Articles filed under Politics
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Estrich: The cost of meat and the middle classOct 21, 2021 1:00 am - By Susan Estrich The answer is almost always $20. As in, how much do you think this turkey sandwich cost? Hint: it used to be $10. Extra points: Remember, we're in Cali...
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Pritzker touts job training program for electric vehicle industryOct 21, 2021 1:00 am - As part of his plan to boost the number of electric vehicles on the road, Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday announced a training program for the manufacture and repair of t...
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Lawmakers cancel Thursday sessionOct 20, 2021 1:00 am - This report has been updated to identifiy Terri Bryant as state senator and that four women in the Senate Republican Caucus made clear their opposition to repealing ...
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Casten has more than $1 million saved for 2022 campaign; GOP challengers far behindOct 20, 2021 1:00 am - Two-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Sean Casten of Downers Grove started October with a tremendous financial advantage over the two Republicans vying to unseat him in 2022, fe...
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De Rugy: Trump tariffs fail but Biden keeps them anywayOct 20, 2021 1:00 am - The United States is known as the land of the free, but it has become a place where the government decides whom we are allowed to buy from and sell to. For instance, whe...
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'I am tired. We are tired': A Letter from a COVID-19 ICU doctorOct 20, 2021 1:00 am - I am tired. We are tired. March 18th, 2020, is a day I will never forget. We opened our first COVID-19 unit and I began admitting patients with suspected COVID pneumonia...
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Editorial: Local governments should meet in personOct 20, 2021 1:00 am - (in collaboration with the Illinois Press Association) Every local government has issues large and small that affect the lives of the people it serves. Should residents ...
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Guest View: Flooding will get worse but fed help may be on the wayOct 19, 2021 1:00 am - The devastation of Hurricane Ida, along with numerous flooding and severe weather events across Illinois this year, come as a painful reminder that communities must be p...
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Stadelman: Our communities need a healthy pressOct 19, 2021 1:00 am - Democracy dies in darkness. Those words underscore the masthead of The Washington Post every day. Sadly, the light journalism brings to many communities in Illinois and ...
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Barone: The troubling legacy of de Blasio's destructionOct 19, 2021 1:00 am - By Michael Barone As his two terms as New York's mayor approach their end, and long after his presidential campaign ended with a whimper, Bill de Blasio has chimed in wi...