OPINION: The Democratic Party should not dismiss Tara Reade
Tommy Virgl, Contributing Writer
May 22, 2020
The #MeToo movement has been an essential mechanism for questioning positions of power, and for allowing the voices of survivors of assault to be heard. With the conversation just getting started, we need the movement more than ever. Tara Reade, who served as Joe Biden’s Senate staff assistant s...
Here’s who’s most likely in the running to be Joe Biden’s VP
Marcus Robertson, Contributing Writer
May 7, 2020
This November, we know the Democratic Party’s candidate is Joe Biden. But the other name on the ticket? Anybody’s guess. Biden said he’ll pick a woman in this year’s so-called “veepstakes.” His campaign says they’ve formed a selection committee, meaning the vetting process may have alr...
OPINION: Not all Bernie Sanders supporters will automatically back Joe Biden
Rebecca Meluch, Assistant Arts & Life Editor
May 6, 2020
When Bernie Sanders announced the suspension of his campaign two weeks ago, I began to have flashbacks to the 2016 presidential election. After he dropped out and endorsed Democratic presumptive Hillary Clinton four years ago, many progressive voters felt disheartened for having to cast a vote fo...
Biden on sexual assault allegation: ‘never, never happened’
May 1, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday categorically denied allegations from a former Senate staffer that he sexually assaulted her in the early 1990s, saying “this never happened.” Biden’s first public remarks on the allegation by former staffer Tara Reade...
Biden assault allegation prompts GOP attacks, Dem worries
April 30, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — A sexual assault allegation is raising Joe Biden's first big challenge as the Democrats' presidential nominee, fueling Republican attacks and leaving many in his own party in an uncomfortable bind. Biden's campaign has denied the allegation from his former Senate staffer Tara Reade,...
OPINION: In-person primary voting shouldn’t have happened during pandemic
Tommy Virgl, Contributing Writer
April 27, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has caused many publicly favored businesses and hotspots to grind to a halt, whether it be restaurants, bars, clubs, museums, hiking trails — the list goes on. With all of these small businesses shutting down, there’s one event that oddly has not been postponed in some stat...
Experts say COVID-19 might upend 2020 election
Cailey Gleeson, Nation & World Editor
April 20, 2020
Amid increasing uncertainties as coronavirus ravages the United States, the 2020 presidential election has been transformed as candidates’ responses to the crisis – or lack thereof – have been under intense scrutiny from the public and media alike. Not only has there been a shift in priority for politician...
Biden wins Illinois primary, AP reports
Emma Oxnevad, Opinions & Social Media Editor
March 17, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden emerged victorious in the Illinois Democratic primary elections, according to the Associated Press. Biden had a wide variety of endorsements all throughout the state, including Governor J.B. Pritzker, Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago and Senators Richard J. Durbin and...
Guía del votante del abogado del estado del condado de Cook
Hannah Mitchell, Multimedia Editor
March 16, 2020
Deslice hacia abajo para leer la entrevista de cada candidato. Candidatos demócrata: Kim Foxx Bill Conway Donna More Bob Fioretti Candidatos republicanos: Patrick O'Brien Christopher Pfannkuche...
Donna More — La DePaulia
Hannah Mitchell and Maria Guerrero
March 16, 2020
¿Qué está haciendo su campaña para alcanzar los votos latinx? Hemos pasado mucho tiempo en las comunidades. En realidad, pasé todo el fin de semana en Pilsen, La Villita. He estado trabajando con una mujer, Elizabeth Ramírez, que dirige un programa para personas que tienen familias latinas q...
Kim Foxx — La DePaulia
Hannah Mitchell and Maria Guerrero
March 16, 2020
¿Qué está haciendo su campaña para alcanzar los votos latinx? Hemos estado, uno, hablando de nuestros registros, ya que afecta a las comunidades, contratado nuestro primer asesor de políticas de inmigración, nuestro litigio afirmativo en la presentación de demandas contra el presidente Trump...
Bill Conway — La DePaulia
Ella Lee, Hannah Mitchell, and Maria Guerrero
March 16, 2020
¿Qué es lo que no funciona con el actual Fiscal del Estado? Simplemente no me gustó lo que estaba sucediendo en esa oficina. Había trabajado ahí, y realmente pude ver de primera mano lo importante que es tener una oficina del Fiscal del Estado y un sistema de justicia penal que sea honesto, ju...
