DES MOINES – At the Valley High School fieldhouse – covered in the banners of past victories and exclamations of “GO TIGERS!” – Precinct 211 caucus chairman Jim Arneson tallied the votes of his neighbors and friends. This was one of 1,800 sites across Iowa where residents gathered to vote for their favorite GOP...
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It’s been a wild ride for Republican presidential challengers in Iowa, and Newt Gingrich is the latest candidate with motion sickness. Gingrich, the former U.S. House Speaker, finished a distant fourth in Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation presidential contest. Predicting the winner of the Iowa GOP caucuses had been nearly impossible, with candidates taking turns sliding up...
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DES MOINES – Only 100 people were expected to attend GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul’s event at the Downtown Marriott Hotel Monday morning, but the room soon filled with more than 400 journalists and supporters of all ages. With Paul’s strong showing in the influential Des Moines Register Poll, the 12-term Texas congressman attracted...
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Political analysts have been predicting that the Occupy Movement was beginning to die, but ChicagoTalks reporter Paris Lewbel, in Des Moines for the 2012 caucuses, found the movement is going strong in Iowa. He met some Chicagoans who traveled to the Hawkeye State to witness the nation’s first presidential nominating contest.    
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DES MOINES – As the final hours tick away before the nation’s first nominating contest of 2012, another presidential hopeful monitors what’s happening from outside the state. Jill Stein, a doctor and Highland Park native, is watching the action from her home in Lexington, Mass. Because she’s running as a Green Party candidate, Stein...
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DES MOINES – A prominent evangelical leader in Iowa may be spreading his message in Chicago if GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s popularity surge continues beyond the Iowa caucuses. “We have thousands of supporters, and were very blessed to have many people in Iowa and across the country who really believe in what were...
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The Occupy Movement has captured lots of attention, and there is an opportunity to learn more about the theory behind modern political movements from a couple of political thinkers. Check out Political Disobedience vs. Revolution: An Exchange and Debate on the Significance and Implications of the Occupy Movement. | Occupy Chicago. Friday, Dec. 2nd...
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Despite a dramatic protest by mental health activists outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office that lasted 10 hours, the city council unanimously approved the 2012 budget, which includes downsizing the city’s 12 mental health clinics to six sites.
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A recent study from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found opium cultivation up 7 percent from 2010, and that the most insecure regions in Afghanistan were responsible for 95 percent of its opium cultivation.
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On Nov. 7, more than fifty seniors, their allies and religious leaders were arrested for occupying the intersection of Clark Street and Jackson Boulevard, as part of a protest calling on Congress to fight and support a budget plan that protects and preserves vital social safety net programs.
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