Articles filed under Politics
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Small business and politics: How did Graves do?Dec 14, 2014 6:32 am - NEW YORK - Small companies were still reeling from the recession in 2011 when Sam Graves became chairman of the House Small Business Committee. As the Missouri Republica...
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Survey shows Internet's broadening political roleDec 14, 2014 5:33 am - Would-be 2016 presidential candidates take note: the Internet may potentially make or break your campaign. A survey released Thursday by the University of Southern Calif...
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Spending bill vote thwarted by challenge from CruzDec 13, 2014 12:01 am - Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader and minority leader who will switch roles in a few weeks, thought they had a path forward to complete a $1.1 t...
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Thousands march in D.C. to protest police killingsDec 13, 2014 12:01 am - WASHINGTON - Thousands of protesters marched across the country Saturday - past the White House in the nation's capital, along iconic Fifth Avenue in New York and in the...
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Protesters of police killings to march on WashingtonDec 12, 2014 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Protesters plan to converge on the nation's capital Saturday to help bring attention to the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police and call for ...
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Congress fails to revise government FOIA lawDec 12, 2014 10:00 pm - Associated Press WASHINGTON - Advocates for greater openness in government were frustrated after Congress failed to update the Freedom of Information Act despite biparti...
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Jim Edgar says Topinka's '06 loss to Blagojevich 'the public's fault'Dec 12, 2014 4:30 am - Former Gov. Jim Edgar said it was clear after Judy Baar Topinka's 2006 loss to Democrat Rod Blagojevich in the governor's race that she'd try to get back into state gove...
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Sleepy Hollow again considers seeking tax increaseDec 12, 2014 12:01 am - Sleepy Hollow again will ask residents to approve a property tax hike in April. Voters in November overwhelmingly rejected the village's request for an 82 percent proper...
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Prisons director retiring at end of yearDec 12, 2014 12:01 am - SPRINGFIELD - The director of Illinois' Department of Corrections has announced plans to retire, one of the first state agency heads to announce he's leaving at the same...
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In the spending bill: School lunches, light bulbs, potDec 12, 2014 12:01 am - WASHINGTON - School kids, truckers, marijuana smokers and fans of old-fashioned light bulbs are among millions of Americans with something extra riding on passage of a g...