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Showing posts with label Illinois House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illinois House. Show all posts
Friday, June 15, 2018

EXTRA: All-too-predictable, City Council gets new Latina member

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel made a pick Friday to fill an aldermanic vacancy, and it seems that Hizzoner made about as safe an establishment pick as ...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

EXTRA: Ill. House says “aye” to elected Chicago Board of Education

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When all was said and done, it seems the Illinois House of Representatives treated the idea of an elected board to run the Chicago Public ...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Politically partisan tactics have a knack of repeating themselves at Statehouse

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It’s true that Democrats in the Illinois House of Representatives used political tactics Thursday to take a partisan pot shot at the idea of...
Friday, April 11, 2014

Chapa LaVia versus the ‘reverse racist’ screechers? Sadly, it’s not a new issue

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It has been several years since I covered the Illinois General Assembly on a daily basis. But my memories include a few moments when someone...
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Gregory Tejeda
Chicago's far South Side, Illinois, United States
I am a Chicago-area freelance writer who has reported on various political and legal beats. I wrote "Hispanic" issues columns for United Press International, observed up close the Statehouse Scene in Springfield, Ill., the Cook County Board in Chicago and municipal government in places like Calumet City, Ill., and Gary, Ind. For a time, I also wrote about agriculture. Trust me when I say the symbolic stench of partisan politics (particularly when directed against people due to their ethnicity) is far nastier than any odor that could come from a farm animal.
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