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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 village's 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 Pojack, center, and resident Mickey Jeneski Saturday at the village's Center for Seniors. On Friday,...

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. It's Washington, so of course, people are always moving around for new gigs. This week, Fox News landed a high-level alumni of the Trump White House briefing room. Over on Capitol Hill, Republican lawmakers added ne...

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 Patrick Bond has accused the government of partaking in the very bidding wars that are helping rich co...

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 village's electoral board considered a resident's challenge to the election petitions Khokhar submitted. The challenger, Matthew Corbin, argued Khokhar did not have enough signatures because, Corbin contended, some of the signatures were invalid. The board dis...

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 letter represent 1.5 million people, according to Section27, one of the signatories. The letter urges the...