Articles filed under Politics
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Senate Republicans call for 'common-sense' ethics reformsJan 27, 2022 12:00 am - Capitol News Illinois gkinnicutt@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD - Demanding what they call "common-sense ethics reform," Senate Republicans plan to take action in a...
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Illinois Supreme Court weighing use of campaign funds for defense billsJan 26, 2022 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether public officials who are under investigation or charged with crimes may use their campaign fund...
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Justice Breyer to retire, giving Biden first court pickJan 26, 2022 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, giving President Joe Biden an opening he has pledged to fill by naming the first Black woman to th...
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Abolish parenthood? No, family trumps 'equity'Jan 26, 2022 12:00 am - "California should abolish parenthood, in the name of equity." That's the headline of a Ventura County Star column by Zocalo Public Square's Joe Mathews. "Want true equi...
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Kremlin aggression recalls Cold War - and challenges NATOJan 26, 2022 12:00 am - The threat of Russian military invasion of the remainder of Ukraine represents the most serious military crisis and challenge in Europe since the Balkan wars of the 1990...
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Odd duck sings Senate swan songJan 25, 2022 12:00 am - Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was speaking on the Senate floor, so I rushed into the chamber, gobsmacked. The Arizona Democrat's voice was nothing special - pedestrian - but new t...
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Youngkin rips off the school mask mandateJan 25, 2022 12:00 am - Newly minted Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed nine executive orders and two directives that, among other things, ended a mandate that state employees be vaccinated an...
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A Trump-Clinton rematch? Please noJan 23, 2022 12:00 am - Say it ain't so. Trump-Clinton round two, I mean. Donald Trump is easy. He might be the only Republican who almost any Democrat could beat. Of course, he will have a har...
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Ex-Im is wasteful enough abroad - we don't need it at homeJan 23, 2022 12:00 am - For years now, the U.S. Export-Import Bank - an under-the-radar agency that provides subsidized loans to foreign firms willing to buy American products - has tried to re...
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Editorial: Create task force to fight rise in carjackingsJan 22, 2022 10:00 pm - It was only a few days before Christmas when Kimberly Lightford and her husband Eric McKennie were confronted by three masked carjackers in suburban Broadview. "I am tha...