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- Blogs, Bleader Nov 6, 2018
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Joravsky’s election predictions—going where the New York Times is too scared to venture
Ben Joravsky offers predictions for the 2018 midterm elections—including those for both houses of Congress.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 5, 2018
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Who's that speaking for the Sun-Times this time?
The legacy of the Sun-Times—what's that?
- News & Politics, Fall Preview Sep 19, 2018
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This November suburban voters have the chance to dump Trump's enablers
Get rid of rubber-stampers Roskam, Hultgren, and Kinzinger and stun the nation!
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 31, 2018
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Join Blue Beginning as it sends the Democratic troops into the collar counties
Part of Indivisible Chicago, the organization is a get-out-the-vote campaign focused on Republican-leaning suburbs and municipalities as well neighboring swing states.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 15, 2018
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Assault weapons used to be illegal. What happened?
Why did the U.S. government remove its ban on assault rifles?
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jan 4, 2018
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Property tax madness!
Homeowners’ rush to avoid losing money on the new Republican tax law is just the latest sign that the system for funding public education remains broken.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Dec 20, 2017
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Amid the horror of Trump and Rauner, there’s some reason for hope
Next year can’t possibly be worse, can it?
- Blogs, Bleader May 10, 2017
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In firing Comey, Trump pulls a Nixon—again
By sacking Comey, Trump shows a defiance of FBI investigators that even Nixon didn't dare.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics May 10, 2017
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DuPage Democrats have a chance to unseat Roskam, Trump’s health-care rubber-stamper
The Sixth District congressman could be vulnerable in his 2018 reelection bid.
- Blogs, Bleader May 5, 2017
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Four former cops turned aldermen push for police access to assault rifles, and other Chicago news
Also, Heineken acquires the rest of Lagunitas Brewing Co.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 8, 2017
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Rauner doesn't think the GOP's Obamacare replacement plan will work in Illinois, and other Chicago news
Also, the Chicago Jewish Day School was evacuated because of a bomb threat.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 14, 2016
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These Illinois elected officials tried to ban assault rifles like the one used by Omar Mateen
The U.S. had an assault weapons ban: What happened?
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 22, 2013
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The latest from the NRCC and the DCCC: I read it but you don't have to
Mindless drivel from America's two great political parties
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Aug 29, 2012
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Akins in our midst?
You don't have to cross the border into Missouri to find politicians with sex and abortion issues
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 26, 2010
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Anti-Illegal Immigration Group Endorses Local Candidates
The anti-immigration organization Americans for Legal Immigration PAC supports Peter Roskam and Isaac Hayes.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 14, 2008
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Note to Homer Glen residents: wear garlic
Dick Cheney to campaign for Marty Ozinga, who's up for Jerry Weller's seat, and other IL political developments.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 22, 2007
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The Mark Pera insurgency
Daniel Biss isn't the only netroots Democrat making bank online.
