Articles filed under Politics
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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...
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Republicans announce effort to repeal SAFE-T ActJan 20, 2022 12:00 am - Republicans are calling for their Democratic counterparts in the Illinois House to join them in efforts to repeal criminal justice reforms, known as the Safety, Accounta...
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'Proportionality' and the challenge facing Biden, EuropeJan 19, 2022 10:00 pm - No one is sure what Vladimir Putin is going to do. Smash and grab, inflicting pain on Ukraine and then a pull back? March to Kyiv? Artillery or missile strikes across th...
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Joe Biden's lies may not even be in his partisan interestJan 19, 2022 12:00 am - How do you explain why an ultra-experienced politician makes a major speech on the behalf of a legislative goal that is both doomed to fail and unpopular with voters? Es...