Articles filed under Politics
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'A strong start': Suburbanites voting by mail in record numbers for midterm electionsOct 31, 2022 5:30 am - With Election Day nearly a week away, people voting by mail are setting midterm records in several suburban counties. In Kane and McHenry counties, vote-by-mail totals h...
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With opposition emerging, 708 mental health board supporters press their caseOct 29, 2022 1:00 am - Voters in several suburban townships and one county will decide Nov. 8 whether to authorize a tax increase to fund new community boards empaneled to address local mental...
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Duckworth, Salvi find rare common ground - in Arlington Heights for Bears stadiumOct 28, 2022 1:00 am - Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth and Republican challenger Kathy Salvi couldn't be further apart on gun control, abortion rights, inflation, or just about any other ...
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Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: Will the 'experts' ever learn their lesson?Oct 28, 2022 1:00 am - Debate now rages about whether the Federal Reserve should continue to raise interest rates to tame inflation or slow down these hikes and see what happens. This is not t...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: What's worse: Big Government or Big Tech? BothOct 28, 2022 1:00 am - When the federal government gets together with social media giants to censor critics of the government, is that free speech or censorship? A case moving its way through ...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: Uncle Andy: Old Hickory and me in historyOct 27, 2022 1:00 am - By Jamie Stiehm So I gave a talk on President Andrew Jackson, counting the ways he harshly steered the country wrong, wrong and wrong again. The Trail of Tears. Closing...
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Guest Columnist Arthur I. Cyr: Leaders, lettuce and crisis in BritainOct 27, 2022 1:00 am - Rishi Sunak has been elected leader of the Conservative Party and become the next prime minister of the United Kingdom comprising England, Scotland, Wales and Northern I...
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'They should be banned': Foster calls for restrictions on military-style firearmsOct 26, 2022 5:30 am - Democratic U.S. Rep. Bill Foster of Naperville believes the private ownership and sale of military-style weapons like those used in several mass shootings, including thi...
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GOP eyes Indiana upset amid national push to diversify partyOct 26, 2022 1:00 am - GARY, Ind. (AP) - After a lunchtime roundtable with Indiana Sen. Todd Young and Utah Rep. Burgess Owens, Republican congressional candidate Jennifer-Ruth Green suggested...
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Voters will decide if village clerk is elected or appointed in Campton HillsOct 26, 2022 1:00 am - The village of Campton Hills has a binding referendum on the Nov. 8 ballot on whether the village clerk should be appointed or elected. Village Administrator Denise Burc...