Jason McDermott can be the most ingratiating young man: a born politician. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Huguette Clark has had her own tax liens - four times, the IRS has filed to collect taxes from her. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
In Minneapolis, the overhead sky walks protect pedestrians from the winter cold and snow. — Bill Dedman Cold Copy Share Image
The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk… — Bill Dedman Alaska Copy Share Image
The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument… — Bill Dedman Access Copy Share Image
Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Nine of 10 whites in Chicago borrow from top-drawer banks and mortgage companies, which the industry calls prime lenders. They lend to… — Bill Dedman Banks Copy Share Image
Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
In votes cast, Latinos have increased to five million in the 1996 Presidential election, up from two million in the 1976 election.… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a… — Bill Dedman Beach Copy Share Image
Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Community groups contend that door-to-door loan sales are often followed by foreclosures. — Bill Dedman Community Copy Share Image
I'm not in the what-people-feel business. It is not my place to guess. — Bill Dedman Business Copy Share Image
Some employees are protected by union or personal contracts that limit reasons for dismissal. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
The Secret Service once watched for people who fit the popular profile of dangerousness: the lunatic, the loner, the threatener, the hater. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups. — Bill Dedman Ballet Copy Share Image
Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws. — Bill Dedman Agriculture Copy Share Image
Humidity notwithstanding, summer seems to bring out the best of Cincinnati. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, the Police Department buys a 40-foot refrigerated trailer truck every six months just to hold DNA evidence. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work. — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Like most other states, Illinois has little regulation of the economic interests of legislators and relies on public disclosure to keep the… — Bill Dedman Disclosure Copy Share Image
In 1900, the typical American was a boy, not yet a teenager, named John. He lived with his parents and his sisters,… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
New York state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting gifts from clients 'for the benefit of the lawyer or a person related… — Bill Dedman Benefit Copy Share Image
For the first six years of his career, Sammy Sosa was one of the least patient players in the game. He could… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Mohammed al-Qahtani was not alleged to be a leader of the Sept. 11 plot. He was not trained as a pilot. If… — Bill Dedman Alleged Copy Share Image
