Martine Powers
MARTINE POWERS
Briefly: Funding for Elm City Resident ID Card approved for additional year

After a rocky first year, the Elm City Resident Card has received the OK for a second go-around. The Board of Aldermen approved a $150,000 […]

November 10, 2008

MARTINE POWERS
Briefly: Aldermen honor Yalies for GOTV efforts

Three aldermen from Yale-affiliated districts recognized 12 Yale students in Thursday night’s Board of Aldermen meeting for the Elis’ get-out-the-vote efforts in last Tuesday’s election. […]

November 7, 2008

MARTINE POWERS
For dining staff, Obama win delights

When Linda, a Saybrook Dining Hall desk attendant, pulled into her Newhallville polling station early Tuesday morning, she burst into tears. The line was 60 […]

November 6, 2008

ISAAC ARNSDORF & MARTINE POWERS
SENATOR BARACK OBAMA ELECTED 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

CHICAGO — Sen. Barack Obama shattered racial barriers and ushered in a new era of American politics on Tuesday by decisively defeating his Republican rival […]

November 5, 2008

ISAAC ARNSDORF & MARTINE POWERS
Obama’s Chicago roots shape president-elect’s policies and viewpoints

CHICAGO — In recent elections, residents of the Hyde Park neighborhood of the South Side of Chicago could walk right into Beulah Shoesmith Elementary School […]

November 5, 2008

MARTINE POWERS
Hair statements

By Martine Powers CHICAGO, 5:00 p.m. – 17-year-olds Logan Spears and Miguel Pazoz from West Virginia visited Barack Obama’s former barbershop to have his name […]

November 4, 2008

MARTINE POWERS
Election Day, more like “Obama Day” in Hyde Park

By Martine Powers CHICAGO, 4:40 p.m. – According to 61-year-old Roilynn Brown, today is Obama day. “Obama day! Obama day!” Brown chants to passersby on […]

November 4, 2008

MARTINE POWERS
A Tune For Obama

By Martine Powers CHICAGO, 1:19 a.m. — As satellite uplink trucks from news stations worldwide thronged alongside the entrance to the site of Tuesday’s Obama […]

November 4, 2008

MARTINE POWERS
Senior citizens divided on candidates

Louis Esposito, 75, may hold onto his complementary potholder and sponge embellished with the names of Democrats Reps. Rosa DeLauro and Bob Megna, but he […]

November 4, 2008

ISAAC ARNSDORF, MARTINE POWERS & MARGY SLATTERY
City celebrates Obama

CHICAGO — Monday night was breezy and calm in Grant Park, except for news vans humming, security guards trolling and a lone street musician strumming, […]

November 4, 2008

ZEKE MILLER & MARTINE POWERS
Endorsements tilt toward Dems.

The lopsided tally of newspaper endorsements for the Democratic candidate in this year’s presidential election is a stark contrast from the record of previous election […]

November 3, 2008