Archive for October, 2011

Chicago-bsed Boeing will announce an agreement with Space Florida on Monday to lease the hangar that housed the space shuttles to build similar craft that will bring people and cargo to space.

The deal with the state’s space agency will create 140 jobs…

Off season

The cooler weather has arrived, bringing nippier breezes to comb the changing colors of the leaves.

Yet just a couple of weeks ago, I was meandering through a park along the lakefront, enjoying an afternoon of surprisingly warm sunshine…

Maybe it’s just Halloween, but I’m spooked by the Occupy Wall Street thing.

Reminds me too much of 1968 through 1970, when a lot of my contemporaries took to the streets for peace in Vietnam … and instead gave us Richard Nixon.

Not that Nixon was…

Before Smoking Man, there was Obama Girl. And who can forget Jib Jab?

A new ad featuring Herman Cain’s smoking campaign manager Mark Block is the latest political video to become an overnight web sensation. The ad, with Block taking a deep drag on a…

Herman Cain may be battling with Mitt Romney atop the Republican presidential polls, but Romney remained the "target du jour" Sunday for both his current and possible future competition.

Boeing will announce plans to lease the hanger that housed the space shuttles to build similar crafts that will bring people and cargo to space.

Gov. Rick Scott’s office and President Barack Obama’s administration confirmed plans for the Monday…

U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is predicting he’ll be “vindicated” by an ethics investigation into whether he or someone on his behalf offered to raise funds for ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich in return for an appointment to President Barack Obama’s…

Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. says he’ll be “vindicated” in a U.S. House Ethics Committee probe.

The committee is investigating whether Jackson, or someone on his behalf, offered to raise funds for former Gov. Rod Blagojevich (blah-GOY’-uh-vich) in…