Articles filed under Democratic Party
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Palatine, Wheeling Twp. Democrats: Winning an uphill climbJun 06, 2012 2:39 pm - Leaders in both the Palatine and Wheeling Township Democrats organizations acknowledge that slating candidates this fall against three seemingly popular Republican incum...
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Editorial: Finish the unfinished pension problemJun 04, 2012 5:00 am - What’s done is done. And what was not done is not done. It must be done soon. We speak, of course, of the Illinois Legislature’s failure to fix the state’s suffocating ...
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Wheeling childhood shaped Vernon Hills mom’s public service careerMay 31, 2012 5:52 pm - While a student at Northern Illinois University in 1972, Kathy Schultz urged her friends to join her as she set off to meet the candidates for Illinois governor. “Why?” ...
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Editorial: Put the skids on massive gambling expansionMay 27, 2012 5:00 am - Illinois faces budget problems the likes of which we’ve never seen. We have the worst pension funding gap in the nation, a multibillion-dollar backlog of unpaid bills an...
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Editorial: Put the skids on massive gambling expansionMay 25, 2012 3:04 pm - Illinois faces budget problems the likes of which we’ve never seen. We have the worst pension funding gap in the nation, a multibillion-dollar backlog of unpaid bills an...
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Chicago Democrats choose candidate to take on SmithMay 23, 2012 5:53 pm - A lawyer and aide to former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has been chosen by Chicago Democrats as a third-party candidate to challenge indicted state Rep. Der...
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Editorial: Road to trust rough for Lake County law enforcementMay 21, 2012 5:00 am - It happened yet again. Last week, prosecutors in the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office dropped sexual assault charges against a man who has been in prison ...
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Sudden shift in pension responsibility is untenable planMay 05, 2012 11:00 pm - We were and are open to supporting the concept that individual school districts should bear some responsibility for the pension costs they create if they approve exorbit...
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Editorial: Our date with history demands we all get involvedApr 29, 2012 5:00 am - “This is our moment in history to get these issues resolved.” — Gov. Pat Quinn speaking of Medicaid and pension crises to the Daily Herald editorial board The governor i...
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Obama takes on college costs, eyes young votersApr 24, 2012 10:55 am - WASHINGTON — Wooing young voters, President Barack Obama is on a blitz to keep the cost of college loans from soaring for millions of students, taking his message to thr...