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Broadview arrangement clouds campaign disclosure reportsU.S. Rep. Danny Davis, state Rep. Karen Yarbrough and a township Democratic organization operated for years out of a village-owned building in near-west suburban Broadview.
The Chicago Teachers Union attacked Chicago Public Schools' efforts to lengthen the school day Friday by filing a complaint of unfair labor practices and accusing Mayor Rahm Emanuel of cursing and yelling at CTU President Karen Lewis during an earlier meeting on the topic.
Old-school educator and Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis standing up to City HallThe woman who once promised a boxing match with Mayor Rahm Emanuel for the rights of teachers and the hearts of Chicago's public school children is getting up off the mat.
Hundreds gather to share their stories and urge Reps. Maxine Waters, Karen Bass and Laura Richardson to push corporations to help fix the economy and devise ways to put people back to work.Sabino Fernandez lost his job assembling auto parts three years ago. With that, he said, he lost his ability to sustain his family.
With negotiations over rescinded teacher raises to resume next week, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis expounded Tuesday on her position regarding longer school days.
Los Angeles Democrat Karen Bass draws a crowd at USC for a forum on how the national healthcare law will be implemented in California and the efforts in Congress and the courts to change the law.Eunha Yi is 71 and has back problems. But with threatened cuts to state and federal healthcare programs, how will low-income seniors like herself cope? she asked.
Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis says the threat of a teachers strike this year is "very high."
Even if agreement were reached, unlikely to begin in September, experts sayChicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard and Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis met Tuesday, and one of the topics on the table was a longer school day.
As budget hearings begin this week, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis says the district's proposed property tax increase is a "Band-Aid" approach to fixing its funding woes.
Karen Flores, supervisor of the department business office, is charged with grand theft and held on $250,000 bail.One of the Santa Barbara Police Department's top civilian employees was arrested on suspicion of embezzling more than $100,000 in parking ticket revenue over several years, the department said Friday.
Periodically someone comes up with a bright new "aid" idea that generates a lot of discussion about effective aid and good intentions. Last year it was one million used t-shirts to Africa. When I sent a tweet about ineffective aid, saying "Your old stuff is not good aid", a follower of mine challenged me. She didn't think my statement sat well with my 'zen' approach to life: "Zen teaches...
Incoming schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard had his first meeting with Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis Monday, and here's the good news--neither was wearing boxing gloves.
Last month when the Illinois Senate passed an education reform bill, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis spoke in support of the measure.
Army Sgt. Karen Moore was shot and killed on April 7. Her juvenile daughter has been charged with her murder. Police tell CBS Atlanta News the altercation occurred as a result of a disagreement over the juveniles boyfriend.
They collect, preserve and share the voices of the past. Changes in technology could give them a far wider audience — and even more video — if that's what they want.The first to speak, Karen Harper, came right out and admitted it:
So many of us search all the time for what really helps when things in life get difficult. Last year I had the honor of interviewing Karen Kissel Wegela about "The Courage to Be Present." Karen has been a core faculty member at Naropa University for more than 29 years, focusing on contemplative psychotherapy -- bringing together Buddhism and traditional psychotherapy. She has a private pr...
Former Mission College vice president Karen Hoefel was overseeing a multimillion-dollar campus construction program in which her family's company was hired as a subcontractor.The Los Angeles County district attorney's office has opened an investigation into an alleged conflict of interest on the part of a former community college official whose family business was paid more than $500,000 for worki...
'Guardian angels were watching me,' she saidKaren Begg was stepping aboard her Metra train as usual Thursday morning when the doors suddenly closed on her, grabbing hold of her left arm and the cane that was in her hand.
By Bandu de Silva It looks as if all Pundits have spoken their mind on the recent performance of the Foreign Service and there is nothing more left to be said. But as an old Foreign Service hand, now watching...
Verizon is adding 135 jobs to its call center in Greenville.The Greenville News reported that Verizon plans to add the jobs in the next two months to help with customer service and technical support calls.The telecommunications company already employs about 1,200 people at a complex off Interstate
Karen Kubly says the LAPD should have opened a theft investigation after Rudy Martinez — then a department volunteer, now a candidate for L.A. City Council — was found in possession of her brother's badge. The sister of a slain police officer whose badge has become an issue in a bruising political campaign criticized the Los Angeles Police Department on Monday, saying it should have pu...
Lexington High School's principal for the last 9 years is retiring. According to a release from Lexington County School District One superintendent Karen Woodward, Principal B. Creig Tyler plans to retire at the end of the 2010-2011 school year. Creig began his career in public education in 1970 as a teacher and coach at Spring Valley High School. He taught and coached at other local high schools ...
Missionaries plan to spend 10 months of year working with at-risk Russian kids: 'I know that this is where I am supposed to be'Adopted as an infant, Karen Mead says she has a special kinship with all the children she has encountered in Russian orphanages over the last decade — dozens of them.
We send ourselves to school to get titles and degrees, to acquire knowledge and develop the intellect. We comb the far corners of the world to explore, see or experience more. We strive in our jobs and careers in order to become richer, promoted faster or accredited and known in the process. We save and scheme and plan for a bigger house or more luxurious car, to live in a better neigh...
It is not unusual for patients to ask Dr. Karen Wu if she is strong enough to perform surgery.
Passengers recount three days at sea without hot food, showers, air conditioning, laundry service or any of the pleasures of a luxury cruise after an engine room fire disables the Carnival Splendor.Karen Blocker, an early riser, was about to head off for an elegant breakfast of eggs Benedict when the walls of her stateroom aboard a cruise ship bound for the Mexican Riviera began to shake. Then the...
privacy.In this day of YouTube, blogs and 24-hour news networks with 1,440 minutes of airtime to fill a day...
New labor president faces threat of layoffs, larger class sizes Incoming Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis promised a vigorous stand against proposed job cuts and class size increases and said the union would produce its own answers to the district's money troubles.
Two open congressional seats are almost sure to go to Democrat Karen Bass and Republican Jeff Denham. An Assembly race in the Central Valley features a political family feud. The California legislative and congressional district races on this week's primary ballot fell mostly into two categories: those whose...