U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in front of Post-Dispatch Platform. Eddie Roth/Post-Dispatch
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was in town yesterday afternoon, ostensibly to talk about federal spending for job creation and economic recovery. But it turns out he had monumental plans,…
Late this afternoon, the Treasury Department is scheduled to announce the results of so-called “stress tests” applied to America’s 20 largest banks. The idea is to determine how well they are prepared to handle further downturns in the economy.
The topic…
Sen. Dick Durbin’s much-discussed (and much-cussed) mortgage “cram down” legislation may come to a vote in the U.S. Senate this week, possibly as early as tomorrow. It deserves to pass. Thanks to the stranglehold that the banking industry has on Republican…
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U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., D-Ill., has received the Chicago Sun-Times’ endorsement for the U.S. Senate seat recently vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.
Mr. Jackson spoke to us by telephone this morning seeking the Post-Dispatch’s support.
Kevin McDermott, from…
One year after beginning a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence for racketeering and fraud, former Illinois Gov. George Ryan still hasn’t admitted to or apologized for the systematic corruption that marked his single term as governor and his two terms as secretary of…
Chicago heavyweights Rod Blagojevich, Barack Obama and Richard M. Daley in 2007.
As Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich ponders the question of who should take President-elect Barack Obama’s barely warmed seat in the United States Senate, it’s safe to assume that the…
In the latest CBS/New York Times poll, only 12 percent of the American public approved of the way Congress was doing its job.
Nevertheless, come Nov. 4, 95 percent or more of U.S. House incumbents seeking reelection are expected to keep their…
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) met with the editorial board this afternoon to talk about health care, politics, the Redbirds, and the summer heat.
Click below to hear just one question for Sen. Dick Durbin:
Just one question for Sen. Dick Durbin
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A couple of weeks ago, Dick Durbin got a breakfast invitation from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. “This doesn’t happen all that often,” the Democratic senator from Illinois said dryly.
Ms. Rice wanted to talk about the U.S. response to the world…
