Articles filed under Politics
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Hinz: Suburban projects abound in $1.5 trillion omnibus spending packageMar 17, 2022 1:00 am - There's money to help Joliet get Lake Michigan water and expand counseling and shelter services to at-risk LGBTQ kids. Not to mention all sorts of sewer work, $750,000 t...
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Gas giveaway causes blocks-long traffic jamsMar 17, 2022 1:00 am - The gas station shimmered up ahead, like an oasis for the woman's thirsty vehicle - a tantalizing half-dozen car lengths away. She'd been waiting for 2½ hours Thursday m...
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: Nine months from mid-terms, Democrats turn to word gamesMar 17, 2022 1:00 am - House Democrats recently went on their annual retreat in Philadelphia. The purpose was to discuss policy initiatives for the coming months and, most of all, to come up w...
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Daily Herald columnist Jim Slusher: A crisis for newspapers has produced benefits for readersMar 17, 2022 1:00 am - Political opponents have enjoyed taking Rahm Emanuel to task for his famous call to never let a crisis "go to waste," but the former Chicago mayor and current U.S. ambas...
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Guest opinion: Beware a Trojan Horse for nuclear bailoutsMar 16, 2022 1:00 am - With the nuclear reactor crisis emerging in Ukraine as a backdrop, a bill - HB 5589 - has been introduced in the Illinois legislature that would remove a decades-old mor...
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Pritzker pulls another Prisoner Review Board appointmentMar 16, 2022 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Max Cerda was convicted of a double murder when he was 16. He was 35 years old when he was paroled and began working with ex-offenders in Chicago to help t...
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Syndicated columnist: Long COVID and our trust in governmentMar 16, 2022 1:00 am - As a country, we are suffering from a severe case of long COVID. I don't mean the lingering physical symptoms, awful as they sometimes are. I mean what it has done to ou...
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Syndicated columnist Marc Dion: The junkie's and the driver's lament: You gotta have somethin'Mar 15, 2022 1:00 am - Where I live, it's impossible to get heroin that isn't laced with fentanyl. In fact, most of what is sold as heroin is fentanyl. If you use it as directed, fentanyl kill...
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Syndicated columnist Debra Saunders: The People's House - without the peopleMar 15, 2022 1:00 am - It's been close to two years since Congress closed its doors to the public to slow the spread of COVID-19. While states and local governments are discarding their COVID-...
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Daily Herald Opinion: DuPage County's participation may help towns fighting impact of proposed rail mergerMar 15, 2022 1:00 am - Eight suburban towns fighting a pending railroad merger have gained a valuable ally: DuPage County. The DuPage County Board voted last week to join the communities in op...