Articles filed under Politics
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For small businesses, looming graduated tax will double down on hardshipMay 06, 2020 1:00 am - Samantha Palya started her pet-grooming business when she was 21. Based in South suburban Palos Hills, Absolutely Pawfect Pet Styling was growing at such a rapid pace th...
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The nation's report cardMay 06, 2020 1:00 am - The Department of Education just released results of the quadrennial National Assessment of Educational Progress tests in U.S. history, civics and geography given in 201...
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A preview of coming distractionsMay 05, 2020 1:00 am - As you probably already knew, the next six months of 2020 presidential campaigning are going to be ugly. I do not say this happily, but I do so based upon a lifetime of...
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How Congress has changedMay 05, 2020 1:00 am - If you feel like Congress has become less productive, less functional, and more partisan ... you're right. I've been thinking a lot lately about how it's changed over th...
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As deadline for referendum on independent redistricting passes, advocates refocusMay 04, 2020 5:30 am - The COVID-19 pandemic has killed the chance for voters to amend Illinois' constitution this year and establish independent redistricting, much to the chagrin of advocate...
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Joe Biden and the silence of the media lambsMay 03, 2020 1:00 am - Democratic Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar - self-styled feminists who bought every flimsy claim made...
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There are plenty of Shyannes in foxholesMay 03, 2020 1:00 am - These days, I believe I match the description of the bad father in the old Johnny Cash song, "A Boy Named Sue." I'm 62, and I'm "big, and bent, and gray, and old," as th...
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Sure, let's talk about the Vietnam WarMay 01, 2020 1:00 am - As many news organizations have noted, in just three months, the American death toll from the coronavirus has exceeded the number of Americans who were killed in the Vie...
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Constable: 50 years after Kent State shootings, 4 dead, a nation changedMay 01, 2020 1:00 am - As one of thousands of Kent State University students protesting the Vietnam War and President Richard Nixon's decision to expand the bloody campaign into Cambodia 50 ye...
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'Reopen Illinois' demonstration held in ChicagoMay 01, 2020 1:00 am - Anger and frustration were palpable Friday in the Loop as hundreds of people gathered in the Thompson Center plaza to rally against restrictions that have left scores of...