Articles filed under Politics
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Tariffs and economic realitiesFeb 05, 2020 12:00 am - I have been teaching economics since 1967 - 40 years of it at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. During that interval, economic reality has not changed. Just ...
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State to release first $50 million of broadband expansion fundingFeb 05, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The state is accepting applications for the first $50 million in disbursements of a $420 million grant program aimed at increasing internet access across t...
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Elk Grove Village mayor schedules town hall amid term limits pushFeb 05, 2020 12:00 am - Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson and village trustees on Wednesday scheduled a town hall meeting to rebut allegations raised against them during the term limits ref...
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Committee presses for answers on automatic voter registration errorsFeb 05, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - A programming error in Illinois' automatic voter registration system that mistakenly enrolled more than 500 people was a "wakeup call," the state's top ele...
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Senate deals Pritzker first veto overrideFeb 05, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker was dealt his first veto override Wednesday when the state Senate voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill that retroactively exte...
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Impeachment and the endless war of personal smearsFeb 05, 2020 12:00 am - In the midst of the impeachment trial in the Senate, The New York Times had a big scoop. The paper learned that, according to a yet-to-be-published tell-all book by Pres...
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Watch the State of the Union liveFeb 04, 2020 4:30 am - President Donald Trump is delivering his State of the Union address on the eve of his likely impeachment acquittal and in the aftermath of the chaotic first votes of the...
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New round of tariffs promise same results as before - higher pricesFeb 04, 2020 12:00 am - The Tariff Man has done it again. President Donald Trump recently announced that he will expand import taxes on American consumers of auto parts, nails and other goods m...
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'Major flaws' reported as state shifts former foster children into Medicaid managed careFeb 04, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - An estimated 2,500 children and young adults in Illinois who had been in the custody of the state's foster care system within the last year abruptly lost t...
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House bucks governor to OK reinstatement of tax break on aircraft partsFeb 04, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois House overwhelmingly voted Tuesday to override the governor's veto of legislation restoring and retroactively applying a tax break for aircraf...