Articles filed under Politics
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Behind the Curtain: The effort we make to edit wire biasDec 06, 2021 12:00 am - The Daily Herald relies on wire services for most of our state, national and international news. We notice biases, implicit or subtle, in all the sources at one time or...
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Family, and country, dividedDec 05, 2021 12:00 am - My brother is older than me and when I was in high school, he worked second shift. I'd stay up waiting for him to get home and we'd work on jigsaw puzzles on the floor o...
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Thinking through the trade-offs of federally mandated paid leaveDec 05, 2021 12:00 am - The nonsensical coverage of the debate over paid leave continues. Apparently, opposing a federal paid-leave program is the equivalent of being anti-family or pro-sufferi...
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With Kinzinger out, candidates bow out of 16th District race, plan to run elsewhereDec 04, 2021 12:00 am - For months, the race for the 16th Congressional District seat was shaping up to be one of Illinois' most contested, and one of the country's most-watched U.S. House batt...
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CNN fires Cuomo for helping brother, the ex-NY governor who faced sex harassment allegationsDec 04, 2021 12:00 am - NEW YORK - CNN fired anchor Chris Cuomo on Saturday after details emerged about how he assisted his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as the politician faced s...
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Crime reform is here. Do you feel safer?Dec 03, 2021 12:00 am - If a conservative is a liberal who got mugged, California is about to have a bumper crop of right-wingers as the social compact is crumbling in the Golden State and beyo...
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The Biden-Buttigieg pitch: It's all free!Dec 03, 2021 12:00 am - The 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign was essentially a bidding war in which each candidate pledged to spend trillions of dollars beyond what is needed to ru...
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Fund local journalism to help communitiesDec 02, 2021 12:00 am - A portion of the Local Journalism Sustainability Act (LJSA) was included in the recent Build Back Better bill that was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives. The L...
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Transition: From just me to #MeToo to not you - Part IIDec 02, 2021 12:00 am - In the last 40 years, I have counseled, represented, supported and cried with thousands of women, many of them students in those criminal law classes, many of them telli...
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Leaving politics behind for a life of pieDec 01, 2021 12:00 am - Donald Trump has not been reinstated as president; dark forces continue to conceal Hillary's emails; it seems all those school shootings really happened; and no dead mem...