Nadia Zonis appears in the following:
Obama picks Panetta to head the CIA
Monday, January 05, 2009
President-elect Obama has named Leon Panetta, a former congressman and Chief of Staff to President Clinton, to run the CIA. It’s a controversial choice because Panetta is not an intel...
Richardson withdraws his name from consideration for administration post
Monday, January 05, 2009
Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico is no longer under consideration for the job of Secretary of Commerce in the Obama Administration. A grand jury is looking into charges of pay-t...
Virginia governor to head the DNC
Monday, January 05, 2009
Governor Tim Kaine will become chair of the Democratic National Committee when Howard Dean steps down later this month. Kaine's an energetic, gregarious leader who threw his support b...
Illinois, meet your new Senator (maybe)
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Yesterday embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich defied expectations and appointed a respected senior statesman in Illinois politics to fill the Senate seat of President-elect Ba...
Credit card companies more willing to negotiate
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
These are dark days for credit card companies--people are buying less on credit and having trouble paying their bills. Bad times for them may be good times for struggling borrowers, t...
Bailout veterans cash in
Monday, December 29, 2008
Happy days are here again for a group of former senior government officials who were involved in the savings and loan bailout of the 1990s. Now they are lawyers, investors, and lobbyi...
Pakistan commemorates assassination of Bhutto
Monday, December 29, 2008
One year has passed since the murder of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan. Meanwhile, tensions with neighboring India are high and there are reports that Pakistan is redeploying t...
This is your (developing) brain on poverty
Friday, December 26, 2008
Scientists have long suspected that poverty affects children’s brains. In recent years they’ve begun to use sophisticated imaging tools and other methods to understand exactly how the...
In With the New, But Recycle the Old
Friday, December 26, 2008
New York, NY —
If Santa brought you shiny new gadgets for Christmas this year, don't throw the old ones in the garbage.
Electronics like TVs, computers, and cell phones contain toxins that can pollute air and water. The Lower East Side Ecology Center will be holding four electronics recycling ...
Running the numbers on Congress
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Blogger Nate Silver made his name by using his skills as a baseball statistician to call the presidential race for Obama back in March. His site—FiveThirtyEight.com became the go-to s...
Bus Chick says public transit is romantic
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Seattle native Carla Saulter doesn't have a car, and her city doesn't have a subway, so she gets everywhere by bus. She says it's changed her life--for the better. Carla has become a ...
What foodies want from Obama
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Advocates for everything from healthier school lunches to more humane treatment of farm animals to sustainable agriculture see an ally in the future President, but so far there's not ...
Despite pledges of transparency, the bailout remains opaque
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Treasury and the Fed said they would be open about where the taxpayers' trillions of dollars are going. But two months into the bailout, we still don't know important details about th...
Immigrants convicted in Ft. Dix case
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Jurors have found five Muslim immigrants guilty of conspiring to kill US soldiers.
"One of the last prosecution witnesses was an FBI terrorism expert who got up on the stand ...
Last minute Bush Administration rule permits health care workers to deny services
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
In its final weeks the Bush Administration has issued a federal rule that allows health care workers to refuse to participate in any procedure they find morally objectionable. Doctors...
Report: No improper contact between Obama staffers and Blagojevich
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
President-elect Obama's aides will release a report today reportedly showing his transition team is clean. Meanwhile, the Illinois state senate committee considering impeachment of Bl...
The Economist's predictions for 2009 (and apologies to 2008)
Friday, December 19, 2008
For 23 years The Economist has published a special issue that predicts events of the coming year. The 2009 edition has just come out and it includes an apology from the editor-in-chie...
Two votes separate candidates in Minnesota senate race
Friday, December 19, 2008
The disputed Minnesota Senate race is now closer that it's ever been. Incumbent Republican Norm Coleman leads Democratic challenger Al Franken by two votes. Late yesterday the Minneso...
Illinois congressman to be transportation secretary
Friday, December 19, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama will announce his selection of Republican Illinois Congressman Ray LaHood as his transportation secretary today. While LaHood will be the second Republica...
Blagojevich hires legendary Chicago defense attorney
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Ed Genson defended R. Kelly and Conrad Black, not to mention countless mobsters and disgraced pols.
