Charlotte Ehrlich

Nov 5, 2024 | dailynorthwestern.com | Lily Ogburn |Charlotte Ehrlich

U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston) was reelected to represent Illinois’ 9th Congressional District, leading her Republican challenger, Seth Alan Cohen, with over 50% of votes tallied. The Associated Press called the race for Schakowsky at 8:08 p.m.Schakowsky, who has held the district’s House seat since 1999, represents several North Shore suburbs, including Evanston. The district reaches from northern neighborhoods in Chicago to suburban towns such as Crystal Lake and Algonquin.

Oct 31, 2024 | opensecrets.org | Charlotte Ehrlich

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s rocket company aiming to make space travel accessible, spent $1.23 million on lobbying in the first nine months of 2024 — a year marked by the unveiling of an upgraded New Shepard suborbital vehicle and a historic flight for America’s for NASA’s early astronaut corps. Despite those milestones, Blue Origin’s lobbying spending for the first nine months of 2024 has dropped to its lowest level since 2019, marking a five-year low.

Oct 25, 2024 | opensecrets.org | Charlotte Ehrlich |Maia Cook

Elon Musk has become a household name, synonymous with social media, electric vehicles and space exploration. The South African-born entrepreneur…

Oct 10, 2024 | indepthnh.org | Charlotte Ehrlich

By Charlotte Ehrlich | OpenSecretsCrowdstrike, a cybersecurity firm thrust into the spotlight over a widespread outage in July that caused what is now considered the largest IT outage in history, is on track for a record year of federal lobbying spending.

Oct 9, 2024 | opensecrets.org | Charlotte Ehrlich

Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity firm thrust into the spotlight over a widespread outage in July that caused what is now considered the largest IT outage in history, is on track for a record year of federal lobbying spending. The embattled cybersecurity company spent more than $360,000 on federal lobbying in the first half of 2024, according to an OpenSecrets analysis of filings that cover the period through the end of June — more than the same period in any prior year.