The Romeoville Holiday Ornament, celebrating the Parks and Recreation Department’s 60th anniversary, is now on sale for $15 at the Recreation Center and Village Hall.
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One Golden Summer
In 2014, the Jackie Robinson West Little League became the first all-Black team to win the Little League U.S. Baseball Championship, but their victory was marred by accusations of breaking residential boundary rules, prompting filmmaker Kevin Shaw to investigate the complex issues of race, power, and money in youth sports.
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ACA record-breaking enrollment as Trump administration may repeal key provisions to coverage
The Biden-Harris Administration has reached a record-breaking enrollment of nearly 24 million Americans in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace for 2025, doubling enrollment since President Biden took office.
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Governor’s Affirm Biden as the Democratic Nominee
The binary choice is between someone who has continually delivered for us, our states and the people of our states and someone whose vision for the future of our country is downright dangerous.
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Civil War: A Gripping Dystopian Thriller Exploring Journalistic Ethics in a Fractured America
Alex Garland’s dystopian thriller “Civil War” explores the ethical quandaries of journalism in a fractured America, urging viewers to confront uncomfortable truths about the state of our society and the dangers of unchecked power.
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Federal court halts Biden’s Student Loan Debt Forgiveness for now
Conservatives have attacked the debt forgiveness plan as expensive overreach of executive authority since the plan was announced. In this case, the six states argued that the debt forgiveness plan could incentivize student loan borrowers with loans serviced by the states, which aren’t eligible for debt forgiveness, to swap those loans for federal loans that are eligible, costing the states money, according to USA Today.
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Supreme Court Justice Jackson Proclaims: ‘We’ve Made It. All of Us’
By Stacy M. Brown The Times Weekly, News Two hundred and thirty-two years, 116 justices, 108 white men, six women, 2 Black men, and 1 Latinx woman later, the United States Supreme Court finally has an African American woman serving as Associate Justice. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson earned confirmation with a 53-47 vote, breaking the […]
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OP-ED: Attacking the Right to Vote Has Been Going on for Years So Too Must Our Advocacy to Preserve Democracy
In today’s environment, too many thought leaders are making conversations about voting rights academic, but the motivation for restricting voting is simple. Republicans wants to hold onto power. They want control at every level of government, from school boards to prosecutor and district attorney races to state legislatures to statewide offices to Congress and the White House. That creates conflict, because in the marketplace of ideas, fewer and fewer Americans are subscribing to the GOP vision for the nation.
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How’s Joe Biden Doing?
It’s been about a year since Joe Biden took office as President, and though it’s still too early to draw firm conclusions about his performance, it’s not too early to discern some trends. Especially in light of how Biden positioned himself in the 2020 campaign and, I believe, how he still sees himself: as a centrist and a moderate who […]
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Will County reaches severe case level as Biden White House sends out free COVID tests
Will County has reached the Severe Risk level for daily COVID infections and positive test rates, according to county health officials. The most recent figures show the rate of new cases at 192 per 100 thousand population (total population 690,000), with a positive test rate of 22%. The vaccination rate remains at just over 70% of all residents with 1 dose or more of COVID vaccine. Hospitalizations, cases and deaths have experienced a sudden spike over the past 30 days after a slight decrease.
