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Jun 01 2023
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Former Mayor Lightfoot to teach class at Harvard as fellow
BOSTON — Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is headed to Harvard this fall. On Thursday morning, the university announced the appointment of Lightfoot as a Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow for the upcoming fall term. She will teach a course in the Health, Policy and Management Department tentatively titled “Health Policy and Leadership” at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School
WGNJun 01 2023
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Ex-Chicago Mayor Lightfoot to teach course at Harvard
Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will teach a course at Harvard University after decisively losing her bid to serve another term as leader of the Windy City. Lightfoot took third place in the first round of voting earlier this year, earning just 16.8% of the vote. Her tenure was marred by rampant crime, an issue that became a focal point for her challengers during the campaign. The Harvard
Just The NewsFeb 28 2023
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Lightfoot is out, Vallas and Johnson are in — the April runoff
Lori Lightfoot, the first Black woman and the first openly gay person ever to serve as mayor of Chicago, on Tuesday became a one-term mayor. With more than 97 % of the precincts reporting, the mayor who guided Chicago through the pandemic finished third in Tuesday’s election with 16.8% of the vote behind former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas, who won 34.06 % and Cook County
Chicago Sun-TimesMay 09 2023
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Lightfoot Gives Farewell Address With Notes Of Optimism And Hope
Get more in-depth, daily coverage of Chicago politics at The Daily Line. CHICAGO — Mayor Lori Lightfoot gave her farewell address Monday touting her four years as mayor as one marked not only by challenges like the pandemic, civil unrest and an inherited budget deficit but one filled with hope and equity. Lightfoot has less than one week left in her term before Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson is
Block Club ChicagoNov 30 2023
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Lori Vallow Daybell extradited to Arizona county jail
POCATELLO, Idaho (ABC4) — Lori Vallow Daybell has been moved from the Pocatello Women’s Correctional Center in Idaho to the Maricopa County Jail in Arizona where she faces charges of conspiracy to commit murder, according to reporting from East Idaho News. Daybell’s inmate page on the Idaho Department of Correction’s website confirmed Daybell was not currently at the facility as of 3:34 a.m.
ABC4 UtahDec 13 2023
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The Hill’s Changemakers: Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.)
The first-term lawmaker broke new ground this year when she became the first Republican woman to represent Oregon in the House. And she’s quietly emerging as an independent voice within the heavily conservative GOP conference. Those dynamics were on full display in September, when hard-liners joined forces to block a series of government spending bills, including a popular Pentagon package. In
The HillMar 01 2023
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Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Blames Election Loss on Identity
Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot pinned the blame for her election loss on her race and gender on Tuesday night, telling reporters that she believed she was treated inequitably in her reelection bid. Lightfoot garnered just 17.1% of the vote and third place in the election, failing to advance to a runoff that will pit two more Democrats, Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson, against each other. Asked
MediaiteFeb 27 2023
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Chicago Mayor Lightfoot taking on 8 rivals in reelection bid
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is fighting for reelection Tuesday after a history-making but tumultuous four years in office and a bruising campaign threaten to make her the city's first one-term mayor in decades. Lightfoot in 2019 became the first Black woman and first openly gay mayor of the third-largest U.S. city,
Midland Daily NewsJun 02 2023
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Lightfoot goes from Chicago mayor to teaching health at Harvard
Ousted Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will be teaching a health course at Harvard University this fall, The Harvard Gazette announced this week. Ms. Lightfoot lost her reelection bid in February after leading the nation’s third-largest city during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although she closed hair salons and barbershops to purportedly thwart the virus, she came under scrutiny for getting her hair
Washington TimesDec 07 2023
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Lori Vallow Daybell pleads not guilty to Arizona conspiracy charges
PHOENIX — Lori Vallow Daybell pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges in Arizona of conspiring to kill her husband and her niece’s ex-husband. Dressed in an orange Maricopa County Jail uniform, Daybell had little to say during the brief arraignment. She said her name and birthdate when a judge asked her and the court issued a not guilty plea on her behalf. A grand jury indicted Daybell in June
East Idaho News