Articles filed under Politics
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The view of impeachment Republicans don't want you to seeJan 31, 2020 12:00 am - Even if you've been watching gavel-to-gavel television coverage of the Senate's impeachment trial, there's little you've been able to see beyond Chief Justice John Rober...
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5G wireless: Marketing hype or true progress?Jan 31, 2020 12:00 am - Everyone loves a shiny new toy, even if the old toy is working just fine. As a result, expert marketers capitalize on this human "flaw" and find ways to create a fear of...
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Illinois ethics laws among the weakest in the nation, legislators toldJan 30, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Government reform advocates told a panel of state lawmakers Thursday that Illinois has some of the weakest governmental ethics rules in the country and tha...
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An opportunity for you to help strengthen protections a newspaper providesJan 30, 2020 12:00 am - We're just getting started on a collaborative project we intend to boost the Daily Herald's coverage of local and state news, and we're already seeing encouraging signs ...
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Iowa could make Democrats' Bernie problem much, much worseJan 30, 2020 12:00 am - Just days before the 2008 Democratic presidential caucuses in Iowa, Hillary Clinton led Barack Obama by four points in the RealClearPolitics average of polls. Obama took...
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Trump's Labor Department provides clarity on joint employmentJan 29, 2020 12:00 am - Three years into the Trump administration, we see a clear pattern forming. The Obama administration implemented labor rules that make the labor market less flexible, oft...
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Comptroller, treasurer talk about fiscal state of IllinoisJan 29, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois' top fiscal and investment officers touted some of the economic policy initiatives laid out by Gov. J.B. Pritzker in his State of the State speech...
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Automatic voter registration glitch needs attentionJan 29, 2020 12:00 am - A glitch in the state's automatic voter registration program that resulted in more than 500 people who said they weren't U.S. citizens being added to the voter rolls sho...
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Senate bill would outlaw using live animals as carnival prizesJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - It is a mainstay of fairs and carnivals around the country: Sink a Ping-Pong ball into a fish bowl and win the goldfish swimming inside. But if a bill in the Illinois Se...
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Maybe, eventually, history will get someone's attentionJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - There were two TVs on in the gym. The one in the front - where all the training goes on - showed two teams from somewhere else battling for a ball. The one in the back,...