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Paul Hogarth: Obama Rejected Illinois Rent Control Ban

huffingtonpost.com     yesterday   6 related          

Chicago does not have rent control. SB 531 passed with little fanfare: the State House voted for it 96-18, and the State Senate approved it 46-6. While it's valid to say that he should have done more to defeat it, consider that...                

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Perhaps the greatest misconception about Barack Obama is that he is some sort of...

reddit.com     Jul 21, 2008          

"Perhaps the greatest misconception about Barack Obama is that he is some sort of anti-establishment revolutionary." Ryan Lizza, Making It: How Chicago Shaped Obama, New Yorker, July 21, 2008 The question is which Chicago...                

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Calm steadiness in a life of change

chicagotribune.com     Jul 20, 2008          

Anyone wobbling through a change in life could learn something from Leslie Hunter. By the time he got to college, Hunter, a 34-year-old with a broad, calm face, had moved 16 times. The one steady force in Hunter's childhood was...                

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My assorted thoughts on the New Yorker Obama piece

marathonpundit.blogspot.com     Jul 18, 2008   2 related          

Hendon, a filmmaker. I won't rehash Lizza's account of their run-ins, but he leaves out another point of contention--Obama is a South Sider, Hendon lives on the West Side of Chicago.But Lizza missed an intregal component of...                

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Latinos for Obama maps massive national campaign

freerepublic.com     Jul 17, 2008   11 related          

SAN DIEGO — “I’m not taking a single Latino vote for granted,” Sen. Barack Obama promised thousands at the National Council of La Raza’s national conference here, July 13. To show his seriousness, right after Obama’s speech his...                

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Alice Singleton: Dear Jesse, Thanks for the Ride. Here's Where You Get Off.

huffingtonpost.com     Jul 15, 2008          

We got Barack, we got David Banners and Young Jeezys. NAS, Rap Artist Dear Jesse, Well, I saw this coming. The same week that rapper Nas and your black conservative nemesis, Larry Elder, merge into intra-racial harmony on your...                

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Nutcuttergate -- the backstory

thegspot.typepad.com     Jul 10, 2008   1,050 related          

By Kathy G. By now I assume you all have heard about Nutcuttergate -- i.e., Jesse Jackson's private comment, inadvertently caught on tape, that he wanted to "cut [Barack Obama's] nuts out" because of the allegedly patronizing...                

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Salman Rushdie Tonight

chicagoist.com     Jul 11, 2008          

If you're hankering for a little bit of controversy and a lot of culture tonight, Sir Salman Rushdie will be reading from his new novel, The Enchantress of Florence. Enchantress is a sort of Arabian Nights, set when a European...                

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Obama-Rezko Redux

noquarterusa.net     Jul 11, 2008          

Barack Obama was recruited to become a community organizer in Chicago twenty years ago. After three years of doing this work, Obama realized that he could have far more influence in Illinois if he pursued a career in politics...                

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Markus Ziener: Barack Obama: Forensics on the Southside

huffingtonpost.com     Jul 9, 2008   12 related          

He who finds nothing else lands here: Altgeld Gardens, 20 miles south of elegant downtown Chicago, in the middle of the notorious Southside -- a housing project for those who cannot pay more than 50 dollars a month for rent....                

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