Articles filed under Politics
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Kremlin aggression recalls Cold War - and challenges NATOJan 26, 2022 12:00 am - The threat of Russian military invasion of the remainder of Ukraine represents the most serious military crisis and challenge in Europe since the Balkan wars of the 1990...
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Odd duck sings Senate swan songJan 25, 2022 12:00 am - Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was speaking on the Senate floor, so I rushed into the chamber, gobsmacked. The Arizona Democrat's voice was nothing special - pedestrian - but new t...
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Youngkin rips off the school mask mandateJan 25, 2022 12:00 am - Newly minted Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed nine executive orders and two directives that, among other things, ended a mandate that state employees be vaccinated an...
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A Trump-Clinton rematch? Please noJan 23, 2022 12:00 am - Say it ain't so. Trump-Clinton round two, I mean. Donald Trump is easy. He might be the only Republican who almost any Democrat could beat. Of course, he will have a har...
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Ex-Im is wasteful enough abroad - we don't need it at homeJan 23, 2022 12:00 am - For years now, the U.S. Export-Import Bank - an under-the-radar agency that provides subsidized loans to foreign firms willing to buy American products - has tried to re...
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Editorial: Create task force to fight rise in carjackingsJan 22, 2022 10:00 pm - It was only a few days before Christmas when Kimberly Lightford and her husband Eric McKennie were confronted by three masked carjackers in suburban Broadview. "I am tha...
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Republicans and Democrats are capable of blowing it in NovemberJan 21, 2022 12:00 am - By Byron York Bill Clinton used to say that all elections are about the future. It's true. Voters want to know what candidates will do in office - how they will fix prob...
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Constable: Immigration activists push ICE to #FreeThemAllJan 20, 2022 4:30 am - Upholding a new state law called the Illinois Way Forward Act, a federal court ruling on Jan. 13 required McHenry County to end its contract to house immigrants detained...
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The goal of portraying diversity in the suburbsJan 20, 2022 12:00 am - There was a time not so long ago in newspapering when about the only way readers would see the face of a Black person or other minority in the paper, and especially on t...
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How to honor King's legacy: Stop ignoring injusticeJan 20, 2022 12:00 am - "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" said Dr. Martin Luther King, whose birthday we celebrated this week. He and other wise women a...