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Apr 17 2023
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Why GOP culture warriors lost big in school board races this month
Amid all the attention on this month’s elections in Wisconsin and Illinois, one outcome with major implications for 2024 flew under the national radar: School board candidates who ran culture-war campaigns flamed out.
Democrats and teachers’ unions boasted candidates they backed in Midwestern suburbs trounced their opponents in the once-sleepy races. The winning record, they said, was
PoliticoApr 10 2023
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Senate GOP wants Trump to stay away from 2024 races as his legal woes mount
Senate Republicans, including members of leadership and even Trump allies, say former President Trump should stay out of the 2024 Senate primaries, hoping to avoid a repeat of last year’s disappointing midterm elections.
They view Trump as becoming more of a political liability in next year’s Senate races as his legal problems mount.
The Manhattan district attorney charged
The HillMar 02 2023
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PETER ROFF: Chicago Isn’t Out Of The Woke Woods Yet
That voters in Chicago gave Mayor Lori Lightfoot the boot Tuesday was not unexpected. The margin of her defeat, however, was another matter. There are still nearly 90,000 votes left to be counted and that won’t change the outcome. Yet of all the ballots cast and counted, 83% of them were for someone other than Lightfoot. That’s a shellacking no matter how you look at it, even if she did end up
The Daily CallerMar 02 2023
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Coffee with your North Palos School Board Candidates
As the April 4th election draws near, candidates for North Palos School Board 117, Debbie Chaffee, and John Gawel are welcoming residents to a meet and greet. This will be a great opportunity to ask questions and gain insight into the many successes of our local schools and students! As in all elections, an informed voter is the most important role in maintaining the high standards we have for
Patch.comMar 08 2023
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Vallas, Johnson prepare for first debate before runoff election
CHICAGO — Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will face off in their first head-to-head televised debate before the runoff election. Before the highly anticipated matchup on Wednesday evening, the two candidates showed off their new endorsements. “He’s the best person for the job,” Wilson said. “Anybody that wants to deal with crime and not raise taxes as well, they’re my guy.” Wilson’s
WGNMar 01 2023
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Chicago mayoral race: Lightfoot ousted, but no clear winner yet
Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will meet in a runoff to be the next mayor of Chicago after voters denied incumbent Lori Lightfoot a second term, issuing a rebuke to a leader who made history as head of the nation’s third-largest city. Mr. Vallas, a former school CEO backed by the police union, and Mr. Johnson, a Cook County commissioner endorsed by the Chicago Teachers Union, advanced to the
Christian Science MonitorNov 24 2022
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Russia's parliament passes law banning 'LGBT propaganda' among adults
Russia's parliament on Thursday passed the third and final reading of a law that expands an existing ban on promoting "LGBT propaganda" to children by banning it among people of all ages.
Under the new law any event or act regarded as an attempt to promote homosexuality - including online, in film, books, advertising or in public - could incur a heavy fine.
The fine will be up to
ReutersApr 01 2023
Analysis
Why Putin Is Watching Bulgaria's Election Closely
Bulgarian voters will go to the polls on Sunday for the fifth time in two years, hoping for an as-yet elusive result from the ongoing contest between Boyko Borissov of the center-right GERB party and Kiril Petkov, who leads the We Continue the Change and Democratic Bulgaria anti-corruption coalition (PP-DB). Both are former prime ministers.
Bulgaria, a NATO nation since 2004 and a
NewsweekApr 27 2023
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Is Trump Inevitable? Some in the GOP Are Starting To Wonder
Standing before a room filled with lightly interested college students, self-described “political tourists” and even some honest-to-God undecided New Hampshire voters, Chris Christie used a town hall here last week to sketch out the political indictment against the defendant, Donald J. Trump, he thinks Republicans must prosecute to deny the former president his party’s nomination.
Yet
PoliticoMar 07 2023
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Oklahoma is famously conservative but it could vote this week to legalize weed
Oklahoma voters will decide Tuesday whether to make the state one of the most conservative to green light cannabis use for adults. State Question 820, the result of a signature gathering drive last year, is the only item on the statewide ballot. Other conservative states have legalized recreational cannabis use, including Montana in 2020 and Missouri last year, but several have rejected it,
Fortune