Chicago 2016 team asks for more ‘skin’
Chicago's Olympics officials, who got city taxpayers to put $500 million of "skin in the game" for their 2016 bid, are now aiming for an arm and a leg. When...
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CDC dust-up could infect Obama plan to cut waste
Most of us know the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as the government agency that fights epidemics, keeping track of everything from flu viruses to potential Ebola outbreaks. But...
Obama must offer hard numbers, and do it now
President-elect Barack Obama delivered a major address Thursday on the collapsing economy that sounded more like a campaign speech than what the nation really needs: a specific, detailed plan for...
Chief pork-cutter faces a fight
Appointed by President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday to the new position of chief performance officer, Nancy Killefer faces a struggle as old as government itself: vanquishing the forces of pork...
An opportunity to redefine the commerce post
Quick, name the great secretaries of commerce. Anyone? More than any other cabinet post, the job over the years has been used as a consolation prize for people with higher...
Carmaker bailout is best move for nation
"Save Our America, Buy American," reads a 10-foot-by-30-foot banner that Jeff Hobson, co-owner of the Gates Chevrolet Buick Pontiac GMC, slung across the entrance to one of the largest dealerships...
A scandal with scant whiff of Chicago
Chicago has gotten so used to being at the center of things -- with Barack Obama's comings and goings and Rod Blagojevich cussing into a wiretapped phone -- that it's...
History may ride on reign of ‘car czar’
It's a czar-crazed world these days. In this country, we have had more than one drug czar and a terrorism czar. President-elect Barack Obama apparently considered naming Al Gore as...
Blagojevich mess sullies business too
Now that Gov. Rod Blagojevich has become Public Enemy No. 1 -- portrayed as dropping f-bombs, squeezing even a children's hospital in his relentless quest for dough -- it is...
Will Tribune Co., old media survive ‘perfect storm’?
At his first town-hall-style meeting with employees in Chicago after taking Tribune Co. private, increasing the company's debt burden to $13 billion, Sam Zell declared, "We are in crisis." It...