The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release December 10, 2009 Remarks by the President at the Acceptance of the Nobel Peace PrizeOslo City Hall
Oslo, Norway
1:44 P.M. CET
THE PRESIDENT: Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens [...]
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release December 10, 2009
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
Oslo City Hall
Oslo, Norway
1:44 P.M. CET
THE PRESIDENT: [...]
The court-appointed monitor tapped to clean up hiring practices at City Hall has issued another stinging report detailing "the most significant instance" yet of city foot-dragging when reporting apparent violations of [...]
Courtesy of The City Releases The "Shadow Budget" by Mick Dumke at Chicago Reader
Paul John HigginsAfter months of FOIA wrangling with City Hall, we’ve finally acquired a copy of the city’s “shadow budget”—the list of allocated and proposed uses for the half a billion dollars a year in taxpayer money that the Daley administration has previously refused [...]
In just two days, the Chicago City Council will put Mayor Daley's $6.1. billion budget to a vote. From the looks of various news reports, even some of the mayor's staunchest allies remain concerned about his plan to plug the budget hole by pulling another $370 million from the' [...]
Below are our daily picks from the Illinois blogosphere and media at large:
Legal Aid For City Hall Crusaders
The SouthtownStar's Phil Kadner
profiles the Center for Open Government, a new legal aid clinic at the Chicago-Kent College of Law that focuses on cases "where average
citizens who cannot afford an attorney'" [...]
The Windy City edition of the New York Times debuted today, featuring an article on the controversial parking meter lease from veteran City Hall reporter Dan Mihalopoulos, now with the Chicago News Cooperative.
In his report, Mihalopoulos digs into the books of Chicago Parking Meters LLC, the private company that now controls the [...]
The Chicago City Council held its full monthly meeting yesterday. We've got some of the highlights:
Budget Priorities Take A Beating
All eyes have been on Mayor Daley's 2010 spending plan as of late, which relies on $370 million from the city's asset-sale proceeds to help balance next year's $6.14 billion budget. Despite' [...]
A few months back, a coalition of community activists from across Chicago met at City Hall to call out the Daley administration for investing so few tax increment financing (TIF) dollars in affordable housing. After all, over the past decade, a mere 4 percent of the economic development money has gone towards [...]
