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U.S. Census Bureau Steve Dillingham

National

U.S. Census director Dillingham quits early

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The head of the U.S. Census would announce his resignation Monday, almost a year before he was to retire. This is amid a showdown over the Trump administration's orders about the counting of undocumented U.S. residents. In a resignation letter on his agency blog, Census Bureau Director Steve Dillingham praises U.S. Census employees who "made great sacrifices to continue our work" during the global pandemic. Dillingham to end his term as Census director Wednesday Dillingham said he […]

todayJanuary 18, 2021 14

Belichick Trump

Football News

Patriots’ Belichick to decline Presidential Medal of Freedom

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (UPI) -- New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said he will not accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Donald Trump this week. Belichick explained his decision in a statement released Monday: "Recently, I was offered the opportunity to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which I was flattered by out of respect for what the honor represents and admiration for prior recipients. Subsequently, the tragic events of last week occurred, and the decision has been […]

todayJanuary 11, 2021 16

Columnists

KNAPP: Biden wants welfare for the wealthy? What else is new?

In Joe Biden’s “Emergency Action Plan to Save the Economy,” the president-elect proposes to “[f]orgive a minimum of $10,000 per person of federal student loans.” Wait, some protest. That would be a subsidy for the more well-off, at the expense of the less well-off. They have a point. “[D]ebt relief overall, the New York Times notices, “would disproportionately benefit middle- to upper-class college graduates … especially those who attended elite and expensive institutions, and people with lucrative professional credentials like law […]

todayDecember 17, 2020 20

Decision 2020

GSA releasing funds for Biden transition team

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Money from the U.S. government for President-elect Joe Biden's transition team will be released from the General Service Administration, administrator Emily Murphy said Monday. Biden's team is now entitled to $7.3 million of resources and services available for a presidential transition Murphy said in a letter released by multiple news sources. Biden still projected winner Biden was declared the winner of the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election with 306 electoral votes to President Donald Trump's 232 votes. […]

todayNovember 23, 2020 14

Commentary

COMMENTARY: A New Illinois won’t fix anything, Alan Webber

So, I'm spending a half-day on my 34th birthday working on the website when I get bombarded with a bunch of Google Alerts. One of these alerts relates to anything relating to the state of Illinois. Among one of these alert blasts, this ridiculous op-ed today from the Kankakee Daily Journal was among them. Not even two paragraphs in did op-ed columnist Alan Webber make some factual inaccuracies: Webber states, "However, if you review election returns, Biden didn’t win the […]

todayNovember 21, 2020 20

Capital Area Region

Lawmaker calls for proportional allocation of Illinois’ electoral votes

SPRINGFIELD (The Center Square) – If Illinois lawmakers were ever given the chance to approve a change, they could join Maine and Nebraska in dividing up electoral college votes proportionally instead of it being a winner-takes-all state. Illinois has 20 electoral votes for the electoral college. That’s the national system used to elect the president of the United States. Illinois state Rep. Tim Butler (R-Springfield) has for years filed a bill to allow for proportional allocation of those votes based on […]

todayNovember 12, 2020 2

Decision 2020

Belmont University in Nashville prepares for final Trump-Biden debate

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (The Center Square) – In less than a week, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will face off for the second and final presidential debate before the Nov. 3 election – and the stage is set. The debate, organized by the Commission on Presidential Debates, will take place in the Curb Event Center at Belmont University in Nashville from 8 to 9:30 p.m. CDT on Thursday – 11 days before the election. “While the debate […]

todayOctober 17, 2020 5

Decision 2020

Federal judge affirms Wisconsin election body decision to keep Kanye West off the ballot

MILWAUKEE -- A Federal judge is upholding the decision of Wisconsin's election authority, keeping rapper Kanye West off the ballot. In a hearing Friday night, Judge John Zakowski made a ruling in favor of the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC), putting a final nail in the coffin for West's quest to make it on the ballot for President. West campaign would turn in petitions 14 seconds too late West filed the lawsuit against the WEC over their previous action to bar […]

todaySeptember 13, 2020 15

Illinois election laws third-party voter

Commentary

EDITORIAL: Wake Forest online editorial sure sounds like it’s bashing third-party voters

An editorial published Thursday morning in Wake Forest University's Old Gold & Black newspaper 'Third party voting minimizes electoral impact' surely appears to be attacking voters of third-party candidates. Let's go through this editorial hit piece by Alexandra Karlinchak paragraph by paragraph, shall we? Trump and Biden are part of the problem, not the solution With only 54 days until the 2020 election, tensions around the country are running at an all-time high. There is a lot at stake for a […]

todaySeptember 10, 2020 14

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