Larry R. Rogers, Jr. http://www.larryrogersjr.com Committee to Re-Elect Commissioner Rogers Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:19:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Police cite funeral home with failing to properly care for human remains http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/police-cite-funeral-home-with-failing-to-properly-care-for-human-remains/ http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/police-cite-funeral-home-with-failing-to-properly-care-for-human-remains/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:19:09 +0000 lrjadmin http://www.larryrogersjr.com/uncategorized/police-cite-funeral-home-with-failing-to-properly-care-for-human-remains/ A South Side funeral home whose sales practices were under federal investigation was hit with a city ordinance violation Monday for “failure to provide adequate shelter, protection, care and disposition of deceased human remains,” police said. Read More

by Chicago Sun-Times
]]> http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/police-cite-funeral-home-with-failing-to-properly-care-for-human-remains/feed/ 0 Obamacare’s wreckage http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/obamacares-wreckage/ http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/obamacares-wreckage/#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2012 02:00:58 +0000 lrjadmin http://www.larryrogersjr.com/uncategorized/obamacares-wreckage/ WASHINGTON — Give him points for cleverness. President Barack Obama’s birth control “accommodation” was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) institutions to provide medical insurance that guarantees free birth control, tubal ligation and morning-after abortifacients — all of which violate church doctrine on the sanctity of life. Read More

by Charles Krauthammer – chicagotribune.com
]]> http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/obamacares-wreckage/feed/ 0 Police use stolen Apple MacBook’s tracking software to find it http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/police-use-stolen-apple-macbooks-tracking-software-to-find-it/ http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/police-use-stolen-apple-macbooks-tracking-software-to-find-it/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:20:37 +0000 lrjadmin http://www.larryrogersjr.com/uncategorized/police-use-stolen-apple-macbooks-tracking-software-to-find-it/ Police used tracking technology to trace a $4,500 laptop that was swiped from a Hinsdale office building — and caught the alleged thief still holding it, police said. The 17-inch Apple MacBook laptop had been left in a conference room of an office building. Its owner went to lunch and returned to find it gone. He called police, who activated the machine’s internal tracking technology. Police traced it to a home in Addison, and officers from Hinsdale and Addison went out at 5 p.m. Wednesday. When they got to the home, they saw a barefoot man leaving through the back … Read More

by Chicago Sun-Times
]]> http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/police-use-stolen-apple-macbooks-tracking-software-to-find-it/feed/ 0 City advances plan to target sellers of hallucinogenic bath salts http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/city-advances-plan-to-target-sellers-of-hallucinogenic-bath-salts/ http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/city-advances-plan-to-target-sellers-of-hallucinogenic-bath-salts/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:14:39 +0000 lrjadmin http://www.larryrogersjr.com/uncategorized/city-advances-plan-to-target-sellers-of-hallucinogenic-bath-salts/ Chicago would go after head shops, bars, gas stations and other businesses that sell synthetic stimulants disguised as bath salts that mimic the effects of cocaine, Ecstasy and methamphetamines under a crackdown advanced Tuesday to stay one step ahead of the profiteers. Less than two months after banning synthetic marijuana, the City Council’s Finance Committee moved to block a product already illegal under state law but still sold with impunity. Bath salts have become increasingly popular with student athletes because they don’t show up on drug tests. The ordinance was approved unanimously after Cara Smith, deputy chief of staff to … Read More

by Chicago Sun-Times
]]> http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/city-advances-plan-to-target-sellers-of-hallucinogenic-bath-salts/feed/ 0 Judge bans woman from Nieman Marcus http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/judge-bans-woman-from-nieman-marcus/ http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/judge-bans-woman-from-nieman-marcus/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:25:16 +0000 lrjadmin http://www.larryrogersjr.com/uncategorized/judge-bans-woman-from-nieman-marcus/ A Cook County Judge has banned a South Side woman from shopping at high-end designer department store Nieman Marcus. Deli worker Vicky Davis, 44, was banned from the Magnificent Mile landmark Sunday by Judge Peggy Chiampas during a brief court hearing. Prosecutors allege Davis — who is charged with felony retail theft — tried to walk out of Nieman Marcus on Saturday with a $745 Fendi designer handbag she had not paid for. If she manages to pay 10 percent of her $10,000 bail and get out of Cook County Jail, “You cannot go shopping at Nieman Marcus,” Chiampas told … Read More

by Chicago Sun-Times
]]> http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/judge-bans-woman-from-nieman-marcus/feed/ 0 The Gospel according to Obama http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/the-gospel-according-to-obama/ http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/the-gospel-according-to-obama/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000 lrjadmin http://www.larryrogersjr.com/uncategorized/the-gospel-according-to-obama/ WASHINGTON — At the recent National Prayer Breakfast, seeking theological underpinning for his drive to raise taxes on the rich, President Barack Obama invoked the highest possible authority. His policy, he testified “as a Christian,” “coincides with Jesus’ teaching that ‘for unto whom much is given, much shall be required.’ ” Read More

by Charles Krauthammer – chicagotribune.com
]]> http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/the-gospel-according-to-obama/feed/ 0 Two toddlers abandoned on South Side street http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/two-toddlers-abandoned-on-south-side-street/ http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/two-toddlers-abandoned-on-south-side-street/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:32:00 +0000 lrjadmin http://www.larryrogersjr.com/uncategorized/two-toddlers-abandoned-on-south-side-street/ Two toddlers were left alone on a chilly street in Hamilton Park Friday on the South Side, and police are now trying to find out who abandoned them. A white minivan dropped off the children — a boy and girl believed to each be about two years old — on the street in the 7100 block of South Normal, an alert from Wentworth Area detectives said. Both children are described as 2-feet-6, 30-pound African-American children with a medium complexion, black hair and brown eyes, police said. DCFS has taken protective custody of both children, police said. Anyone with information about … Read More

by Chicago Sun-Times
]]> http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/two-toddlers-abandoned-on-south-side-street/feed/ 0 County board to debate controversial immigration policy http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/county-board-to-debate-controversial-immigration-policy/ http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/county-board-to-debate-controversial-immigration-policy/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:27:47 +0000 lrjadmin https://www.larryrogersjr.com/uncategorized/county-board-to-debate-controversial-immigration-policy/ Cook County commissioners will be on the hot seat Thursday as they face critics and supporters of a controversial policy directing the county sheriff to ignore requests from the feds to hold suspected illegal immigrants in jail longer. Immigration rights activists, expected to show up by the dozens at a public hearing in the downtown county board room, will call on elected leaders to stand by the new policy, which saves county taxpayers money and some of the U.S. citizens drawn in to deportation investigations, merely because of their last names. Brian McCann, too, is expected to testify that the … Read More

by Chicago Sun-Times
]]> http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/county-board-to-debate-controversial-immigration-policy/feed/ 0 Man who cut baby from mother’s womb can argue he didn’t get fair trial http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/man-who-cut-baby-from-mothers-womb-can-argue-he-didnt-get-fair-trial/ http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/man-who-cut-baby-from-mothers-womb-can-argue-he-didnt-get-fair-trial/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:24:00 +0000 lrjadmin http://www.larryrogersjr.com/uncategorized/man-who-cut-baby-from-mothers-womb-can-argue-he-didnt-get-fair-trial/ Fedell Caffey, the man who cut a baby from his mother’s womb in 1995, hideously killing her and two of her children, will get a chance to argue that he was denied a fair trial, a federal judge has ruled. Read More

by Chicago Sun-Times
]]> http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/man-who-cut-baby-from-mothers-womb-can-argue-he-didnt-get-fair-trial/feed/ 0 Pressing hard for the fall of Assad http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/pressing-hard-for-the-fall-of-assad/ http://www.larryrogersjr.com/current-news/pressing-hard-for-the-fall-of-assad/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000 lrjadmin http://www.larryrogersjr.com/uncategorized/pressing-hard-for-the-fall-of-assad/ WASHINGTON — Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow. It prefigured the collapse of the Soviet Union itself just two years later. Read More

by Charles Krauthammer – chicagotribune.com
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