Revolving door shifts stance on Taylorville Energy Center
Illinois political shifts unfold as Marlowe Colvin, ex-Representative and now ComEd lobbyist, joins the fight against Tenaska's $3.5 billion Christian County coal plant. Colvin’s move follows peers who became lobbyists, with Tenaska urging a House review before spring session ends.
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Taylorville Energy Center
Marlowe Colvin
Chicago
General Assembly
ComEd
Tenaska
Christian County
Colvin
Illinois
Kevin McCarthy
D-Orland Park
A.J. Wilhelmi
D-Joliet
House
Bart Ford
Ann Coulter on gun control and self defense
Ann Coulter argues that gun control schemes target the powerless and cites historical ties between Democrats and gun laws to claim self defense rights are being eroded. She links Trayvon Martin coverage to broader political aims and defends armed self defense linked to civil rights history.
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Trayvon Martin
Florida
MSNBC
Karen
Finney
Coulter
General Services Administration
Las Vegas
George Zimmerman
America
National Rifle Association
Ku Klux Klan
KKK
Democratic Party
Klan
American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU
NRA
Robert F. Williams
Williams
Monroe
N.C
NAACP
Black Armed Guard
Prostitution Scandal in Cartagena Overshadows Obama Latin America Policy
In Cartagena a U S presidential trip faced a sex scandal involving 11 Secret Service and five Army personnel, with reports of up to 20 women. The piece argues the incident distracts from policy debates like drug legalization, the Colombia FTA, and Latin American integration trends challenging U S influence.
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Colombia
U.S
Secret Service
Martin Dempsey
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
U.S. Secret Service
U.S. Army
Cartagena
Obama
Ethan Nadelmann
The
Drug Policy Alliance
Latin America
Vicente Fox
Mexico
Felipe Calderon
Nadelmann
Evo Morales
Bolivia
Coca Growers’ Union
United States
Milton Friedman
Juan Manuel Santos
FTA
Afl-Cio
Richard Trumka
Cuba
Rafael Correa
Greg Grandin
New York University
Washington
Grandin
Central America
Denis Moynihan
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Chenoa
Shedd Aquarium
Roger Eddy
Eddy
R-Hutsonville
Tom Cross
Mike Best
Wisconsin
Scott Walker
Springfield
Walker
Cheesehead Nation
Illinois Chamber of Commerce
Doug Whitley
Associated Press
John O’connor
O’connor
Whitley
Statehouse Way
Kurt Erickson
Lee Enterprises
Southern Illinoisan
Lee
Kurt
Statehouse Notes
Virginia
Roger Taney
Ulysses S. Grant
Grant
Martin Luther King
Alabama
Ann Coulter
Universal Press Syndicate
Amy Goodman
North America
New York Times
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