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Democrats Line Up To Support Assault Weapon Ban, Ignore Killer Poverty
KONKOL COLUMN: New push for assault weapon ban is election-season propaganda in Illinois, ignores wealth gap tied to persistent violence.
Mark Konkol, recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, wrote and produced the Peabody Award-winning series "Time: The Kalief Browder Story." He was a producer, writer and narrator for the "Chicagoland" docuseries on CNN and a consulting producer on the Showtime documentary "16 Shots."
KONKOL COLUMN: New push for assault weapon ban is election-season propaganda in Illinois, ignores wealth gap tied to persistent violence.
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KONKOL COLUMN: Gov. Pritzker's political grandstanding after Highland Park July 4 massacre is another example of "fakequity" in Illinois.
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KONKOL COLUMN: Miles said Pritzker was willing to make her "homeless and hungry" to run unopposed. Instead, she "exposed his weakness."
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KONKOL COLUMN: If Darren Bailey wins the GOP primary, his culture war attack will overshadow actual failures of Pritzker's administration.
Lightfoot's comments were in response to Justice Thomas' suggestion that overturning Roe v. Wade could be used to ban gay marriage.
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KONKOL COLUMN: Jackson holds stock in Blackstone Inc., a Trump-supporting firm accused of worsening America's affordable-housing crisis.