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Report on criminal justice: 18-year-olds don’t belong in adult court

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (PNS) -- A new report puts some weight behind arguments that young adults should not be prosecuted in adult court in Illinois. The findings from the Juvenile Law Center confirmed youth incarceration rates have fallen in recent years. Officials are starting to recognize the developmental differences between adolescents and adults. However, incarceration rates haven't declined among young adults, ages 18 to 24. Goodjoint: Let's raise the age of juvenile court above 18 Katrina Goodjoint, staff attorney for the Juvenile Law […]

todayOctober 16, 2020 30

Libertarian Ricky Harrington U.S. Senate

Decision 2020

EDITORIAL: Ark. U.S. Senate debate was the Harrington show due to Cotton no-show

Arkansas registered voters and Libertarians all over this country got to see a rare spectacle in politics Wednesday night. The spectacle: a one-man debate involving a Libertarian challenger to the current sitting Republican. That Republican, Tom Cotton, decided to decline and then no-show. That's right. For an entire hour and then roughly 15 minutes afterward for a press conference, the Arkansas PBS debate was the Ricky Dale Harrington, Jr. show. The lone opponent has grown to be a threat to […]

todayOctober 15, 2020 48

Breaking News

LIVE: Missouri gubernatorial forum underway

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Despite a delay as a result of Missouri Gov. Mike Parson testing positive for COVID-19 late last month, the show must go on. Regarding, the gubernatorial forum, that is. A news release from the Missouri Press Association Thursday states that they will hold their gubernatorial forum. The release states that it will take place at 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 9 at the Missouri Theatre in Columbia on the campus of the University of Missouri. KOMU 8 […]

todayOctober 9, 2020 25

Decision 2020

Voter access still a challenge for some Illinoisans with disabilities

CHICAGO -- The pandemic has pushed the issue of voter access to the forefront, but for Illinois' disability community, it's more than just another talking point. Voter turnout for people with disabilities was six percentage points lower than that of people without disabilities in the 2016 presidential election. Barry Taylor, vice president at Equip for Equality, said some people with disabilities don't cast a ballot due to accessibility challenges. "People with disabilities, just like anybody else, should be able to […]

todayOctober 6, 2020 27

Capital Area Region

Viral Facebook post reveals past crimes by Martin

SPRINGFIELD -- The crimes Abigail L. Martin has been accused of do not have limitations to three counties in Illinois or in North and South Carolina. It appears, according to a Facebook post last week, that many more victims are stepping up. Samantha Woolard of Delavan would publish a post on Thursday morning, Oct. 1. It has since gained traction, being shared 450 times as of press time. https://www.facebook.com/samantha.woolard.3/posts/3245526195574990 "My experience with Martin was an 'awful pleasure'" Woolard would describe […]

todayOctober 5, 2020 49

Ballot Access News

Election ruling appeal case in Sangamon County not likely to happen soon

SPRINGFIELD -- Two women with links to the Jeanne Ives campaign just won't give up on tossing alternative choices off the ballot in November's general election. Frances Bixler and Mary Perkins are trying to contest that a Libertarian candidate running for Congress collected signatures from registered Democrats and Republicans. Their contest states that this should not be allowed. However, at the August 21 meeting of the Illinois State Board of Elections ballot certification meeting, the board did not agree with […]

todayOctober 3, 2020 4

Capital Area Region

Martin makes court appearances, receives November hearings

SPRINGFIELD/HILLSBORO -- A woman with a last reported Macoupin County address would make court appearances in Springfield on September 21, as well as in Hillsboro Thursday. 23-year-old Abigail L. Martin would appear in-person with attorney Tawyna Frioli present. Frioli was present in place of Assistant Public Defender Stephanie Hammer, who was unable to appear. Allegations state that Martin wrote bad checks to pay water bills to the Village of Pawnee. The pending charge is forgery, which is a Class 3 […]

todayOctober 2, 2020 11

Decision 2020

EDITORIAL: It’s time to push election code reforms in 2021 for Illinois

Illinois is not foreign to ridiculous election laws. As a matter of fact, they have the second-worst and second-most restrictive ballot access laws in the nation, second to Tennessee. Allow me to elaborate. Illinois v. Tennessee regarding ballot access laws In a normal election year, Illinois and Tennessee would require third-party candidates to collect ridiculous amounts of petition signatures to make the general election ballot. In Illinois, there is a 1% requirement based on the overall vote from the largest statewide […]

todaySeptember 30, 2020 13

Commentary

MORRIS: Won’t lose any sleep voting for Libertarian Donald Rainwater in Indiana

I’m thinking of doing something different in the gubernatorial election. Some will say I would be wasting my vote. The same temptation teased me in the 2016 presidential election. Disgusted that our political process delivered the two worst candidates imaginable in Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, I flirted with the idea of going third party or simply staying home and not voting at all. In the end, I resisted the urge. Giving serious thought to voting for Rainwater It was […]

todaySeptember 30, 2020 17

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