Articles filed under Politics
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: Trump gets played in Mar-A-Lago dinnerNov 30, 2022 12:00 am - What is sure to be one of the weirder moments of the 2024 presidential campaign has just taken place before the campaign is even fully under way. Here is the short vers...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: The two parties are not the sameNov 30, 2022 12:00 am - Sixty is the magic number to beat a filibuster in the United States Senate. Sixty votes means a bill is on its way to becoming law, at least as far as the Senate is conc...
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Students, parents object to speaker at Prospect HighNov 29, 2022 12:00 am - Prospect High School billed motivational speaker and activist Calvin Terrell's appearance at an all-school assembly Tuesday as an event spreading a message of empathy, k...
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Tim Degnan, former state senator and Daley adviser, dies at 82Nov 28, 2022 12:00 am - Tim Degnan, a former state senator and longtime top adviser to former Mayor Richard M. Daley, died last week at his home in Oak Brook. He was 82. In a 1995 Sun-Times pro...
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Indicted Chicago Alderman Edward Burke won't run againNov 28, 2022 12:00 am - An extraordinary era in Chicago politics ended quietly on Monday - and not in the way the city council dean once predicted. Indicted Alderman Edward Burke chose not to s...
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Lightfoot files paperwork to run for reelectionNov 28, 2022 12:00 am - After turning in her nominating petitions Monday morning - a stack of signatures nearly half as tall as she is - Mayor Lori Lightfoot flexed a bit as she explained her d...
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Democrats kept the Senate this year, but 2024 may be harderNov 28, 2022 12:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Democrats celebrating a successful effort to keep control of the U.S. Senate this year will soon confront a 2024 campaign that could prove more challengi...
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Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: Giving thanks for 'low-skilled' workersNov 27, 2022 12:00 am - On Thanksgiving we rightly give thanks. And let's be clear that, amid all the turmoil that consumes daily headlines, we Americans do indeed have a lot to be thankful for...
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: In quest to get Trump, secrecy strikes againNov 25, 2022 12:00 am - Think back five years to the frenzy of news reporting and commentary over what was called Trump-Russia "collusion" - the allegation that the 2016 Trump campaign conspire...
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Guest Columnist Arthur I. Cyr: Thanksgiving and Lincoln's legacyNov 25, 2022 12:00 am - Thanksgiving means actual, not contrived, inclusiveness. President Abraham Lincoln profoundly demonstrates this fundamental point. On Oct. 3, 1863, the White House issue...