Articles filed under Politics
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Iowa could make Democrats' Bernie problem much, much worseJan 30, 2020 12:00 am - Just days before the 2008 Democratic presidential caucuses in Iowa, Hillary Clinton led Barack Obama by four points in the RealClearPolitics average of polls. Obama took...
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Trump's Labor Department provides clarity on joint employmentJan 29, 2020 12:00 am - Three years into the Trump administration, we see a clear pattern forming. The Obama administration implemented labor rules that make the labor market less flexible, oft...
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Comptroller, treasurer talk about fiscal state of IllinoisJan 29, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois' top fiscal and investment officers touted some of the economic policy initiatives laid out by Gov. J.B. Pritzker in his State of the State speech...
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Automatic voter registration glitch needs attentionJan 29, 2020 12:00 am - A glitch in the state's automatic voter registration program that resulted in more than 500 people who said they weren't U.S. citizens being added to the voter rolls sho...
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Senate bill would outlaw using live animals as carnival prizesJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - It is a mainstay of fairs and carnivals around the country: Sink a Ping-Pong ball into a fish bowl and win the goldfish swimming inside. But if a bill in the Illinois Se...
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Maybe, eventually, history will get someone's attentionJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - There were two TVs on in the gym. The one in the front - where all the training goes on - showed two teams from somewhere else battling for a ball. The one in the back,...
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Fact checkers looking at only one sideJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - Google "fact-check Senate impeachment," and you can read about all the factual errors made by President Donald Trump's team of lawyers. What about those of the House imp...
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House Republicans tie ethics reforms to redistricting changes in IllinoisJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Remodeling how Illinois' political districts are drawn is the key to addressing the "dark cloud" of ethical violations hovering over state government, Hous...
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Lawmakers aim to end state-to-state corporate poachingJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Two Democratic lawmakers unveiled legislation Tuesday to form a multi-state compact in which each member state would vow not to use company-specific tax in...
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Harmon names new Senate leadership team, and Link's not on itJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - New state Senate President Don Harmon, an Oak Park Democrat, announced his leadership team Tuesday on the first day of the 2020 legislative session. Notice...