Articles filed under Politics
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Two questions, one answer on reportingApr 18, 2019 1:00 am - Two very different questions were directed to me at a recent panel discussion on journalism. One questioner sought to know why we weren't reporting more details about a...
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Notre Dame and tankers of waterApr 18, 2019 1:00 am - At least he recognized the urgency. As the world gasped in horror at the sight of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral burning in a cataclysmic moment, the president of the Unite...
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Democratic rope-a-dope tactics and moreApr 17, 2019 1:00 am - By Walter E. Williams See the text of Williams' column from today's Daily Herald here: ...
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Trump is a threat to religious freedomApr 17, 2019 1:00 am - So another norm of public decency falls, like a historical building demolished to make way for one of Donald Trump's tasteless towers. When the president of the United ...
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No, America is not 'full'\Apr 16, 2019 1:00 am - President Trump recently traveled to the Mexican border and delivered one of the most foolish and fallacious statements of his entire presidency. Speaking to the surge o...
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Underwood gets to work on prescription drug cost reliefApr 16, 2019 1:00 am - Constituents don't call congresswoman Lauren Underwood's West Chicago office to ask what she's doing to get the Mueller report released. They call because their prescrip...
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The Julian Assange problemApr 16, 2019 1:00 am - They say that guests are like fish; after three days they become a bit whiffy. By this measure, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange smelled like an overladen fishing vessel...
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Leaders seek more flexibility on spending hotel tax revenue in DuPage CountyApr 15, 2019 5:33 am - State lawmakers from DuPage are pushing legislation that would give the county's municipalities without home rule the ability to spend some of their hotel tax dollars on...
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Guest View: Teachers union head backs Pritzker's 'fair tax'Apr 15, 2019 1:00 am - In my nearly 20 years of teaching English in a suburban Chicago high school, I had students from all backgrounds. The vast majority came from lower income and working-c...
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Hamilton: Hamilton: How our national politics has changedApr 14, 2019 1:00 am - By Lee H. Hamilton I became active in politics in the late 1950s, got elected to Congress in 1964, and have remained engaged in one way or another every year since then....