Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
A conservative watchdog group is suing Mayor Daley and the city for failing to turn over information about the Obama administration's involvement in Chicago's failed Olympic bid. The Washington, D.C.-based Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court Thursday accusing the Daley administration of failing to respond to a FOIA request sent in September. The group...
Corruption Chronicles (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it will file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's office to obtain records related to the Obama administration's failed bid to bring the Olympics to Chicago. President Obama tapped White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett to lead the...
THE iPINIONS JOURNAL (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
I was as proud as any non-Brazilian could have been last month when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded the 2016 Summer Olympics to Rio - despite high-profile lobbying by President Obama and Oprah for Chicago. [S]ince I was rooting for Brazil, my shock turned immediately to vindication because I knew that Chicago’s loss meant that Rio’s win was inevitable. [Olympic 2016...,...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Officials Wednesday scrambled to restore confidence in the country's infrastructure before soccer's 2014 World Cup and Rio's 2016 Olympics.
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
"Many universities have eliminated such marquee projects because of the recession. But U. of C. officials said the recession, as well as Chicago's failure to land the 2016 Summer Olympics, had aided them by driving down demand for construction work, thus leading contractors to offer lower prices."...
rahman | 11/10/2009
Celebrity Michelle Obama hot news Barak Obama andMichelle Obama US President Barack Obama and his wife first lady Michelle Obama walk on the south lawn after arriving back at the White House on October 2, 2009 in Washington, DC. President Obama later spoke to the media about his trip to Copenhagen to lend support to Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Olympics games which was announced today to be held
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Members of the conservative media, including Fox News, are attacking President Obama for not attending the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But when Obama has traveled abroad in the past -- including a trip in which Obama commemorated D-Day -- Fox News and figures at other media outlets have criticized him for supposedly going on an "apology tour." Fox,...
Roncesvalles (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Today they celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the following text is all over the Internet: President Obama squeezed in a trip to Copenhagen last month to lobby, unsuccessfully, for Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. He plans to travel to Oslo next month to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, an award that even Obama has said he does not deserve. And this coming week,...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara said Monday the capital will bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games and if successful will jointly organize the event with Hiroshima. Tokyo lost to Rio de Janeiro last month in the race to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Obama Draws Criticism for Sitting Out Berlin Wall Anniversary Boy President will sit out the anniversary of one of the greatest milestones of the late 20th century. Voting "Present" once again. President Obama squeezed in a trip to Copenhagen last month to lobby, unsuccessfully, for Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. He plans to travel to Oslo next month to accept the Nobel Peace Prize,...
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ISAF News (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Less than a month after Rio de Janeiro's election as the host of the 2016 Olympic Games, a delegation from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has paid the new host city a visit (30-31 October), as it continues to lay the groundwork for successful Games.
MEMORY PALACE (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Tower Ticker: U.S. Olympic Committee fighting newspaper effort to trademark 120-year-old name tags : trade marks, olympics Even as it was employing its special brand of diplomacy to advance Chicago's efforts to land the 2016 Games, the USOC was waging a trademark fight with McClatchy Co. over the name of newspaper, The Olympian, according to the publication based in, um, Olympia, Wash But what would...
The Saloon dot net (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Bloggers and their readers have "joked" about the New York Times being the official house organ of the Obama White House. Maybe it's not a joke. Earlier this month (as seen at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), several bloggers caught the Times making significant changes to its initial coverage of Chicago's humiliating loss of its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, and of President Obama's involvement...
Sify (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Less than a month after Rio de Janeiro was chosen to host the 2016 Olympics, International Olympic Committee (IOC) representatives are meeting with Brazilian authorities to draw up a plan of action to prepare the Games.
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