HUD DIDN’T PROBE NATION OF ISLAM PACTS
With some fanfare, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros made an unusual announcement for a Cabinet member in May, disclosing that he had called for an investigation into controversial...
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SCHOOLS UNVEIL $600 MILLION BUILDING PLAN
Five years after launching a school-construction program that has since come to symbolize waste and mismanagement at their worst, Chicago Public Schools officials are pursuing a new plan aimed at...
U.S. CHARGES PAIR IN OKLAHOMA BLAST
The indictment alleges: "Timothy James VcVeigh and Terry Lynn Nichols, the defendants herein, did knowingly, intentionally, willfully and maliciously conspire, combine and agree together and with others unknown to the...
NRA IN THE CROSS HAIRS
Attitudes have changed about guns in America, and so has the role of the National Rifle Association. Formed as a club for hunters, the group has shifted its focus to...
NRA’S RECENT VICTORIES CARRIED A HIGH COST
The NRA, with its membership of dedicated voters, played a central role in the GOP congressional victory last year. But these successes, along with a collection of other agenda items...
BOMB INQUIRY BRINGS CHAOS TO LOCAL FAMILY
Four days after the Oklahoma City blast, federal agents arrived at Sally Paulsen's Leyden Township home. Her 21-year-old nephew, David Paulsen, who lives with her, was being held in a...
OKLAHOMA BOMB PROBE SLOWING UP
Seeking to reduce public expectations after weeks of painstaking investigation have yielded little new public information, federal officials caution that new arrests are not likely soon in the Oklahoma City...
NICHOLS ORDERED HELD WITHOUT BAIL
A federal judge Friday brushed aside claims of unfair treatment by Oklahoma City bombing suspect Terry Nichols and ordered him held without bail pending his trial. Prosecutors bolstered their claim...
NEW SCHOOLS NOT IMPOSSIBLE
In the late 1980s, the New York public school system looked a lot like Chicago's: kids jammed into closets and bathrooms for lessons, buildings falling apart from neglect. An overcrowded...
SCHOOL BOARD’S LAND DEALS A TEXTBOOK CASE OF MISMANAGEMENT
In his windowless office at the board's Pershing Road headquarters, Murray began to sift through the cabinets full of gray files from which spilled copies of 19th Century deeds written...