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August 8, 1999

BRIAN BOYER, Television Documentarian
Award-winning television documentarian. Former reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times. Worked on ABC's 20/20 and a few years back, he produced a documentary on Newt Gingrich and the Republican revolution.

PENNY PULLEN, Conservative Activist
Elected State Representative and former Assistant House Republican Leader in Springfield, IL for 16 Years. Penny was also the Republican National Committeewoman from Illinois from 1984 - 1988. She has served on three national boards and commissions, appointed twice by President Ronald Reagan and once by President George Bush. Currently, she is directing a nationwide non-profit organization in the pro-life movement (Life Advocacy Resource Project) and is a member of Gov. George Ryan's transition team panel on Children & Families.

JIM WALL, Democratic Strategist
Editor of The Christian Century. He is a former sportswriter from Monroe, Georgia. Democratic activist and close friend of Jimmy Carter and Al Gore.

August 1, 1999

JACKIE GRIMSHAW, Democrat

DEBBIE HOWLETT, USA Today Bureau Chief - Chicago
Bureau Chief of USA Today in Chicago. Graduate of the University of Oregon.

KATHLEEN SULLIVAN, Republican
Director of Project Reality, a national organization that endorses abstinence until marriage. Formerly the Director of the Eagle Forum and a pro-family lobbyist for over 30 years. Sullivan was also a member of the Family Policy Board under President Ronald Reagan and has appeared on numerous national radio and television programs.

July 25, 1999

LEE NEWCOM, Conservative
Lee Newcom is a small business owner from Bloomington, Illinois, in the rural center of the state. He has a long history as a conservative Republican voice in Illinois politics, is a former elected county official and was also the Midwest Regional Director for the National Council of Republican County Officials. He now serves as a director of the United Republican Fund of Illinois. He is married with 3 small children, and was born and raised in Burbank, California, before moving to Illinois 17 years ago.

DAN PERRETEN, Divinity Student
A Democrat who is currently a researcher for the Park Ridge Center, a bioethics think tank. Formerly the Managing Editor of The Windy City Times, a leading Chicago gay and lesbian newsweekly, he now attends the University of Chicago Divinity School.

DAN MILLER, Chicago Sun-Times
New Business Editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. Formerly the Senior V.P. of the Heartland Institute and Director of the Illinois Commerce Commission.

July 18, 1999

JOE MORRIS, Republican - MRDchicago@aol.com
President of the United Republican Fund of Illinois. President of the Midwest Region of B'nai B'rith. Lawyer at Morris, Rathnau & De La Rosa in Chicago. Former senior official of the Reagan Administration.

JACKIE GRIMSHAW, Democratic Activist

July 11, 1999

SALIM MUWAKKIL, Former Black Panther - salim4x@aol.com
Senior Editor of "In These Times," one of the country's leading progressive periodicals. A native of the village of Harlem. Columnist for the Chicago Tribune and a former member of the Black Panther Party.

MARTY GERAGHTY, Real Estate Executive - mart@interaccess.com
Commercial Real Estate Executive active in the Republican Party. Former State legislative
aide and former alderman in Evanston, Illinois.

RICHARD KLING, Chicago-Kent College of Law
A criminal defense attorney since 1971. A Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he specializesd in Evidence, Forensics, Ethics and Professional Responsibility.

June 27, 1999

DAN MILLER, Heartland Institute
Senior V.P. of the Heartland Institute. Former Director of the Illinois Commerce Commission.

June 20, 1999

KATHY POSNER, Public Relations Executive - KRP01@aol.com
Public Relations Executive with her own public relations firm, COMM2, She is a consultant to Republican and Democratic candidates. Keynote speaker at Illinois Smokers Rights Convention & Women in Business Convention. Named one of the 100 Women Making a Difference in Illinois for 1998. A 3 time Emmy Award nominee and co-host of "U Go Girl" on WCIU-TV. A native of Westchester, New York and a member of Mensa.

MARTY GERAGHTY, Real Estate Executive - mart@interaccess.com
Commercial Real Estate Executive active in the Republican Party. Former State legislative
aide and former alderman in Evanston, Illinois.

ART CYR, Carthidge College
A.W. Klausen Professor of Economy and Business at Carthidge College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Formerly an Executive with the World Trade Center in Chicago, he is the author of four books. His latest is entitled; "After the Cold War: American Foreign Policy in Europe & Asia." Art is a UCLA graduate with a PhD. from Harvard.

June 13, 1999

MICHAEL ISIKOFF, Newsweek Magazine
Isikoff joined the Washington Post in 1981, where he covered the Justice Department, presidential politics, and latin American drug operations. In 1994, he moved to Newsweek, where he covered the Oklahoma City bombing, the 1996 election campaign, and other national issues. His exclusive reporting on the Lewinsky scandal gained him nationwide attention, including profiles in the New York Times and the Washington Post. Isikoff lives with his wife and daughter in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

TOM ROESER, Conservative
Original panel member of Beyond the Beltway, President of his own of consulting firm. Columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, talk show host for flagship station WLS/890-AM and former lobbyist for Quaker Oats Company. Tom is also a former Kennedy fellow at Harvard University.

PETER GIANGRECO, Democratic Strategist
A native of Buffalo, New York, Peter is a Democratic political consultant and President of "The Strategy Group." He is married and a father of two.

June 6, 1999

GHADA TALHAMI, Lake Forest College
Professor of Political Science at Lake Forest College in Illinois. Born in Jerusalem and an expert source of foreign political matters as they pertain to America.

May 30, 1999

MAX GRANT, Former Navy SEAL - grant@unext.com
Max Grant is partner with Competition Law Group, a Chicago-based law firm, and vice president & general counsel of UNEXT.com, an internet education company. He served four years as a Navy SEAL Team leader and was an aide to Senator John McCain of Arizona. He holds degrees from the US Naval Academy, Georgetown University and the University of Chicago.

RICHARD C. LONGWORTH, Chicago Tribune - longworth@tribune.com
Senior Writer for the Chicago Tribune, specializing in international and economic reporting. He assumed this job in late 1991 after three years as the paper's Chief European Correspondent, based in London. While there, he covered the revolutions in Eastern Europe, the collapse of communism in the former Soviet Union and the moves toward unity of the European community. Longworth is a native of Iowa and a Northwestern University graduate, and was a Neiman Fellow at Harvard.

SAM SARKESIAN, Loyola University
Dr. Sam C. Sarkesian received the BA from The Citadel and MA and PhD from Columbia University in the city of New York. He is Professor Emeritus, Loyola University Chicago. He served as Chairman of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society and Chairman of the Department of Political Science, Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Sarkesian is a member of the National Strategy Forum and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London). He served for over 20 years in the U.S. Army with service in Germany, Korea, and Vietnam, including duty with Special Forces, Airborne, and Infantry units. He has published a number of books and articles on national security, conflicts, and military professionalism. He taught at the United States Military Academy, West Point, from 1962-1964.

May 23, 1999

ROBERT ALLEGRINI, Public Relations Director - robert_allegrini@hilton.com
Dual American and Italian citizen who received a graduate fellowship in International Relations from the University of Florence in Florence, Italy. Recipient of the Italo American National Union's David Award for outstanding civic achievement. BA in Journalism, Dean's Award in Political Science from Northern Illinois University.

MARTY GERAGHTY, Real Estate Executive - mart@interaccess.com
Commercial Real Estate Executive active in the Republican Party. Former State legislative
aide and former alderman in Evanston, Illinois.

DEBBIE HOWLETT, USA Today Bureau Chief - Chicago
Bureau Chief of USA Today in Chicago. Graduate of the University of Oregon.

May 16, 1999

MICHAEL TOMASKY, New York magazine
Tomasky is the political columnist for New York magazine, where he writes about local and national affairs. His work has appeared in many other publications, including Harper's, The New York Times Book Review, GQ, and The Nation, among others. He is the author of Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America (Free Press, 1996).

NICHOLAS VARCHAVER, Sr. Editor Brill's Content
Senior Editor of Brill's Content and former writer. Journalism degree from Columbia University in New York. Former staff writer for Smart Money magazine and senior reporter for The American Lawyer. Has also taught at Columbia University. Recent articles have covered such topics as media libel against Delaware's News Journal, "Lynching a Dead Man" a TIME magazine article destroying the reputation of a deceased doctor and a look at CNN's Kosovo coverage and how their world audience reach has improved.

ROBERT GILES, Sr. Vice President Freedom Forum
Giles is a senior vice president of The Freedom Forum and executive director of the Media Studies Center in New York City. The Pulitzer Prize winning editor is author of Newsroom Management: A Guide to Theory and Practice. He was editor and publisher of The Detroit News. Giles won the Scripps-Howard Foundation Distinguished Journalism Citation in 1978 for "outstanding public service in the cause of the First Amendment" for columns focusing on the issue of open courts. He is a 1955 graduate of DePauw University, majoring in English. He received his master's degree in 1956 from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1966. He received the honorary Doctorate in Journalism from DePauw in 1996.

May 9, 1999

DEBBIE HOWLETT, USA Today Bureau Chief - Chicago
Bureau Chief of USA Today in Chicago. Graduate of the University of Oregon.

RICK GARCIA, Human Rights Activist
Illinois Human Rights Activist.

May 2, 1999

CHIP WILKINS, Democrat
Computer software marketing executive. Active in POW/MIA issues as well as increasing awareness of Persian Gulf War Syndrome. A native New Yorker.

JIM WALL, Democratic Strategist
Editor of The Christian Century. He is a former sportswriter from Monroe, Georgia. Democratic activist and close friend of Jimmy Carter and Al Gore.

DAN POLSBY, Northwestern Law Professor - ddpolsby@nwu.edu
Frequent contributor to "The Atlantic," and "The National Review." A native of Norwich, CT., Dan is the "Official Counsel of Beyond the Beltway."

ON THE PHONE : DANNY COULSEN, FBI Agent. Author of No Heroes
A retired FBI agent who founded the bureaus Hostage Rescue Team, has little patience for soft courts and slimy lawyers. ``My territory,'' he writes, ``was full of decent, hard-working folks whose rights were being denied, not by an oppressive government, as the Founding Fathers anticipated, but by criminals like that scum-sucking crack dealer we'd just busted.'' The territory, it develops in his narrative, was also full of right-wing militia crazies and Middle Eastern bombers, who kept Coulson hopping mad throughout his career. Coulson reserves a special disdain for paramilitary groups like the Montana Freemen, the Order, and the CSA (or Convenant, Sword and Arm of the Lord), groups responsible for hate crimes across the country. A good-guy player in some of the most newsworthy crimes of the last few decades, Coulson takes us inside events like the shootouts at Ruby Ridge and Waco, the ``Dog Day Afternoon'' bank robbery, and the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings.

April 25, 1999

NANCY MOLITOR, PhD, Clinical Psychologist
Licensed clinical psychologist in practice at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare's Department of Psychiatry in Evanston, Illinois and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Medical School. She is part of a national task force developed by the American Psychological Association in partnership with MTV to help young people identify the warning signs of violent behavior in themselves and peers. Dr. Molitor recived her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago and has written and lectured frequently on youth violence.

ERIKA S. SCHMIDT, Adolescent Psychotherapist - esschmid@midway.uchicago.edu
Schmidt is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Psychotherapist. She has a private practice primarily dealing with psychotherapy of children and adolescents. Schmidt is also a Clinical Social Worker with the Student Counseling and Resource Service, and a member of the University of Chicago Faculty at the Institute for Clinical Social Work. In addition to her practice, she is the Associate Editor of the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal.

MARTY GERAGHTY, Real Estate Executive - mart@interaccess.com
Commercial Real Estate Executive active in the Republican Party. Former State legislative
aide and former alderman in Evanston, Illinois.

April 18, 1999

ERIC ZORN, Chicago Tribune - ericzorn@aol.com
Chicago Tribune Metro columnist and avid marathon runner. Frequent Guest on Beyond the
Beltway.

DAN MILLER, Heartland Institute
Senior V.P. of the Heartland Institute. Former Director of the Illinois Commerce Commission.

April 11, 1999

LAUREL BELLOWS, Attorney
Partner in Bellows and Bellows, representing diverse field of business clients particularly on behalf of women. As the second woman president of the Chicago Bar Association she founded the CBA’s Alliance for Women, bringing women’s issues to the attention of the general bar. One of Chicago’s 100 Women of Influence according to Crain’s Chicago Business, Bellows is a Chicago native, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from Loyola University School of Law.

April 4, 1999

ED SARPOLUS, Democratic Pollster
Hailing from Saginaw, Michigan, Sarpolus is vice president of EPIC/MRA, a business and public market survey and consulting researdh firm, specializing in issue and image management. Sarpolus was the Information Systems manager for the central staff of the Michigan House of Representatives and served as a member of national and state task forces on redistricting. Ed has appeared on CNN, and in the pages of the New York Times, Business Week and the National Journal numerous times. He is a graduate of Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

MARTY GERAGHTY, Real Estate Executive - mart@interaccess.com
Commercial Real Estate Executive active in the Republican Party. Former State legislative
aide and former alderman in Evanston, Illinois.

March 28, 1999

DAVID SCHIPPERS, Chief Investigtive Counsel, Committee on the Judiciary
Senior partner in the law firm of Schippers & Bailey. His firm specializes in trust law, labor law, trials and appeals in the State and federal courts of Illinois and throughout the country. Schippers has made the most news of late as the Chief Investigative Counsel, Committee on the Judiciary for the United States House of Representatives. Schippers has an Assistant United States Attorney, Chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section for the U.S. Department of Justice, and has been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Loyola University, Chicago, and has his J.D. Degree from Loyola Law School, Chicago.

RICHARD PHELAN, Democrat - rphelan@foleylaw.com
Former Independent Prosecutor in the Jim Wright ethics case that led to the resignation of the former House Speaker of Texas. Former President of the Cook County (Illinois) Board. An attorney in private practice.

March 21, 1999

JOHN ALLEN WILLIAMS, Loyola Political Science Professor
Political science professor from Loyola University in Chicago and Executive Director of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society….an expert in military strategy and preparedness.

AMITY SHLAES, Wall Street Journal
Author of the book, "The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Honest Americans Crazy and What to Do About It." Miss Shlaes serves on the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal and is the authority on tax policy. On the foreign front, Amity Shlaes is one of the country's leading experts on the German economy. She is a graduate of Yale University. She lives in New York City with her husband and their three children. "The Greedy Hand" is available through the Beyond the Beltway Book Club.

March 14, 1999

MARTY GERAGHTY, Real Estate Executive - mart@interaccess.com
Commercial Real Estate Executive active in the Republican Party. Former State legislative
aide and former alderman in Evanston, Illinois.

March 7, 1999

MARK FUHRMAN, Former LAPD Detective
Former LAPD detective and current author and talk show host on KXLY/Spokane, WA, Fuhrman became a household name during the infamous O.J. Simpson Trial of 1994 -1995. Fuhrman has written two books on the subject of mysterious murders and crime-solving, including the best-selling Murder in Brentwood, and the just-released, Murder in Greenwich. Both are available in the Beyond the Beltway Book Club.

BILL GELLER, Police Consultant
Nationally known consultant to police departments, community groups, the U.S. Justice Department and local governments on humane and effective policing. His most recent book, commissioned and funded by the U.S. Justice Department to help map reform strategy after the Rodney King beating, is Police Violence: Understanding and Controlling Police Abuse of Force, published by Yale University Press. The book is available in the Beyond the Beltway Book Club.

February 28, 1999

NANCY SKINNER, WLS/890-AM
WLS/890-AM co-host of "Ski & Skinner," the weekend talk show from 12-3 PM Saturdays and Sundays. A Graduate of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in finance, she has worked in the corporate world of finance, as an environmental consultant, and continues to help businesses and communities incorporate advanced technology and design principles. She considers herself a progressive Democrat.

CHERYL LAVIN, Chicago Tribune
Syndicated columnist at the Chicago Tribune since 1981. Wrote a series of interviews with Hillary Rodham Clinton at the beginning of the president's second term.

DENNIS BYRNE, Chicago Sun-Times
President of his own public relations and public affairs company, Byrne was a regular columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times for 20 years, and now appears as an Op-ed columnist twice weekly. Dennis was also a former Public Relations Director for the Specialty Chemicals Group, editor and reporter for the Chicago Daily News, and a U.S. Naval officer. Byrne is a graduate of Marquette University, and holds an M.S. in Urban Affairs from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

February 21, 1999

ERIC ADELSTEIN, Democrat
Founding attorney of Adelstein & Associates, Eric has built his roots in political consulting and campaign management. He spent eleven years managing Democratic campaigns and in 1992 he served as the Clinton/Gore State Director in Illinois. Adelstein received his J.D. from the University of Chicago School of Law and graduated with honors in political science from Williams College in Williamstown, MA.

PAUL LIS, Political Consultant
Political consultant to numerous Republicans and Democrats, Paul is a native Chicagoan and graduate of Loyola University. Worked with Bob Dole on both Presidential campaigns in 1992 and 1996, as well as Senator Richard Lugar's successful campaign in Indiana.

February 14, 1999

DEBBIE HOWLETT, USA Today Bureau Chief - Chicago
Bureau Chief of USA Today in Chicago. Graduate of the University of Oregon.

February 12, 1999

DAVID AXELROD, Democratic Strategist
Media consultant and president of his own firm, Axelrod managed Paul Simon's upset Senatorial victory in 1984, and has produced media startegy for over 100 campaigns. Formerly a senior consultant to the Democratic National Committee and senior message advisor to the 1992 Clinton Inaugural Committee as well as 8 year veteran reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Axelrod is also a visiting professor at Northwestern University and has lectured on political media at Harvard.

February 11, 1999

ERIC ZORN, Chicago Tribune - ericzorn@aol.com
Chicago Tribune Metro columnist and avid marathon runner. Frequent Guest on Beyond the
Beltway.

DAN MILLER, Heartland Institute
Senior V.P. of the Heartland Institute. Former Director of the Illinois Commerce Commission.

February 10, 1999

CHIP WILKINS, Democrat
Computer software marketing executive. Active in POW/MIA issues as well as increasing awareness of Persian Gulf War Syndrome. A native New Yorker.

February 9, 1999

PETER GIANGRECO, Democrat
A native of Buffalo, New York, Peter is a Democratic political consultant and President of "The Strategy Group." He is married and a father of two.

February 8, 1999

February 7, 1999

February 5, 1999

JIM LEAHY, Conservative Republican
Currently Executive Director of the Republican Assembly of Illinois and Labor Coordinator for Sen. Peter Fitzgerald. Former Union employee and member of Riggers Local 136.

SUGAR RAUTBORD, Liberal Republican
Best-selling novelist and author of the new novel, The Chameleon, available in the Beyond the Beltway Book Club. Well-known national Republican fundraiser and National Ambassador for the Alzheimer's Association. Sugar is also the co-chair of the Republican Eagles and wrote a recent article for the Chicago Sun-Times about her actual dinner and conversations with Monica Lewinsky.

February 4, 1999

ERIC ZORN, Chicago Tribune - ericzorn@aol.com
Chicago Tribune Metro columnist and avid marathon runner. Frequent Guest on Beyond the
Beltway.

MARTY GERAGHTY, Real Estate Executive - mart@interaccess.com
Commercial Real Estate Executive active in the Republican Party. Former State legislative
aide and former alderman in Evanston, Illinois.

February 3, 1999

KITTY KURTH, Democrat
President of Kurth/Lampe Chicago Public Relations Firm. Longtime Democratic activist and consultant. Worked for Paul Tsongas and Michael Dukakis among others. She recently attended the World Economic Forum with Al Gore in Davos, Switzerland. Born and raised in DuPage County.

February 2, 1999

ED MURNANE, Republican
A former republican operative, Ed Murnane is President of the Illinois Civil Justice League. He formerly worked on the Reagan/Bush campaigns of the 1980’s, and served as an assistant to President George Bush. Ed was also a former political reporter and congressional press secretary.

February 1, 1999

DON ROSE, Independent Political Consultant
Don Rose is an independent political consultant heading Don Rose Communications and The Urban Political Group. The firms offer campaign consulting and management services to candidates of both parties as well as independents. Clientele has included Chicago Mayors Harold Washington and Jane Byrne, Illinois Senator Paul Simon, Supreme Court Justice Seymour Simon and Governor Jim Edgar. He has been an on-air commentator for WLS-TV (ABC), and hosted a weekly community-affairs talk show for 22 years on WPNT-FM During the 1960s he served as press secretary to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during his Chicago campaign. He was later an organizer of the short-lived Citizens Party and was political director in l992 of the National Committee to Draft Mario Cuomo for President. Rose also publishes a weekly dining-out column in the Sun-Times for 16 years. He is divorced, the father of two adult children and resides in Chicago's Lincoln Park.

January 26, 1999

DENNIS BYRNE, Chicago Sun-Times Columnist
President of his own public relations and public affairs company, Byrne was a regular columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times for 20 years, and now appears as an Op-ed columnist twice weekly. Dennis was also a former Public Relations Director for the Specialty Chemicals Group, editor and reporter for the Chicago Daily News, and a U.S. Naval officer. Byrne is a graduate of Marquette University, and holds an M.S. in Urban Affairs from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

January 25, 1999

GREG HINZ, Associate Editor Crain's Chicago Business

January 24, 1999

January 22, 1999

LESLIE MARSHALL, WLS Talk Show Host
Leslie Marshall was the youngest nationally syndicated radio talk host in the country. In 1992, Leslie was nationally syndicated by Daynet out of ABC studios in New York City. In 1994, Daynet sold to major networks and Leslie moved to Chicago. "The Leslie Marshall Show" was carried on 125 radio stations nationwide and ran for over two years. Leslie Holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Speech Communications from Northeastern University in Boston, and a Master's in Broadcast Journalism from Emerson College also in Boston. In September 1997, Leslie joined Newstalk WLS where she can be heard co-hosting with Deborah Crable weeknights 7-lOpm.

DAN MILLER, Heartland Institute
Senior V.P. of the Heartland Institute. Former Director of the Illinois Commerce Commission.

January 21, 1999

JIM WALL, Democratic Strategist
Editor of The Christian Century. He is a former sportswriter from Monroe, Georgia. Democratic activist and close friend of Jimmy Carter and Al Gore.

January 20, 1999

MELLODY HOBSON, Financial Consultant
Senior Vice President and Director of Marketing at Ariel Mutual Funds, Inc. A Princeton graduate who occasionally appears on CNN/fn.

January 19, 1999

ERIC ZORN, Chicago Tribune - ericzorn@aol.com
Chicago Tribune Metro columnist and avid marathon runner. Frequent Guest on Beyond the
Beltway.

MARTY GERAGHTY, Real Estate Executive - mart@interaccess.com
Commercial Real Estate Executive active in the Republican Party. Former State legislative
aide and former alderman in Evanston, Illinois.

January 18, 1999

CHRIS DUDLEY, Republican Strategist
A native of South Bend, Indiana and Executive Director of the Illinois Republican Party. She is also a veteran republican campaign operative.

PETER GIANGRECO, Democratic Strategist
A native of Buffalo, New York, Peter is a Democratic political consultant and President of "The Strategy Group." He is married and a father of two.

January 17, 1999

CORETTA McFERREN, Executive Director of WESTCORP
Executive Director of WESTCORP, a community based self help group working with lower income families. She is also a long term activist for school reform in Chicago. Wife and mother of 7, with 7 grandchildren.

RUSS MANGIALARDI, Self-employed tool salesman
Favoring impeachment, raised on the Northwest side of Chicago, Russ is a graduate of Illinois State University.

CHERYL LAVIN, Chicago Tribune Columnist
Syndicated columnist at the Chicago Tribune since 1981. Wrote a series of interviews with Hillary Rodham Clinton at the beginning of the president's second term.

January 15, 1999

January 14, 1999

JOHN KASS, Chicago Tribune - jkass@tribune.com
The well-known Chicago Tribune columnist who appears each weekday on the ever-popular "page three." Kass writes frequently on both Chicago and national issues, and is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago.

GARY LaPAILLE, Former Chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois
Currently President of Capitol Management Group, Inc, LaPaille was the first Democratic State Chairman to serve 2 terms (1990 - 1998). As Host State Chairman for the 1996 DNC in Chicago, LaPaille was involved in all aspects of the planning and execution of a successful convention in the re-nomination of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, Jr. Gary still serves as an at-large member of the Democratic National Committee, and serves on two committees, including The Executive Committee of the DNC.

January 13, 1999

January 12, 1999

DEBORAH CRABLE, WLS Evening Talk Show Host
Evening talk show host on WLS-AM, The University of Maryland speech communications graduate who also studied at the University of London, is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Theological Studies through the African American Leadership Partnership Program and the McCormick Theological Seminary. Ms. Crable is president of DJC enterprises, Inc., a production company that develops television, theater and film projects offering sensitive, insightful and inspiring images of Africans of the diaspora. A long time performing arts enthusiast, Ms. Crable worked with the J.F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D. C. recruiting minority talent and patronage.

January 11, 1999

PAUL CAPRIO, Conservative
Political Strategist and President of his own consulting and fund raising firm, specializing in conservative clients, including Family Pac, a leading pro-family political action committee in Illinois and a native of Orange, New Jersey. Once upon a time, Paul was a classmate of President Bill Clinton while attending Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

DEBBIE HOWLETT, USA Today Bureau Chief - Chicago
Bureau Chief of USA Today in Chicago. Graduate of the University of Oregon.

January 10, 1999

DAN MILLER, Heartland Institute
Senior V.P. of the Heartland Institute. Former Director of the Illinois Commerce Commission.

January 3, 1999

ERIC ZORN, Chicago Tribune - ericzorn@aol.com
Chicago Tribune Metro columnist and avid marathon runner. Frequent Guest on Beyond the
Beltway.

MARTY GERAGHTY, Real Estate Executive - mart@interaccess.com
Commercial Real Estate Executive active in the Republican Party. Former State legislative
aide and former alderman in Evanston, Illinois.

TOM McNAMEE, North Shore Magazine
Executive Editor of North Shore Magazine in Chicago and former reporter for the Chicago
Sun-Times.

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