Articles filed under Politics
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Editorial: The false politics of good vs evilNov 23, 2019 1:00 pm - On Thursday, in homes and dining establishments across the country, families and friends will gather for Thanksgiving. And in a great number of those places, politics wi...
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How Facebook is gearing up to protect the U.S. Census from misinformationNov 23, 2019 5:00 am - The presidential election won't be the only big test of Facebook's efforts to fight misinformation in 2020: It's also a census year, and the social network is ramping up...
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Rollback of EPA oversight in Midwest favors pollutersNov 23, 2019 12:00 am - SAUGET, Ill. - Mamie Cosey and those living near this tiny, industrial village on the banks of the Mississippi River spent years wondering what poisons spewed from the t...
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Illinois lawmakers: Put pension reform on the 2020 ballotNov 22, 2019 12:00 am - Weeks after the Illinois General Assembly moved to put a progressive state income tax question on the November 2020 ballot, a Daily Herald investigation illustrated that...
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Amid regulation pressures for Big Tech, transparency the least-bad optionNov 22, 2019 12:00 am - A new Wall Street Journal expose finding that "Google has increasingly re-engineered and interfered with search results to a far greater degree than the company and its ...
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A district spent $2 million on artwork? The story of a story that wasn't a storyNov 21, 2019 12:00 am - Sometimes, journalism involves not reporting things that didn't happen. Here's an example: The caller, anonymous, was outraged. How, she wondered, could we not report t...
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Why Democrats don't want public to know origins of Ukraine probeNov 21, 2019 12:00 am - Why are House Democrats stonewalling questions about the identity of the Trump-Ukraine whistleblower? Start by taking them at their word. Perhaps they really are concern...
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State school board to make emergency rule changes in response to isolation room reportNov 20, 2019 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The state's board of education announced emergency rule changes Wednesday in response to a news story which detailed an overuse of "isolation rooms" in sev...
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Scientists: Dishonest or afraid?Nov 20, 2019 12:00 am - See the text of Williams' column from today's Daily Herald here: http://walterewilliams.com/scientists-dishonest-or-afraid/ ...
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Whistleblowers are fundamental to honest governmentNov 20, 2019 12:00 am - A few days ago, I was back on the island of Cyprus and had the occasion to visit my former colleagues at the American Embassy. As I went down one familiar hallway, I saw...