Articles filed under Politics
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Des Plaines voters will have another say on term limitsJan 04, 2023 4:30 am - Des Plaines residents will have the chance to strengthen term limits for elected officials when they vote this spring. After a lengthy and occasionally acrimonious discu...
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EXPLAINER: What to expect on Day 2 of House speaker electionJan 04, 2023 12:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - What was expected to be a day of triumph for House Republicans coming into the majority turned into chaos Tuesday as interparty fighting over who shoul...
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McCarthy failing anew in bid for speakerJan 04, 2023 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - House Republicans flailed through a second day of multiple balloting Wednesday, unable to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker or to come up with a ne...
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Daily Herald opinion: If only there were more like Jesse White in Illinois governmentJan 04, 2023 12:00 am - To refer to Jesse White as Illinois' longest-running secretary of state feels like a disservice to a man who has lived more lives and done more things than many of us co...
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Twitter says it will relax ban on political advertisingJan 04, 2023 12:00 am - Twitter says it will ease up on its 3-year-old ban on political advertising, the latest change by Elon Musk as he tries to pump up revenue after purchasing the social me...
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Overdose prevention sitesJan 04, 2023 12:00 am - They call them "overdose prevention sites." I'd never heard of them until I saw the picture in the LA Times of a drug user literally falling down in the middle of a city...
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Syndicated columnist Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: My hope for more healing in 2023Jan 04, 2023 12:00 am - I got an unexpected Facebook message from someone I had unfriended a couple of years back. We disagree on politics, and I just could not handle all the hateful rhetoric ...
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Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: COVID only accelerated the blue state exodusJan 03, 2023 12:00 am - Where are Americans moving? And where, to make things more specific, have Americans been moving since the sudden onset of COVID lockdowns? Answers to these questions com...
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McCarthy vows to stay in speaker's race, with Trump backingJan 03, 2023 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said late Tuesday there's no scenario in which he'll drop his bid to become House speaker despite failing to win multiple r...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Munroe Dion: On the way into the drugstore, I ejected the stump of a cigar from my mouth and put it out with the heel of my shoe.Jan 03, 2023 12:00 am - On the way into the drugstore, I ejected the stump of a cigar from my mouth and put it out with the heel of my shoe. These days, smoking in a store is as bad as smoking ...