Category: Political

Commentary Political

Reader’s Voice: Response: MAGA world danger

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September 26, 2022Dear editor; According to her recent contribution to The Voice, Becky Nelson felt compelled to respond to president Joe Biden after a speech in which he identified MAGA Republicans as a dangerous threat to our democracy (Reader’s Voice, September 22). After reading and attempting to digest Becky’s contribution,...

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Events Government Health Political

Criminal abortion blasted

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Speakers at a Tuesday, Sept. 27, press conference in Aurora on reproductive rights pose for a photo. From left are Rep. Katherine Clark, assistant speaker, House of Representatives; Congressman Sean Casten, D-6; and Jennifer Welch, president/CEO, Planned Parenthood of Illinois. Planned Parenthood's Aurora health center hosted the presentation.

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Events Fundraiser Political

Fall Freedom Fest BBQ event October 9

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Stamp Act PAC will be host to its annual Fall fundraiser in Plano starting at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9 at the Venue at ProCool, 115 E. South Street, Plano. Keynote speakers will include lieutenant governor candidate for the State GOP, Stephanie Trussell, and Pastor Steve Saunder, Plano Methodist Church....

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Opinion Political

Reader’s Voice: MAGA members not to be feared

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September 16, 2022Dear editor; It needs to be spoken. It needs to be replied, too. Joe Biden chose to spend most of a recent speech time on insulting and fearing MAGA or Ultra MAGA Republicans. He held up his fist when he described these tax-paying Americans as extreme and dangerous...

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Government Health Political

Abortion main issue: Pritzker

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By Peter Hancock Democratic Party governor JB Pritzker said Tuesday this week that abortion rights will be a central issue in the 2022 election, not just in his bid for reelection, but in races up and down the ballot. That includes races for Congress and the Illinois Supreme Court as...

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Community Political

Reader’s Voice: The League candidates forums ready

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August 18, 2022Dear editor; The Fall general election season is in full swing. With that comes candidate forums. As a 100+ year old, trusted organization, it is the League of Women Voters’ tradition to host candidate forums which voters use to get educated on candidates’ positions on issues of importance...

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Events Opinion Political

Reader’s Voice: Reproductive Justice conference online

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August 22, 2022Dear editor; Fear emboldens right-wing forces that make and use unjust laws to silence the vast majority who support reproductive justice, including the right to choose if and when to have children. Let’s continue to raise our voices and organize! It’s going to take a bold intersectional democratic...

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Feature Political

Mail-in vote to test state capacities: Financially, processing

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Last of two parts First part is available at thevoice.us/mail-in-voting-not-a-new-method-of-casting-ballots. Mail-in voting has become a popular topic for the upcoming election. Taryn Simons who wrote, “Laments from Quarantine” and “The Streets of New Orleans Under Quarantine:” “A deluge of absentee-ballot requests may, paradoxically, put pressure on traditional polling places. In...

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State Democratic Party seeks 2024 Convention

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By Jerry Nowicki Illinois Democrats are vying to make Chicago the host city for the Democratic National Convention in 2024 while considering who will lead their party for the next four years. Meanwhile, the State’s Republican Party is hearing calls for a censure of one of its sitting congressmen, Adam...

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Government Political

Governor Pritzker’s approval rating at 51% in State

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By Jerry Nowicki A new poll from the firm Morning Consult showed governor JB Pritzker’s approval rating at 51% among Illinois voters, or seven points above water in polling lingo. It’s the latest quarterly poll from the firm, and data included 14,258 registered voters polled from April 1 through June...

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Events Government Opinion Political

Reader’s Voice: Needed: Guts, brains, to change

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July 22, 2022Dear editor; Imagine a tax that confiscates one-half of the purchasing power of your entire life savings in less than eight short years! That’s what the current 9.1% inflation rate is doing to you and your family’s financial security. It cuts the purchasing power of your current wages...

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Commentary Environment Political

Reader’s Commentary: Initially resisting response, file essentially important

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By Vince Smith,Big Rock, Ill. Although occasionally offering my own personal thoughts and perspectives to this publication and its readers, I generally try to avoid attacking other contributors who of course have their own views which sometimes differ markedly from my own. Even recently, with great effort I resisted the...

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Feature Political

Political pressure on the poor must stop in true democracy

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A growing segment of the population views primarily everything the Nation’s founders said with a healthy dose of skepticism. For various reasons, the distrust associated with the establishing principles of American democracy has legitimacy. As the 2022 campaign season turns toward the general election, it’s hard watching as the plight...

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Political

Ken Griffin holds objectives in backing Richard Irvin

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What does Chicago billionaire Ken Griffin want from politics? To take over the Republican Party in Illinois? To be governor? A reporter called with these questions. As a retired politico and professor of politics, I get these inquiries from time to time. I don’t know Griffin personally. In 2020, I...

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