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Rod Blagojevich

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    April 23, 2009

    Lost in Blagoland: Disgraced Guv Headed to L.A.

    The corruption suspect formerly known as the Governor of Illinois was told by a judge Monday to forget about traveling to Costa Rica to tape the NBC reality TV show, I'm Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here! Clearly U.S. District Judge James Zagel worried that Rod Blagojevich, once on foreign soil, ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2009

    SEIU: Force for Change or Purple People Eater?

    At a time when organized labor should be poised to charge into a new activist era with the President they helped elect last November, service-sector unions appear instead to be headed into civil war. After the garment and hotel workers unions merged in 2005 to create UNITE HERE, the two factions a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Villaraigosa could copy the Blagojevich billboard-removal crews

    People were cheering in Chicago and other parts of Illinois today after crews openly began dismantling the obnoxious blue signs that ousted Governor Milorad Blagojevich had slathered all over the state in an embarrassing effort to personally take credit for road projects.When I saw this efficient-lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2009

    SEIU Drops the Other Shoe -- And Has It Thrown Back

    Last Friday the Service Employees International Union announced that its executive board had voted to merge three of its California branches of long-term health-care workers into one mega-local. This would add 90,000-members from SEIU state locals 6434 and 521, to the union's 150,000-member United H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2008

    SEIU's Brush With Blagogate & Other Sorrows

    It seems like only yesterday that Andy Stern, who heads the giant Service Employees International Union (nearly two-million members), shocked the labor movement when, in July, 2004, he told the Washington Post's David Broder that both organized labor and the Democratic Party might be better off with ... More >>

  • News

    February 16, 2006

    The Shape of '06

    The Republicans have one theme, but that’s one more than the Democrats

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