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Column: Meet the career problem solver charged with fixing Illinois’ unemployment system
In his remarks at the close of the spring session of the Illinois General Assembly in late May, state Senate President Don Harmon singled out his chief of staff, Kristin...
Column: Like this time in 2016, Trump looks doomed to defeat — that’s why Democrats are worried
Four years ago at this time — the middle of October 2016, just weeks from Election Day — I was taking considerable comfort in reading the polls. A Monmouth University...
Column: The great unanswered question in the presidential race is not the one about ‘court packing’
It's vexing, I admit, that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his surrogates have been dodging the question of whether they plan to try to expand the size of the...
The Tweet of the Week poll, it doth rule
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Column: Making sense of the 3/5th vs. majority of votes requirement for the graduated tax amendment
Confession time: I've been scratching my head all year, each time I come across the explanation that amending the Illinois Constitution requires the approval of "either three-fifths of those voting...
Column: Inconvenient truth: Graduated-rate income tax would make it easier to tax certain retirement income. And that’s a good thing!
In a devious bit of campaign strategy in the final weeks of the 2020 campaign, opponents of graduated state income tax rates have driven the third rail of Illinois politics...
Don’t tiptoe around your responsibility to vote in the Tweet of the Week poll. In that other election as well, while you’re at it.
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Column: Get well, President Trump! But not too quickly, please.
No, sorry, I'm not wishing President Donald Trump a speedy recovery from COVID-19. Not because I want him to lose to challenger Joe Biden in next month's election, though I...
Column: Kim Foxx is taking a big risk ducking TV debates with challenger Pat O’Brien
It's not uncommon for incumbents to decline to debate their challengers. Debates have a way of leveling a playing field that's often tilted strongly toward incumbents. They grant free exposure...