Articles filed under Politics
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Are Democrats smart enough to take yes for an answer?Jun 09, 2020 1:00 am - By Mark Shields Here's the fail-safe test for whether a political party is growing and strengthening or shrinking in size and prospects: Is that party spending its time,...
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Plan to shrink Lake County government headed to voters this fallJun 09, 2020 1:00 am - Lake County residents will have the rare opportunity to reduce the size of local government when they vote this fall. The county board on Tuesday agreed to ask voters if...
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The world is watching America's response with eye on justiceJun 07, 2020 1:00 am - At my first overseas posting in 1986, our Embassy press assistant brought to my attention a story in a small local paper that claimed that the AIDS virus had been invent...
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The race card, 2020 version: how Trump has used the pandemic to play his Willie Horton cardJun 07, 2020 1:00 am - By Susan Estrich Donald Trump has been trying for years to play his Willie Horton card, to divide the country along lines of race as a means of reaffirming his base. You...
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Should Lake County eliminate the recorder's office? Voters could decideJun 05, 2020 1:00 am - Editor's note: Cook County voters approved a merger of the two offices in 2016. Years after the idea first was proposed, a plan to eliminate the office of the Lake ...
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Completing the 2020 census is vital for our schoolsJun 05, 2020 1:00 am - The essential role that schools play in family and community life has never been clearer now that they are closed because of COVID-19. We are reminded daily, in many way...
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Violent rioting, as in the 1960s, hurts the most disadvantagedJun 05, 2020 1:00 am - "America is burning. But that's how forests grow." So spoke Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. "Riots are an integral part of the country's march towards progr...
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How long until we have a healing change of heart on raceJun 04, 2020 1:00 am - Lord, how long? George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with both his hands securely cuffed behind his back, is murdered by four police officers when one applied life-t...
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Raoul, 17 other attorneys general ask for power to investigate police misconductJun 04, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois' attorney general asked Congress in a letter Thursday to grant his office the power to investigate "practices of unconstitutional policing." After...
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Trump's above the Twitter lawJun 04, 2020 1:00 am - In January 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump bragged that his supporters were so loyal that he "could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I would...