by Sean Kennedy | May 20, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON – It’s been a month since the world learned of 270 girls kidnapped by Islamist terror group Boko Haram. The online community has taken action, with 3 million mentions of the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag, spurred on a high-profile endorsement from first lady...
by Sean Kennedy | May 20, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Former IRS official Lois Lerner has joined a very select club, becoming one of only a half-dozen people to be held in contempt by the entire U.S. House of Representatives. Conservatives in the House believe she improperly invoked her right against...
by Sean Kennedy | May 1, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON – The future of privacy in the digital age – at least when it comes to your hand-held device – could soon be decided by a deliberative body that doesn’t even allow cameras in its courtroom. The Supreme Court heard arguments this week that will decide...
by Sean Kennedy | Apr 30, 2014 | Politics
WASHINGTON – It took a mortal blow to the campaign finance law to bring former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens in front of a Senate committee after a 39-year absence. He hadn’t sat in front of the Senate since his confirmation in 1975, but he returned to...
by Sean Kennedy | Apr 23, 2014 | Environment
Southwest of Chicago, 100 million gallons of sewage churn in the open air. Soupy and turbid, the brown muck comes through the Stickney filtration plant, the largest wastewater-treatment facility in the world, at a million gallons a minute. Few Chicagoans think about...
