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Longtime Glendale Heights president takes election fight to federal court Linda Jackson Updated 5/6/2021 6:02 PM Glendale Heights on Thursday night was poised to swear in a new village president for the first time in more than 20 years. But the election that made Chodri Khokhar village president is not over in the eyes of two other candidates, including the longtime incumbent, Linda Jackson.   Mike Ontiveroz has requested a partial recount of the official results from the April 6 e...

ANC must be treated like any other ‘non-compliant organisation’ “The perception is there that there is no toughness against non-compliance, which is not good for tax morality. The public must see how Sars deals with this matter, that it is costly to be non-compliant,” tax attorney at Tax Consulting South Africa, Jean du Toit. said. He said if a company is non-compliant, Sars has options to go for the company or the directors personally. In the case of an organisation such as the ANC, Sa...

  April 29, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — We warmly welcome you to join us for a tribute to the life, activism and legacy of Ernie Tate (1934-2021). Ernie Tate believed capitalism is a cruel and unjust system that has to be changed. Ernie was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1934 and emigrated to Canada in 1955. As a Marxist, union activist and revolutionary, Ernie spent his life working to achieve that in organizing against the war in Vietnam, in union...

At first blush, Joe Biden’s election as U.S. president brings respite from a world threatened by Donald Trump’s climate-denialist, dictator-coddling, xenophobic, racist, misogynist, rules-breaking regime. On second thought, 2021 will also initiate an unwelcome restoration of legitimacy to Western imperialism akin to Barack Obama’s rule. “Biden’s” (2020) recent Foreign Affairs article began by stressing how since 2017, “the international system that the United States so carefully ...

DuPage clerk asks what to do with votes cast for ineligible Glendale Heights candidates   Glendale Heights incumbant mayor Linda Jackson, right, whose name the Illinois Supreme Court ordered removed from the April 6 ballot late Friday, talks with resident Vikki Razzle on Saturday at the villages Center for Senior Citizens. Barbara Vitello | Staff Photographer Edward Pope, candidate for Glendale Heights village president, was ordered to be removed from the April 6 ballot by the ...

Illinois high court removes Glendale Heights president from April 6 ballot   Glendale Heights incumbent Mayor Linda Jackson, right, whose name the Illinois Supreme Court ordered removed from the April 6 ballot Friday, talks with resident Vikki Razzle Saturday at a village board coffee at the villages Center for Senior Citizens. Barbara Vitello | Staff Photographer   Linda Jackson, Glendale Heights five-term mayor running for reelection on April 6, talks with trustee Chester Po...

This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Republican lawmakers in both the Senate and House made a lot of hires to their offices. A former top Trump White House staffer lands a job on a Fox daytime program. Advocacy groups and lobbying firms are also hiring former congressional staffers. Its Washington, so of course, people are always moving around for new gigs. This week, Fox News landed a high-level...

PREMIUM! A GSK employee at work on a production line at the factory of British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline in Wavre where the Covid-19 CureVac vaccine will be produced. Picture: Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP Can South Africa use activism to fight for affordable and accessible Covid-19 vaccines and treatments like it fought for HIV/Aids treatment over a decade ago? According to two analysts with very opposing views on how this fight can be won, this is exactly what is needed. Economist Pa...

Appellate court puts Glendale Heights candidate back on ballot   Updated 3/9/2021 5:28 PM Glendale Heights voters will have a choice of four people to be the next village president after all. The Illinois 2nd District Appellate Court ruled Monday that Chodri Khokhar should be put back on the April 6 ballot.   In January, the villages electoral board considered a residents challenge to the election petitions Khokhar submitted. The challenger, Matthew Corbin, argued Khokhar did not ha...

Since it was published, the 2021 Budget has been called out as unconstitutional and austere from many corners. More than 200 social movements, civil society organisations, trade unions and individuals, in an open letter to members of Parliament, have endorsed a call for MPs to reject the Budget and send it back to the drawing board. The current Budget will cut public spending by R265-billion over the next three years in areas which directly affect human rights. The signatories of the open lette...