Articles filed under Politics
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Topinka: Income tax rollback means '$2 billion collapse'Jul 09, 2014 1:01 am - QUINCY, Ill. - Illinois Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka is warning of "a $2 billion collapse" next year when the state's temporary income tax increase begins to roll back....
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Democrats offer pushback against Hobby Lobby rulingJul 09, 2014 1:01 am - U.S. Reps. Brad Schneider of Deerfield and Tammy Duckworth of Hoffman Estates are among the Democrats nationally behind legislation aimed at upending the effects of the ...
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Legislative panel might halt anti-violence probe temporarilyJul 09, 2014 1:01 am - An Illinois legislative panel is considering temporarily suspending a key part of its investigation into Gov. Pat Quinn's troubled anti-violence program after it receive...
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Obama presses Congress to consent on border moneyJul 09, 2014 1:01 am - WASHINGTON - Tens of thousands of children streaming from chaotic Central American nations to the U.S. border have overwhelmed the government's ability to respond, senio...
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New law furthers Illinois adoptees' rightsJul 09, 2014 1:01 am - Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation aimed at allowing adoptees and birth family members to learn more about their family histories. The bill will help people gain info...
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State lags in hiring to oversee 'fracking'Jul 09, 2014 1:00 am - More than a year after a much-lauded compromise paved the way for high-volume oil and gas extraction in Illinois, the agency in charge of overseeing the practice has hir...
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Editorial: Longing for more of Sen. Dixon's approachJul 08, 2014 5:01 am - There was a place for Alan Dixon in the U.S. Senate in the 1980s. Would that there could be a place for him now. Not that Dixon, who died on Sunday just one day shy of h...
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Singer Pat Boone backs suburban RepublicanJul 08, 2014 1:01 am - Political Editor mriopell@dailyherald.com Legendary singer Pat Boone, famous for hit songs in the 1950s and 1960s, praised Republican Larry Kaifesh of Carpentersville fo...
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Cleveland tops Dallas in bid to host RNC in 2016Jul 08, 2014 1:01 am - WASHINGTON - Cleveland won the unanimous backing of a Republican National Committee panel on Tuesday, all but guaranteeing the GOP's 2016 presidential pick will accept t...
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Obama urgently asks $3.7 billion for border crisisJul 08, 2014 1:01 am - WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama appealed to Congress on Tuesday for $3.7 billion in emergency spending to deal with the immigration crisis on the nation's southern b...