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I have heard that the new administration should have a honeymoon period. I would think the new mayor and City Council members want to hit the ground running. They should demand inclusion in what the …

DeSantis’s $142 million war chest could reflect an appetite among the GOP donor class for a Trump spoiler who’d be better positioned to capitalize on the public’s waning enthusiasm for another four years of President Joe Biden.

Surging consumer inflation may have been the catalyst, but the unfolding crisis has been decades in the making. Click here to read more.

Nora Eckert has previously worked with NPR, The Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and undergraduate degree from St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wis. She’s reported on national investigations into jail suicides, how climate change disproportionately affects the urban poor, the spread of coronavirus in nursing homes and the race for artificial blood. She joined the Post Bulletin team in January 2021 as their ...

Nora Eckert was part of the team that discovered a nursing home concealed the real number of people who died at the home due to COVID-19.

Nora Eckert was part of the team that discovered a nursing home concealed the real number of people who died at the home due to COVID-19.

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Takeaways from Eckerts reporting: Minnesota Department of Corrections prisons were poised for failure even before the pandemic struck. The prison population was nearing capacity, leaving little room for distancing or quarantine, and many facilities had poor ventilation. Still, the DOC failed to innovate. They decided not to add outdoor tents for quarantining inmates or correctional officers due to security concerns, even though prisons across the country found ways to do so. The department was ...

Today we highlight our investigation of Wisconsin’s struggle to contain COVID-19 in its prisons, where about 10,800 inmates have been infected — more than half of the population — and at least 25 have died.

And the results in swing states challenged by Trump are exactly in line with the national vote.