Articles filed under Politics
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Lake Villa District 41 streamlines its loan pitch to votersJan 03, 2020 4:20 am - Voters in Lake Villa Elementary District 41 again will be asked for authorization to fund school projects, but the new pitch has been revised and greatly reduced. Instea...
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Killing ourselves with hateJan 03, 2020 12:00 am - The recent shooting inside a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey, is the latest example that we Americans are literally killing ourselves with hatred for our n...
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Putin's press conference in contextJan 03, 2020 12:00 am - President Vladimir Putin of Russia held his traditional year-end press conference on Dec. 19. The main news is there was none, save for coy hints he may change the const...
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Celebrating a Christmas ceasefireJan 02, 2020 12:00 am - What a great holiday season it is. Know why? Congress is on vacation, which means all the rest of us get a break from politics. We're in the middle of what amounts to a ...
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How presidents get their factsJan 02, 2020 12:00 am - Here's a basic truth about people who make decisions on public policy: they rarely have all the facts they want. Over the years, I've sat in countless meetings in which,...
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Blagojevich writes that today's Democrats would have impeached LincolnJan 02, 2020 12:00 am - Knowing his best chance at freedom still lies in the hands of President Donald Trump, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich has argued in a new column that Democrats in the U.S. H...
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Colleges dupe parents and taxpayers with diversity bureaucracyJan 01, 2020 12:00 am - Colleges have been around for centuries. College students have also been around for centuries. Yet, college administrators assume that today's students have needs that w...
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The Great Divide: Congress, voters on immigrationJan 01, 2020 12:00 am - A year-end Associated Press poll showed that the two top 2019 stories were the House of Representatives' vote to impeach President Trump and the president's immigration ...
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Old enough to vote, not old enough to smokeDec 31, 2019 12:00 am - I started smoking in high school and quit in my early 20s. I wish I never smoked, but I did. I thought it was cool until I knew it was stupid. That's when I quit. Laws t...
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie headlining Barrington Town-WarmingDec 31, 2019 12:00 am - Barrington's old-school Town-Warming in late January will feature former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie as the headliner. Christie will anchor the annual event at Barrin...