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Barack Obama probably cannot fix every leaky roof and busted boiler in the nation’s schools. But educators say his sweeping school modernization program — if he spends enough — could jump-start student achievement.
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Republicans and Democrats alike are calling for Illinois lawmakers to begin impeachment proceedings against Gov. Rod Blagojevich, saying the step is necessary to restore public confidence in state government.
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From Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic Monthly:
Obama has a lot to face starting January 20th. Where the discussion isn’t going is the possibility that the first foreign policy crisis the administration will face will be the complete economic collapse of a large, unstable nation.
Read More...From Terence Samuel at TheRoot.com:
Blagojevich may be the one indicted, but Jesse Jackson Jr. has a real trial ahead of him.
Read More...John McCain paid a lighthearted visit to David Letterman on Thursday, joking: “I don’t want to talk about the bleeping campaign.”
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Barack Obama insists he didn’t have any contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich or anyone else who might have been scheming to sell the president-elect’s U.S. Senate seat. But he has not yet given his transition staff the same clean bill of health — perhaps with good reason.
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From Jack Healy at The NYTimes.com:
President-elect Barack Obama said on Thursday that he never spoke to the governor of Illinois about Mr. Obama’s replacement in the United States Senate, and that no one on his staff had been involved in any deal-making regarding Mr. Obama’s successor.
Read More...President-elect Barack Obama intends to round out his environmental and natural resources team with a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and three former Environmental Protection Agency officials from the Clinton administration.
