Articles filed under Politics
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Budget controls, consolidations can improve college affordabilityNov 08, 2021 12:00 am - Many people believe America's higher education model is broken. They point, with justification, to the high cost of tuition, the resulting large loan balances students g...
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Pritzker signs change to Health Care Right of Conscience ActNov 08, 2021 12:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday signed a controversial amendment that bars the use of moral objections as a reason for refusing to comply with workplace COVID-19 requiremen...
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How Democrats lost in Virginia - and may lose again in 2022Nov 07, 2021 1:00 am - When you tell people that something they see right before them does not exist, you lose their vote. That's what Virginia Democrat Terry McAuliffe did as he campaigned fo...
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Extremism, nostalgia, sports - the dwindling acts of faith in AmericaNov 07, 2021 1:00 am - Some habits are hard to break. Smoking. Drinking. Drugs. Some habits, once broken, are hard to pick up again. Voting. Going to church on Sunday. Reading a daily newspape...
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Editorial: A win for centrists and the suburbsNov 06, 2021 2:00 pm - If you pay attention to the news, you understand that Tuesday's elections in Virginia and New Jersey sent shock waves through the political system and messages to both p...
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Redistricting lawsuit to be heard in early DecemberNov 05, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - A three-judge federal court panel on Friday set the week of Dec. 6 as the time it will hear three consolidated cases challenging the new legislative distri...
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What kind of shot does Kinzinger really have at another office?Nov 05, 2021 1:00 am - Just days after saying he wouldn't seek reelection to his seat in Congress, outgoing Illinois Republican U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger raised eyebrows in a recent CNN intervi...
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Note to Dems: It's not 2020 anymoreNov 05, 2021 1:00 am - There's been a lot of attention paid to President Joe Biden's falling job approval rating. And it is indeed going down, down, down. But along with confidence in the pres...
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'That city is in great hands': Barrington teachers, staffers share memories of Boston's mayor-electNov 04, 2021 1:00 am - Boston is older than the state of Illinois, but it was up to Barrington schools in the 21st century to produce that city's first mayor who was not a white man. Michelle ...
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Sen. Sinema: The outsider is inNov 04, 2021 1:00 am - I spied a woman in a purple and silver wig, walking around the Senate floor with astronaut Mark Kelly, who was newly sworn in as a Democratic senator from Arizona. Bewil...