The following was written by Jacob Swenson, a community activist and University of Chicago student.
Local environmental activists congregated outside of Argonne National Laboratories today, where President Obama was speaking about his plan to create a $2 Billion “Energy Security Fund" for alternative energy research.
In his speech, the President said that we must aim to move cars and trucks entirely off oil by developing cheaper batteries, biofuels, and vehicles that operate on natural gas. The research plan, which is consistent with the President’s “all-of-the-above” energy strategy, would be funded using royalties from offshore drilling.
Climate activists were only half-hearted by the President’s proposal.
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Labor union leaders gathered yesterday to demand comprehensive
immigration reform, joining in the fight for America’s more than 11
million undocumented immigrants.
Obama’s negative defining of Romney early in the 2012 presidential campaign was a
key factor in the 2012 election, three top Obama and Romney TV ad
staffers said at a panel discussion held Tuesday night at the University of
Chicago’s Institute of Politics.
In a last-ditch effort to reach voters in her hometown of Matteson,
former State Rep. Robin Kelly and Democratic candidate for the 2nd
Congressional District made a lunchtime stop at IHOP today.