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Is Rahm Emanuel the right choice for Chicago?

January 26, 2011 By Pepe Lozano

The Illinois Supreme Court will decide if Rahm Emanuel will stay on the mayoral ballot for Chicago's Feb. 22 election. But is he the right choice for Chicagoans?

California fast tracks health care reform

January 24, 2011

The contrast could not be starker. In the nation's capital, Congressional Republicans move to cripple, if not kill, health care reform. In California, state public officials and health care advocates move aggressively to pump life into...

Trumka: State of the Union must be a call to action on jobs

January 19, 2011 By John Wojcik And Jordan Farrar

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka urged President Obama to make next week’s State of the Union Address a “call to action, a call to invest in our future, to create jobs, to be the country we can...

Hundreds in Ohio protest in-coming Kasich administration

January 12, 2011 By Anita Waters

Thirty-six hours before Republican and former Fox News contributor John Kasich was sworn in as Ohio’s governor, people from across the state rallied voicing strong objections to his anti-labor, anti-environment and anti-student agenda.

House Republicans charge ahead with agenda

January 11, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

House Speaker, John Boehner, Ohio Republican, bowed to public outrage at the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Democrat, postponing for a week a vote to repeal the health care reform act she had voted for....