Articles filed under Politics
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For Blacks in Ohio, too much on top of more than one can bearApr 27, 2021 1:00 am - It's Wednesday morning. I sign into the eighth one-on-one student videoconference but immediately see that, on this call, with this cherished student, there's no oxygen ...
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General Assembly passes hundreds of bills as session's end approachesApr 26, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The state Senate and House passed more than 750 bills last week, addressing isolated timeouts in schools, youth vaping, teaching Muslim history, the commem...
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Census figures cost Illinois a congressional seatApr 26, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois will lose a seat in Congress because of stagnating population, continuing a long slide that has cost it political influence nationally, according ...
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Celebrate Fair Housing Month by passing a billApr 26, 2021 1:00 am - Throughout the last year, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the once-in-a-generation push for civil rights of 2020, one key principle has remained at the fore: equity. The t...
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If all the world's a stage, COVID-19 is writing the scriptApr 25, 2021 1:00 am - The 9/11 attacks gave us the heightened security theater now on display in all U.S. airports. Day after day for the last two decades, Transportation Security Administrat...
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The ebbing of 'the misperception that bigotry is everywhere'Apr 25, 2021 1:00 am - How will future historians explain this? From 2001 to 2014, majorities of Americans, including supermajorities of Blacks and non-Hispanic whites, told Gallup pollsters t...
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Lawmakers, Pritzker administration spar over projected revenueApr 23, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Members of an Illinois Senate committee sparred with officials from Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration Friday in a hearing on tax changes proposed by the ...
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GOP legislator calls out Democrats on House practicesApr 23, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Republican Rep. Tim Butler on Thursday accused the new Democratic leadership in the state House of preserving practices from previous leadership that Repub...
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Republican opposition to bathroom bill dubbed 'transphobic'Apr 23, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois House has passed a bill that would allow businesses to offer multi-occupancy restrooms inclusive to all genders, a measure that the bill's spo...
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Walter Mondale: Behind a great manApr 23, 2021 1:00 am - I spent the 1984 presidential campaign in the seat behind former Vice President Walter Mondale. From nomination to landslide defeat, I was there, right behind him, givin...