Articles filed under Politics
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Primaries likely in several congressional, suburban legislative racesNov 25, 2019 12:00 am - Primary election battles are shaping up in a number of congressional and state legislative races in the suburbs as candidates began submitting their candidate petitions ...
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Eight days after request, Lincoln museum shipped Gettysburg Address to TexasNov 25, 2019 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Just eight days after a nonprofit organization founded by conservative commentator Glenn Beck requested it be lent a priceless, handwritten copy of the Get...
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Spoilers or saviors? The challenge for Democratic middle groundNov 24, 2019 12:00 am - For eight years, Joe Biden sat at Barack Obama's right hand, loyally serving the administration, promoting its agenda and providing advice and counsel in the development...
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How do we keep our democracy healthy?Nov 24, 2019 12:00 am - Representative democracy is based on a simple premise. It's that ordinary citizens can make satisfactory judgments on complex public policy and political issues - or at ...
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Editorial: The false politics of good vs evilNov 23, 2019 1:00 pm - On Thursday, in homes and dining establishments across the country, families and friends will gather for Thanksgiving. And in a great number of those places, politics wi...
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How Facebook is gearing up to protect the U.S. Census from misinformationNov 23, 2019 5:00 am - The presidential election won't be the only big test of Facebook's efforts to fight misinformation in 2020: It's also a census year, and the social network is ramping up...
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Rollback of EPA oversight in Midwest favors pollutersNov 23, 2019 12:00 am - SAUGET, Ill. - Mamie Cosey and those living near this tiny, industrial village on the banks of the Mississippi River spent years wondering what poisons spewed from the t...
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Illinois lawmakers: Put pension reform on the 2020 ballotNov 22, 2019 12:00 am - Weeks after the Illinois General Assembly moved to put a progressive state income tax question on the November 2020 ballot, a Daily Herald investigation illustrated that...
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Amid regulation pressures for Big Tech, transparency the least-bad optionNov 22, 2019 12:00 am - A new Wall Street Journal expose finding that "Google has increasingly re-engineered and interfered with search results to a far greater degree than the company and its ...
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A district spent $2 million on artwork? The story of a story that wasn't a storyNov 21, 2019 12:00 am - Sometimes, journalism involves not reporting things that didn't happen. Here's an example: The caller, anonymous, was outraged. How, she wondered, could we not report t...