Articles filed under Politics
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Ryan will seek speaker's role, but only if...Oct 20, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan told GOP lawmakers late Tuesday that he will run for speaker, but only if they embrace him by week's end as their consensus candida...
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State could give suburbs loans during budget impasseOct 20, 2015 1:00 am - As the state budget battle continues, Illinois is unable to send communities their shares of motor fuel taxes collected since July 1. But maybe those towns could get a l...
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Laura Murphy's first Senate day includes Rauner meetingOct 20, 2015 1:00 am - State Sen. Laura Murphy started at the Capitol Tuesday in the midst of a historically long budget stalemate, and her first day included a meeting with Gov. Bruce Rauner....
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Thompson says state in 'worst position ever'Oct 19, 2015 11:00 pm - For the second time in less than a week, a Republican predecessor of Gov. Bruce Rauner has blasted the condition of the state under the Winnetka private equity investor'...
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Ex-Gov. Edgar: Rauner shouldn't 'hold the budget hostage'Oct 19, 2015 1:00 am - Former Gov. Jim Edgar says Gov. Bruce Rauner shouldn't “hold the budget hostage” while calling for other state government reforms. Edgar was governor in the 1990s. The ...
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State owes suburbs millions in gambling taxesOct 19, 2015 1:00 am - Illinois gamblers lost more than $227 million to machines at bars, restaurants and gas stations in the first 90 days of the state budget impasse, but local governments h...
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Washington stands still despite drumbeat on high drug pricesOct 18, 2015 7:41 am - WASHINGTON - On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton is proposing to force pharmaceutical companies to spend more on research. In California, the push is on for a law to ...
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A former Cubs prospect, Jesse White learned from Ernie BanksOct 18, 2015 7:30 am - When Secretary of State Jesse White was a young Chicago Cubs prospect in the early 1960s, legendary slugger Ernie Banks would hold court at spring training dinners with ...
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Smithsonian chief: Don't call it "The Nation's Attic"Oct 18, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - With millions of artifacts ranging from first ladies' dresses to the flag that inspired the national anthem, the Smithsonian Institution has been cheekily k...
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Aid group questions U.S. version of hospital bombingOct 18, 2015 1:00 am - KUNDUZ, Afghanistan - The head of an international medical charity whose hospital in northern Afghanistan was destroyed in a U.S. airstrike says the "extensive, quite pr...