Articles filed under Politics
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Should Lake County eliminate the recorder's office? Voters could decideJun 05, 2020 1:00 am - Editor's note: Cook County voters approved a merger of the two offices in 2016. Years after the idea first was proposed, a plan to eliminate the office of the Lake ...
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Completing the 2020 census is vital for our schoolsJun 05, 2020 1:00 am - The essential role that schools play in family and community life has never been clearer now that they are closed because of COVID-19. We are reminded daily, in many way...
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Violent rioting, as in the 1960s, hurts the most disadvantagedJun 05, 2020 1:00 am - "America is burning. But that's how forests grow." So spoke Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey. "Riots are an integral part of the country's march towards progr...
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How long until we have a healing change of heart on raceJun 04, 2020 1:00 am - Lord, how long? George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with both his hands securely cuffed behind his back, is murdered by four police officers when one applied life-t...
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Raoul, 17 other attorneys general ask for power to investigate police misconductJun 04, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois' attorney general asked Congress in a letter Thursday to grant his office the power to investigate "practices of unconstitutional policing." After...
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Trump's above the Twitter lawJun 04, 2020 1:00 am - In January 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump bragged that his supporters were so loyal that he "could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I would...
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Just take your feet off their necksJun 03, 2020 1:00 am - Almost 200 years ago, Sarah Grimké, an anti-slavery and feminist activist said: "I ask no favors ... I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is ...
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What leadership meansJun 03, 2020 1:00 am - History can be cruel. The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., who was unquestionably America's most prominent prophet and practitioner of nonviolence, was followed ...
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In a word, dishonorJun 03, 2020 1:00 am - The actions of the Minneapolis police officers involved in the tragic death of George Floyd last week have been met with righteous outrage throughout the country. Police...
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A police witness to protests: Conflict persists between tension, dutyJun 02, 2020 1:00 am - As a senior in college at San Jose State, I began my policing career in January of 1967. I graduated with my bachelor's degree and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant i...