Articles filed under Politics
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New White House press secretary yanked reporters' access in Arizona after critical coverageJun 26, 2019 1:00 am - On April 5, 2016, Hank Stephenson checked his email and saw that he had a new message from Stephanie Grisham. "Attached please find the form that you requested for the c...
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Obama's car at auction with note from Elmhurst chief insideJun 25, 2019 1:00 am - The first car President Barack Obama bought new is being auctioned Wednesday, and the first listed "personally-owned artifact" that comes with the car is a note from a f...
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Reparations won't bring justice for slaveryJun 25, 2019 1:00 am - See the text of Williams' column from today's Daily Herald here: ...
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The Biden-Booker dust-up an exercise in ugly opportunismJun 25, 2019 1:00 am - The problem with a lifetime in public service is a lifetime in public service. Enter Joe Biden, whose list of former offices and distinctions exceeds my word limit, and ...
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Pritzker signs law legalizing recreational marijuana in IllinoisJun 25, 2019 1:00 am - Recreational marijuana use and possession will be legal in Illinois beginning Jan. 1 after Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday signed a bill that includes a process...
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Doubled state gas tax just a start. State law will cost you in other ways, tooJun 24, 2019 5:00 am - Location is everything when it comes to who pays the most in gasoline taxes to fix the state's highways and transit system. Lawmakers in early June agreed to double the ...
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Congress should act to save horses from slaughterhouseJun 24, 2019 1:00 am - America was built on the backs of horses, and earlier this year, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, an Evanston Democrat, introduced the Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Ac...
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Taxpayer advocate calls for IRS 'anxiety index' to help frustrated AmericansJun 23, 2019 6:00 am - It's official: Paying taxes can make you a stressed-out wreck. So says the national taxpayer advocate, who is calling for the Internal Revenue Service to create a "Taxpa...
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'You're welcome here': Lawyer, legislator offer tips amid fears of immigration sweepJun 23, 2019 1:00 am - Although President Donald Trump postponed a nationwide immigration sweep of people living illegally in the United States, a state legislator organized an information ses...
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Cultivating an environment to which hope can returnJun 23, 2019 1:00 am - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a report that is the closest thing we have to the quantification of despair. Between 1999 and 2017,...