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Agent Wonders: Why Did St. Martin’s Say No to Blago?
Jarred Weisfeld was just about ready to file his $10 million defamation suit against Macmillan Publishers when he brought Rod Blagojevich to their building to see if St. Martin’s Press, the big...
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M.T.A. Doomsday and the Lessons of Chicago
A transit system in crisis, facing daunting budget gaps; a Democratic-controlled legislature can’t agree on a rescue package; an unpopular Democratic governor can’t broker a deal; an angry public...
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Appearing (Selectively) With Bloomberg
Not every image of Michael Bloomberg with a controversial (is that word strong enough?) figure has gone missing, as Adam Lisberg reported was the case with photographs of the mayor with Sarah Palin...
View ArticleGlass Houses
It's not an especially good sign for Governor David Paterson that even former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich--who was booted from office after trying to settle Barack Obama's old Senate seat--is...
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Blago’s New York Moment
“I can spin a basketball on all four fingers of my right hand,” said Rod Blagojevich. “The hardest transition is from the little finger to the ring finger because it’s got to go up.” Mr. Blagojevich...
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Blagojevich Pondering a Book About Great Historical Comebacks
In September of 2009, Phoenix Books published Rod Blagojevich's memoir-cum-proclamation-of-innocence, entitled "The Governor." Last week, the former governor of Illinois told The Observer that he is...
View ArticleRod Blagojevich Short on Advice For David Paterson
What advice, one troubled governor to another, would Rod Blagojevich give David Paterson? It's a question that Mr. Blagojevich says he gets all the time. When we met last week, Mr. Blagojevich was...
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Spokeswoman: Journal Reporter Arrested for ‘Routine Newsgathering’
A spokeswoman for the Wall Street Journal updated us on the arrest of reporter Douglas Belkin this morning at the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago, where he was covering the trial of Rod...
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Former IL Gov. Blagojevich Found Guilty of Lying to Feds
Distinctively coiffed former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been found guilty of just one count of lying to federal investigators. That's one count out of 24. The jury in Blagojevich's corruption...
View ArticleRod Blagojevich Takes the Stand on The Daily Show
Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich appeared on The Daily Show last night to speak about his corruption trial, which ended last week with not guilty rulings an all but one out of 24 charges. More...
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