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Decision 2020

Facebook to ban political ads a week before Election Day

MENLO PARK, Calif. (UPI) -- Facebook said Thursday it will not accept political ads in the final week of the 2020 campaign and take other steps to encourage voting and reduce "post-election confusion." Facebook criticism over handling of political ads in 2016 -- and the "solution" Facebook was criticized in 2016 for its hands-off approach to political ads during the presidential campaign. Founder Mark Zuckerberg promised Thursday that the platform will be much more active this time in eliminating misinformation […]

todaySeptember 3, 2020 31

Decision 2021

Petitions available for Pana and Nokomis city offices

PANA/NOKOMIS -- Petitions are now available for those wishing to run for office in the cities of Pana and Nokomis. In Pana, according to city clerk Terry Klein, the offices of mayor, clerk and treasurer will be elective offices. Additionally, one seat from each ward, plus a special election for a two-year unexpired term in Ward 2, will be up for election. Klein is retiring, but it is currently not known whether mayor Don Kroski or treasurer Pete Scherzer are […]

todaySeptember 2, 2020 64

Decision 2020

Ad blitz begins for Pritzker’s progressive income tax proposal

SPRINGFIELD (The Center Square) – Illinois voters will decide whether the state will move to a progressive income tax model from a flat tax this November, and the advertising blitz is underway. The group “Vote Yes for Fairness” and AARP have produced ads supporting the proposed constitutional amendment. One ad claims 97 percent of Illinoisans will pay the same or less in taxes, while people making above $250,000 will pay more. Another ad said a yes vote will raise taxes […]

todayAugust 24, 2020 63

Illinois

Miller questions the seriousness of Springfield Democrats regarding ethics reform

SPRINGFIELD -- State Rep. Chris Miller (R-Oakland) gets a good chuckle anytime he hears about the new ethics plan now being pushed by Democrats. “I think anytime you hear Democrats talking about getting serious about ethics reform, you have to take it tongue and cheek just based on what we’ve experienced,” Miller states. “In the last year, Republicans have filed somewhere around 30 reform bills that never even saw the light of day.” Political corruption is the subject of three […]

todayAugust 19, 2020 106

National

President Trump to pardon suffrage icon Susan B. Anthony

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will posthumously pardon suffrage icon Susan B. Anthony for her arrests nearly 150 years ago for unlawfully voting. Trump made the comments during a White House ceremony recognizing the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote. "I can't believe this hasn't happened before," Trump said of pardoning Anthony, who violated laws that permitted only men to vote. "She got pardons for a lot of […]

todayAugust 18, 2020 55

Decision 2020

Montgomery County receiving many mail-in ballot apps

HILLSBORO -- Montgomery County Clerk Sandy Leitheiser is reporting the office is receiving a huge response regarding voting by mail, with 1,200 postcards received in response for ballots via mail. "We had 628 voters vote by mail for the entire November 2018 election," Leitheiser states. "We already have double that back just one week after the postcards were mailed." Postcard mailings were sent to voters with active registrations on July 31. Office diligently working on vote-by-mail ballot applications Leitheiser notes […]

todayAugust 14, 2020 60

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East Central Illinois Region

Witt man faces charges in connection to local murder

WITT -- A Witt man is facing charges in Montgomery County Court in relation to a murder that took place on Sunday, Aug. 2 at 103 Vermilion St. As a result of an investigation by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department, 30-year-old Allan J. "AJ" Frayer was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. Per the investigation, multiple gunshots from a .22 caliber rifle and knife wounds were the result of the […]

todayAugust 14, 2020 40

Columnists

KNAPP: America doesn’t have presidential debates, but it should

On August 6, the Commission on Presidential Debates denied US President Donald Trump’s request to increase the number of debates between himself and Democratic nominee Joe Biden from three to four. Trump’s case: The expansion of voting by mail means that many ballots will have been cast before the first scheduled fake debate on September 29. The CPD’s response: “[T]he debate schedule has been and will be highly publicized. Any voter who wishes to watch one or more debates before […]

todayAugust 14, 2020 60

Capital Area Region

Pritzker to require businesses to enforce mask rules or face fines up to $2,500 after Democrats let rule stick

SPRINGFIELD (The Center Square) – For the next five months, Illinois business owners and their employees are required to tell customers to wear a mask or they could face fines of up to $2,500. Despite Republicans who wanted to suspend the rule because they said it could still criminalize business owners, Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s fines for businesses that don’t comply with mask and social distancing requirements amid COVID-19 concerns survived a rule committee. After an hour behind closed doors, the […]

todayAugust 12, 2020 14

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