Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker told the National Rifle Association (NRA) in a tweet to “leave us the hell alone” in the wake of a mass shooting that killed seven people in Chicago’s Highland Park suburb Monday. In a tweet on Tuesday, the NRA cited recent research from the nonprofit Crime Prevention Research Center, which found that “Since
Reading Time: 12 minutes Wisconsin Watch is a nonprofit newsroom that focuses on government integrity and quality of life issues. Sign up for our newsletter for more stories straight to your inbox. and donate to support our fact-checked journalism. The attack came without warning and, as far as Jessica “Jesi” Ewers could tell, without provocation. It was
Jared Moskowitz’s advocacy for the environment and tighter gun control laws earned him another set of endorsements Wednesday in his bid to represent South Florida in Congress. Moskowitz’s campaign to represent Florida’s 23rd Congressional District unveiled backing from the Sierra Club, the League of Conservation Voters, and the gun safety group Brady PAC. Their support
Current polls might have Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis walloping Charlie Crist if he’s the Democratic nominee, but the gubernatorial candidate told the party faithful Wednesday night that things are about to change. Meeting with the Miami-Dade Democratic Senior Caucus and the Democratic Haitian American Caucus of Florida on a Zoom call, Crist called the current
Two days after a mass shooting at the Highland Park Independence Day parade shocked the country and put renewed focus on weaknesses in Illinois’ gun laws, authorities continued to hash out how alleged gunman Robert Crimo III apparently bought a high-powered rifle despite troubling episodes in his background. A 2019 report from Highland Park police
Patrick Blanchfield I think we can pull back and go for a deep historical perspective here. At that point, we observe that the regulation and distribution — the control, in those terms, of firearms — has been a constitutive if not quite constitutional feature of the North American civilizational settler enterprise. Since the get-go, there
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — The Republican nominee for governor of Illinois, Darren Bailey, once held a campaign fundraising event at which he raffled off a Smith & Wesson AR-15, a weapon nearly identical to the type used in the Fourth of July parade massacre here this week. A 2019 video posted to Bailey’s campaign page
The Supreme Court began its October 2021–22 term under the shadow of looming reform: a presidential commission to study a restructuring of the judiciary and a bill in the House to add four seats to the bench. But the justices and their right-wing backers had little reason to worry. The court’s term ended last week
Joel Giambra, a Republican state Senate candidate in New York, blasted the “current form” of the GOP as he announced he is leaving the party and ending his campaign for office. On Twitter Wednesday morning, Giambra mentioned a whole host of issues for his decision to exit the GOP, including the party’s attitudes toward the
The United States has been constantly evolving since it was founded in 1776, but its survival as a democracy is now gravely endangered. A set of loosely interconnected developments at home and abroad is responsible for this crisis. From abroad, the US is threatened by repressive regimes led by Xi Jinping in China and Vladimir
Reprinted from hartmannreport.com Civil society requires that its citizens feel safe in public spaces; destroy that generalized sense of safety and you will radically warp public opinion to the right Yesterday was, by some media counts, the 309th terrorist mass shooting in America so far this year. No other developed country in the world experiences
Speak Out is a reader-generated column of opinions. If you there’s something you’d like to comment on in Elgin or beyond, send an email to ksorensen@tribpub.com. Please include “speak out” in the subject line. Unsympathetic response: “A lot of panic. A lot of fear.” While Gov. JB Pritzker’s response to the Highland Park mass shooting
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker told the National Rifle Association to leave his state the “hell alone” in response to the group tweeting about mass shootings occurring in gun free zones. “And 100% of mass public shootings happen with guns,” the Illinois Democrat tweeted Tuesday night in response
Civil society requires that its citizens feel safe in public spaces; destroy that generalized sense of safety and you will radically warp public opinion to the Right, which promises safety and “tough on crime,” while producing a whole new generation of safe-space destroyers. Our most fragile members of society are our children, which is why
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You could not ask for a sadder display of how America’s gun culture has begun to whittle away our other freedoms than the attack on the Fourth of July celebration in Highland Park, Illinois. A 21-year-old man with an assault rifle opened fire on the parade, killing seven spectators and orphaning a 2-year-old boy. Three
Tim Ryan has a problem. Gas and groceries are both spiking. Ongoing supply chain disruptions mean shelves are bare, and getting inflation under control with the Fed raising interest rates is going to sting as well. Consumers will pay more for everything from credit cards to mortgages. Homeowners looking to sell are going walk away
Fireworks What does it take for the city to start enforcing the above ground exploding fireworks ban? When I called the police dispatcher to report illegal fireworks she told me they had already had hundreds of calls about illegal fireworks and didn’t know when someone would be able to come out and check. Bombs being