What happened to Cuba’s Oswaldo Payá?
Did Cuban national Oswaldo Payá die in a straightforward auto accident, or was he killed by Cuban government forces?
Did Cuban national Oswaldo Payá die in a straightforward auto accident, or was he killed by Cuban government forces?
Indiana House Democrats have ousted Patrick Bauer, who led the caucus for the last decade, and are replacing him with Hammond’s Linda Lawson
Everyone’s favorite probable republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is still mulling over his his choice for vice president, despite the fact that John Nance Gardner, FDR’s Vice President, famously mentioned that the post isn’t worth “a warm Bucket of Spit.” That hasn’t stopped interested parties in offering up their services and stepping up to the plate. Theater critic Stephanie Shaw is one of them.
In silence on Wednesday, Chicago’s City Council agreed to spend more than $7 million to settle a pair of lawsuits filed by victims of police torture.
Gov. Pat Quinn sparked frustration among civil rights advocates by signing a new police wiretap law on Tuesday.
In January, the city council signed off on new boundaries for Chicago’s wards. But the mapmakers had been up the whole night before tinkering and making adjustments to appease aldermen. That meant some of the legal descriptions for the wards were off, inaccurate, wrong.
On Wednesday, the City Council will vote to approve a set of supposedly “technical” corrections to Chicago’s ward remap that was approved in January. The corrections run 58 pages.