Articles filed under Politics
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Daily Herald columnist Jim Slusher: Good news may not sell, but we can't do without itDec 01, 2022 12:00 am - A line in a note from a reader about my column last week focusing on good news stories has stuck with me. Fred Dryden, of Huntley, began his email with a reflection on t...
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Guest Columnist Arthur I. Cyr: A blocked Florida law and attempts to dictate expressionDec 01, 2022 12:00 am - Florida Republicans, including Gov. Ron DeSantis, have just won big in the election but also suffered a major loss in court. Citing "1984," George Orwell's classic novel...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: Keep the statute of limitations - for women's sakeDec 01, 2022 12:00 am - Forget the statute of limitations in New York. On Thanksgiving, the Empire State's Adult Survivors Act became law - which gives adults who were sexually assaulted outsid...
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Lake County prosecutors aim to keep murder, sex crime defendants jailed after bail ends Jan. 1Nov 30, 2022 12:00 am - The Lake County state's attorney's office has begun the process of keeping dozens of jailed defendants, including those charged with murder and sex offenses, behind bars...
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: Trump gets played in Mar-A-Lago dinnerNov 30, 2022 12:00 am - What is sure to be one of the weirder moments of the 2024 presidential campaign has just taken place before the campaign is even fully under way. Here is the short vers...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: The two parties are not the sameNov 30, 2022 12:00 am - Sixty is the magic number to beat a filibuster in the United States Senate. Sixty votes means a bill is on its way to becoming law, at least as far as the Senate is conc...
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Students, parents object to speaker at Prospect HighNov 29, 2022 12:00 am - Prospect High School billed motivational speaker and activist Calvin Terrell's appearance at an all-school assembly Tuesday as an event spreading a message of empathy, k...
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Tim Degnan, former state senator and Daley adviser, dies at 82Nov 28, 2022 12:00 am - Tim Degnan, a former state senator and longtime top adviser to former Mayor Richard M. Daley, died last week at his home in Oak Brook. He was 82. In a 1995 Sun-Times pro...
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Indicted Chicago Alderman Edward Burke won't run againNov 28, 2022 12:00 am - An extraordinary era in Chicago politics ended quietly on Monday - and not in the way the city council dean once predicted. Indicted Alderman Edward Burke chose not to s...
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Lightfoot files paperwork to run for reelectionNov 28, 2022 12:00 am - After turning in her nominating petitions Monday morning - a stack of signatures nearly half as tall as she is - Mayor Lori Lightfoot flexed a bit as she explained her d...