Articles filed under Politics
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How the left has used COVID-19 to bankrupt the United StatesJul 30, 2021 1:00 am - I have never bought the conspiracy theories that COVID-19 was a diabolical political plot to undermine the country. But what is apparent with each passing week is that t...
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Without shift on tax policy, pensions and structural deficit threaten crisis for stateJul 30, 2021 1:00 am - Consider everything that feeds the creation of public policy. There are lobbyists, rallies and marches. Don't forget charged rhetoric, clever spin, campaign contribution...
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Lawsuit over redistricting amendedJul 29, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Attorneys for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund have filed an amended complaint in federal court in a lawsuit that seeks to block a n...
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Former CIA director, Army Gen. Petraeus to headline Judson World Leaders ForumJul 29, 2021 1:00 am - Former CIA director and retired U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus will headline Judson University's World Leaders Forum this fall. Rather than being held at the Elgin school...
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Speech suppression is habit-formingJul 29, 2021 1:00 am - Speech suppression is a habit that the Biden administration and its liberal supporters can't seem to break. Many staffers may have picked up the habit in their student y...
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The search for truth on Jan. 6 brings tearsJul 29, 2021 1:00 am - I don't need a hearing to tell me what happened on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol, which was stormed by an armed mob. But the nation needs a reckoning on that deadly day. It...
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New law aims to expand affordable housing through $75 million investment, tax creditsJul 29, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday signed a measure aimed at increasing affordable housing investment in Illinois, as well as a measure expanding the state's l...
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Tommy Trojan goes for the goldJul 28, 2021 1:00 am - It was the summer of 1984. I had never set foot on the University of Southern California campus. The joke among law professors was that if we dropped USC and just called...
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Underwood plans town-hall meetings in Crystal Lake, Geneva and OswegoJul 28, 2021 1:00 am - U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood, a Naperville Democrat representing the 14th District, will have town-hall meetings next month in Crystal Lake, Geneva and Oswego to discuss m...
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Education services extended for students with special needsJul 28, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Students with special needs will be able to finish their last year of high school regardless of when their birthday falls on the calendar, while those who ...