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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - One set of elections ends in early November as another begins when presidential hopefuls cross the unofficial starting line in the 2016 race for the White House.
With control of the Senate at stake, the months leading up to the mi...
Updated: Sep 02, 2014 at 02:05 AM
Keurig Green Mountain Inc. surged to a record high after announcing a deal to bring Kraft Foods Group Inc. coffee brands such as Maxwell House, Yuban and McCafe to its home brewing system.
Northfield-based Kraft will offer its coffees in portion pac...
Updated: Aug 26, 2014 at 08:50 AM
The closely watched race for Illinois governor got a high-profile boost Monday with Vice President Joe Biden fundraising for Gov. Pat Quinn and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie stumping for the Chicago Democrat's challenger, Republican Bruce Rauner.
B...
Updated: Aug 25, 2014 at 07:54 PM
In a letter to Fence Post in December 2009, I wrote that I feared we had elected a president that lacked the experience to deal with both domestic and foreign polices.
I have voted in every election since Harry Truman and have voted for the candida...
Updated: Jul 31, 2014 at 02:05 AM
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie stopped in Chicago Friday to campaign for Republican Bruce Rauner, calling his bid to defeat Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn "among the most important governor's races in the country."
Christie and Rauner grabbed hot dogs an...
Updated: Jul 25, 2014 at 09:28 PM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Sen. Elizabeth Warren is quickly becoming a top Democratic fundraiser and campaign powerhouse, hitting the road on behalf of candidates in key races the party will need to win to retain control of the U.S. Senate in November.
Sinc...
Updated: Jul 13, 2014 at 06:36 PM
WASHINGTON - Their Senate majority in peril, anxious Democrats have seized the Supreme Court decision that some companies need not provide birth control to women as fresh evidence of the GOP's "war on women" - an argument they hope will energize fem...
Updated: Jul 02, 2014 at 09:37 AM
As Republican state Sen. Kirk Dillard of Hinsdale steps aside, he says he's doing more looking forward than back.
His appointment to lead the Regional Transportation Authority means he's stepping down from his seat in the Illinois Senate by the end ...
Updated: Jun 27, 2014 at 10:44 AM
Measures that would allow Illinois voters to decide on lawmaker term limits and a new political redistricting process can't appear on November's ballot, a judge ruled Friday, in a decision that could be a setback for Republican gubernatorial candida...
Updated: Jun 27, 2014 at 07:25 PM
WASHINGTON - Six-term Sen. Thad Cochran's Republican runoff against Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel stands as a test of whether decades of delivering federal largesse trumps conservative demands to slash government spending.
The 76-year-old Co...
Updated: Jun 24, 2014 at 03:35 PM