SPENCER, IA.--Morning reading and viewing
My Sun-Times colleague Abdon Pallasch has a piece about Obama's years in Chicago as a lawyer. LINK
Key finding: "A search of all the cases in Cook County Circuit Court in which Obama made an appearance since he graduated from Harvard in 1991 shows: Zero.
His practice was confined mainly to federal court in Chicago, where he made formal appearances in.... a total of 10 cases..
For a photo gallery of stills I shot while on this Obama road trip LINK
Lynn Sweet is a columnist and the Washington Bureau Chief for the 
I enjoyed the photos and the link to Pallasch's piece. Which somehow reminded me - remember the Obama-Coburn Transparency Act? There's a new website: http://www.USAspending.gov, a relaunch of http://www.FederalSpending.gov
Maybe you could remind people about it? That was my favorite piece of legislation he worked on.