Articles filed under Politics
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Retract or resign: County board members assail DuPage sheriff over weapons ban remarksJan 17, 2023 12:00 am - Some DuPage County residents and several county board members are calling on Sheriff James Mendrick to either retract his statement about not enforcing provisions of the...
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At Davos, Ukraine 1st lady urges leaders to 'use influence'Jan 17, 2023 12:00 am - DAVOS, Switzerland - Ukraine's first lady warned world leaders and corporate executives at the World Economic Forum's annual gathering in the Swiss town of Davos that no...
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First legal challenges to high-powered gun ban filedJan 17, 2023 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - A trio of gun owners and a firearms retailer in southeastern Illinois have filed the first two lawsuits in what's expected to be a flurry of litigation aga...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: The other shoeJan 17, 2023 12:00 am - The other shoe just dropped. Or maybe it's the first shoe. It's a new committee to keep an eye on the way the government collects information on private citizens. Good i...
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Syndicated columnist Jamie Stiehm: Full House theater: An American tragedyJan 17, 2023 12:00 am - A full House for four days and four nights felt like 40 in the political wilderness. Pumping his fist like a frat bro, California Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy eked out...
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John Kerry tells AP he backs UAE oil chief overseeing COP28Jan 16, 2023 12:00 am - ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - U.S. climate envoy John Kerry backs the United Arab Emirates' decision to appoint the CEO of a state-run oil company to preside over th...
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Report predicts billions in motor fuel tax revenue losses if state meets EV goalsJan 16, 2023 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Despite Illinois' efforts to smoothly integrate electric vehicles into the state's economy, a new report from the Illinois Economic Policy Institute is war...
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Aptakisic-Tripp District 102 to ask voters for an average of $468 a year for building upgradesJan 15, 2023 12:00 am - Buffalo Grove-based Aptakisic-Tripp Elementary District 102 will ask voters April 4 to approve a $49 million bond issue to fund building upgrades and add classrooms. The...
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Was Kane board member frozen out of committee assignments as political payback?Jan 15, 2023 12:00 am - Republican Mark Davoust has been on more than a dozen Kane County Board committees and named a chairman three times during his 18 years representing a St. Charles-area d...
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Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: What the Democratic trifecta hath wroughtJan 15, 2023 12:00 am - America has just exited a biennium of Democratic trifecta - control by the nation's and the world's oldest political party of the White House and majorities in the Senat...