Articles filed under Politics
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Batavia council reverses course, won't put own home-rule question on ballotAug 21, 2018 1:00 am - The Batavia City Council changed its mind from last week and decided Monday against putting an advisory referendum on the ballot. The question, in part, would have asked...
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Glen Ellyn District 89 seeking nearly $400 average property tax increaseAug 21, 2018 1:00 am - An earlier version of this report mistakenly referred to District 41. Glen Ellyn Elementary District 89 will ask voters in November to approve its first operating t...
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Trump inauguration rioting charges dismissed for daughter of Elgin councilmanAug 20, 2018 1:00 am - The daughter of an Elgin councilman said being arrested and facing rioting charges over protests during President Donald Trump's inauguration has changed her. "I didn't ...
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District 200 will ask voters to replace Jefferson school after allAug 20, 2018 1:00 am - For the third time in five years, Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 voters will decide the fate of a plan to replace the Jefferson Early Childhood Center, but this t...
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Women win primaries in record numbers, look to NovemberAug 19, 2018 1:00 am - ATLANTA (AP) - Women are not just running for office in record numbers this year - they are winning. More women than ever before have won major party primaries for gover...
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There's much at stake for the public in journalism's successAug 19, 2018 1:00 am - When I look at what seems to have become our national "conversation" on the press, it appears that every level of journalism has devolved into such an endless barrage of...
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Slouching toward autocracyAug 19, 2018 1:00 am - In their book, "How Democracies Die," political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt write: "How do elected authoritarians shatter the democratic institutions t...
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Harper College wants to keep tax increase in place to fund $180 million in upgradesAug 17, 2018 5:30 am - Harper College will ask voters on the November ballot to continue a tax increase that's otherwise due to expire, to help fund $180 million in campus upgrades over the ne...
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The Starr lesson for Mueller watchers: Don't hold your breath waiting for indictmentsAug 16, 2018 1:00 am - In Washington in the 1990s, it was a sure bet that whenever conservative journalists and activists got together, the conversation turned to the Clintons, Kenneth Starr a...
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Batavia group questions why city hasn't put home-rule referendum on ballot yetAug 16, 2018 1:00 am - Which of the two Batavia home-rule referendums will be listed first on the Nov. 6 ballot? Proponents of the binding one, which seeks to take away the city's home-rule po...