Column: Senator gets her money’s worth – Champaign News-Gazette*

Jim Dey: “It’s been decades since members of the U.S. Senate — principally Southern segregationists — so openly threatened to make decisions based solely on race. But growing identity politics have created a new world, to the point where statements once considered an affront to the concept of equal rights for all generate little public comment or criticism.”

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Northwestern Univ public safety report suggests ‘defund the police’ measures as crime in nearby Chicago soars – Campus Reform

To address this perceived bias, the consultants propose banning the Department of Safety and Security from describing the race of criminal suspects in campus crime alerts. “A policy on the use of racial identifiers in campus crime notices, and potentially eliminating usage altogether, would reduce [sic] discretion in including information that could perpetuate bias.”

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Column: New development group leader sees potential for business growth in Southland – Daily Southtown*

“The Southland Development Authority announced Kemp’s appointment Tuesday. The public-private partnership formed in late 2019 with funding from Cook County and various foundations to spur business growth…’People are overly focused on incentives,’ he said. ‘The reason why people come to Illinois and the Southland is more because of the assets we have than the incentives we provide.'”

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Column: Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s memoir ‘Every Day is a Gift’ charts the incredible path of a ‘poor mixed race girl’ – Chicago Sun-Times*

Lynn Sweet: “While much is known about the basic biography of Duckworth, a Democrat – the Illinois Army National Guard officer lost both legs and shattered her right arm when her Black Hawk helicopter was shot down in Iraq on Nov. 12, 2004 – her backstories of her relentless drive to rise above adversity are useful to know when we think we are having a bad day. Duckworth’s story is about her personal journey and is not a political tome.”

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Opinion: Democrats move to crush red states’ rise and threat – The Hill

“Democrats in blue states like Illinois, where the latest unemployment rate was 7.7 percent, don’t like the competition from lower-cost RTW neighbors such as Indiana, where unemployment is around 4.2 percent. They are pushing PRO to even the playing field. Who gets hurt? Workers, whose jobs may go outside the country, or disappear altogether through automation.”

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