of creating catastrophes. The computers at Shah's Silicon Valley company, Risk Management Solutions Inc., contain mathematical models of every U.S. disaster from the 1812 earthquake that toppled...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Disasters, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Meteorological Disasters, Politics
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Push is on to green up the gardening industry
"This is one of the most irresponsible industries I've ever seen," said Andersonville gardener Cai Gushak. "I'm almost ready to stop going to the garden center."
What has him fuming? Pots. Plastic pots, flats and trays that he can't recycle, all from...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Petroleum Industry, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Energy Saving, The Home Depot
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Seeing a brilliant light
The Rev. Timothy B. Thomas
Position: Rector of St. Nicholas Episcopal Church, Pompano Beach
Other job experience: Former associate rector, Trinity Church, New Orleans; associate rector, St. Francis Episcopal Church, Potomac, Md.; assistant rector,...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Evanston, Bloomington (Monroe, Indiana), Arturo Toscanini, Anglicanism
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Bouted - Announced - So What's Next?
It's been quite awhile since I updated this, but a lot has happened: 1. I participated as a skater in my first roller derby bout last month in Evansville. Not my finest moment, although I did get a few decent hits in. 2. I announced my first roller...Tags: Wayne, Illinois, Alabama, Fort Wayne (Allen, Indiana), Bloomington (Monroe, Indiana)
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From supporting actor to star, Richard Jenkins steps up in 'The Visitor'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHERE is no such thing as a Richard Jenkins movie, though he's been in more than 70 of them. Even in his best-known role -- as the mortuary paterfamilias, Nathaniel Fisher, on the HBO series "Six Feet Under" -- Jenkins was dead, haunting the characters...Tags: Death, William H. Macy, Colleges and Universities, Los Angeles, HBO (tv network)
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Salvaged in style
Times Staff WriterCARRIE CARR knows a good piece of trash when she sees it. Take the kitchen cabinet that she salvaged from an apartment building under renovation and turned into a glass-fronted display case. Or the living room piece — "my gangsta coffee table,"...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Family, Gifts, Rose Bowl Flea Market, Services and Shopping
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Storm moves on; outages, flight delays, clogged interstate remain
4:39 PM: The good news: The storm has moved out of the Chicago region, headed east. The bad news: Local temperatures are about to plunge. "Tonight, with clearing skies and snow pack, temperatures are going to drop pretty fast," said Tim Halbach,...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Employees, Euclid, Salt, Health and Safety at Work
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