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Holyoke city councilor hired as aide to new state Rep. Patricia Duffy Updated Dec 16, 2020; Facebook Share HOLYOKE — State Rep.-elect Patricia Duffy has hired Ward 6 City Councilor Juan C. Anderson-Burgos as her legislative aide. Duffy said Anderson-Burgos brings bilingual skills to the position, offering the office a critical link to Holyoke’s Latino population. She defeated Ward 3 City Councilor David Bartley and Pat Beaudry in the September primary. Duffy, who served on several city bo...

How about Will Davis? “greased by the old white guys” Not a lot of gray area in that comment. It will definitely be a woman. Or a man. Most likely an African American, unless it’s someone else. Guessing the next Speaker is going to be a tiring parlour game over the next few weeks. Madigan will remain Speaker until a successor is “elected and qualified”. “(25 ILCS 10/2) (from Ch. 63, par. 23.2) Sec. 2. The Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate, and the Chairman and...

Light and joy: Ridgefield temple lights menorah Macklin Reid FacebookTwitterEmail Hanukkah is being celebrated — though a little differently this year — by Ridgefield-based Congregation Shir Shalom. “We are trying to spread some light and joy at a dark time!” said Rabbi David Reiner. The eight-day celebration began at sundown Thursday, Dec. 10, Congregation Shir Shalom has been hosting nightly community menorah lightings, online. It also has a “menorah mobile” that has been visiting...

/ State Rep.-elect Chad Perkins, R-Bowling Green State Rep.-elect Chad Perkins joined St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum on the latest episode of Politically Speaking to talk about his election to the Missouri House and northeast Missouri’s political metamorphosis. The Bowling Green Republican will represent Missouri’s 40th District, which takes in portions of Pike, Ralls, Monroe and Lincoln counties. He is succeeding state Rep. Jim Hansen, a Frankford Republican who was barred from...

Seventeen states, led by Missouri, filed documents with the Supreme Court on Wednesday in support of a lawsuit by Texas against a handful of battleground states over alleged violations of election laws. Joe Biden: The Springfield News-Leader wrote a whole article about Joe Biden and how his shelter dogs will be great for Missouri. Joe Biden mispronounced the name of his nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Tuesday in the latest flub.

Im be back new years eve for the big party, in the meantime lets go to washington. "the lead" with jake tapper starts now. impeachment has reached an impasse. "the lead" starts right now. president trump wants a trial right away but speaker pelosi wants to make sure it is fair. who will blink in the standoff over the senate impeachment trial. piling on. mayor pete, democrats clash over a wine cave in the last debate of the year. what has the candidate seeing red as they approach the iowa cau...

As long you talk to them. when you embarrass the people that vote for you, that is a different game. and i think what happened over time, it was getting harder and harder, and im not talking about the policy issues, even impeachment necessarily, it was when you attack people, using the power of the presidency to attack individuals so viciously and personally over time that is just not what christians will accept as good behavior. and i think that loss of that -- he didnt grow into the office. he...

Also im a survivor of gun violence. my dad took his life with the gun ten years ago. he was a farmer, he was a vietnam vet. i spent 15 years at madd and what madd taught me, when people work together, change homes. so many of these tragedies are 100% preventable every single time. so i feel like we are making progress, we have to have a president and a well that makes this the number one priority and not say words but not doing about it. so thought you mike for everything youve done in this issu...

React that exact same way. they would some people. we thats fine. people that i know say i go to support the president despite all of this nonsense. i understand what he stands for. you can attack me all you want. im going to go into that voting booth. if you know minneapolis, minneapolis is san francisco -- its portland, its ceilings. its left wing radical as you can get. the rest of the minnesota is trump country. what you saw outside of there was very predictable. this is, you know, par for t...

Press" film festival at afi kicked off this week. the subject was 21 documentaries that were part of the program this year. in one, "st. louis superman," follows an activist and former state rep in missouri. while he served he was known as superman to his constituents. he ran and served as a democrat in the republican majority missouri statehouse. here is a clip from the film. >> you aint five to what that? >> august. >> august what? >> 9th. >> august 9th. youre going to learn about august 9th r...