Articles filed under Politics
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Editorial: States, municipalities deserve federal assistance in health crisisApr 20, 2020 11:00 pm - With the announcement of a deal Tuesday, the U.S. Senate set in motion likely imposition of a fourth economic stimulus package - this one to shore up a loan program from...
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We're getting closer to control of COVID-19, but protective measures still importantApr 20, 2020 1:00 am - On Dec. 31, 2019, China first reported a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan Province. By Jan. 7, the Chinese health authorities confirmed this was a novel coronavirus. ...
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Mail-order dreamsApr 19, 2020 1:00 am - As a working-class man who shrewdly avoided work by becoming a writer, the United States Post Office means three things to me. The first is that postal jobs are good job...
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The opioid epidemic meets the COVID-19 pandemicApr 19, 2020 1:00 am - Recovering opioid addicts are a vulnerable community during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Now more than ever, they are susceptible to relapse because effective recovery ofte...
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Federal judge imposes oversight on Cook County clerkApr 17, 2020 1:00 am - A federal judge on Friday ordered court oversight for the Cook County clerk's office after determining Clerk Karen Yarbrough has violated anti-patronage hiring rules. In...
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Many small businesses won't survive pandemicApr 17, 2020 1:00 am - On March 20, Gov. Pritzker ordered thousands of businesses to close and left thousands more, like mine, in a kind of limbo that might as well be a shutdown. Pritzker's o...
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How to find a drive-up Wi-Fi hot spot by ZIP codeApr 17, 2020 1:00 am - As students across Illinois get accustomed to remote learning, state agencies have released a new tool aimed at connecting those who need internet to drive-up Wi-Fi hot ...
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Independence has been hallmark of VOA in telling America's storyApr 17, 2020 1:00 am - For more than 40 years, Willis Conover was perhaps the most famous American in the world that most Americans had never heard of. From the mid-1950s until 1996, Conover's...
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Save lives - appoint a supply chain czarApr 16, 2020 1:00 am - In my conversations with our local hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, I have consistently heard the same concern: "We are worried about our stock of personal protec...
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Pritzker fights COVID-19 from Chicago, irking some downstateApr 16, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. J.B. Pritzker has spent countless hours plotting and planning strategy in the state's race against the COVID-19 pandemic. Those who live in central an...