Articles filed under Politics
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U.S. in moral declineOct 23, 2019 1:00 am - See the text of Williams' column from today's Daily Herald here: ...
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Impeachment comes down to a question of consequencesOct 23, 2019 1:00 am - The impeachment of President Donald Trump has reached an early point of absurdity. Just about everyone in Washington believes that a quid pro quo - in which Trump used ...
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Debates over allowing legal cannabis stores show new law is workingOct 22, 2019 1:00 am - Is democracy a bad thing? As co-authors of the Illinois law legalizing cannabis use on Jan. 1, 2020, I along with Sen. Toi Hutchinson and Reps. Kelly Cassidy and Jehan G...
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Yet again, the truth outedOct 22, 2019 1:00 am - By Kathleen Parker Shakespeare long ago wrote that "truth will out," meaning that what's true - by virtue of its basis in fact and logic - eventually will conquer the li...
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Constable: 'Greatest witch hunt in American history' resulted in real executionsOct 22, 2019 1:00 am - It's difficult to avoid talk of a "witch hunt" these days. Donald Trump has tweeted or retweeted that phrase 290 times, according to TrumpTwitterArchive.com, casting him...
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Guest view: Only US can block in China, India oppressionOct 21, 2019 1:00 am - For observers of human rights violations, the news last week of US sanctions against China for its abuses of Uighur Muslims came as a surprise. Uighurs are a Muslim com...
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Barrington District 220 pushing voter registration ahead of March referendumOct 21, 2019 1:00 am - Building referendum will be on March ballot
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RegiStart program helping high school students sign up to voteOct 21, 2019 1:00 am - A Naperville North High School grad returned to his alma mater Monday with a way to help get more 18-year-olds registered to vote using technology, social networking and...
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Number of overdoses in Illinois drops for first time in five yearsOct 21, 2019 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois is "showing progress" toward the state Department of Public Health's three-year goal of reducing opioid deaths by one-third by 2020, an official t...
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What you do on the Internet is worth a lot. Exactly how much, nobody knows.Oct 20, 2019 6:18 am - The Internet may be composed of zeros and ones, but U.S. officials are struggling to quantify the value of digital activities and integrate those numbers into public pol...