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Synopsis The meeting comes as Covid-19 vaccines are rolled out for the first time, bolstering optimism that the pandemic will ease in coming months. Congressional leaders also appear to be getting closer to agreeing on a fiscal relief package. Agencies By Joanna Ossinger The Federal Reserve’s decision on Wednesday is one of the last big events in one of the most turbulent years for markets. Strategists are waiting to see if the central bank links the future of asset purchases to measures of employment and inflation, or even takes action to alter the pace or composition of bond buying, for ...

Monday is what can be done to make it a festival of now and of the future and looking at the future generations of gay irish americans who want to be included in this festival of memory that is also a festival of what it will mean in the 21st century to be an irish american. >> jim, there's talk about sam adams boycotting the parade in boston. how big a deal is that? or is it just -- >> i think it was a pretty good p.r.coup for sam adams to stand with the mayor. very, very few politicians are choosing to march this year. you're seeing the institutional political support for the parade organize...

Wisconsin, where we are joint by this week in voter suppression frequent guest, scott ross, executive director of one wisconsin now. due to some technical difficulties scott joins us by phone this morning. scott, i know out there you guys like to call it the badger state, but it's starting to seem more like the honey badger state because with these new rules, absolutely no subtlety here, it's like the republican leadership doesn't give a you know what. >> absolutely, jonathan. thanks for having me today. jim crow is alive and well in the state of wisconsin, and scott walker is seeking to make ...

Right groups, it split them up and the internal politicking took it apart. >> jim, how big a deal is the parade? how important is it symbolically for these groups to march and for the organizers to keep them out? >> well, the parade is one of the signature events of boston's sort of storied political culture. it's preceded by a breakfast that's really a roast. that's the marquis annual event. so the idea that the symbolism that folks would be excluded is bothersome to a lot of people here. massachusetts, a lot of people in massachusetts take pride that it's been in the forefront of a lot of pr...

>> john, set the stage for us. >> this is a good news for a lot of republicans are saying around the country today. gabriel gomez won this election. democrats have shown in massachusetts they can muff it up there. scott brown is the best example of this. jim o'sullivan has a pretty good analysis on this this morning in "the boston globe." gomez looked like the appeal of scott brown. he is younger. handsome fellow. if anybody is going to catch democrats napping he looks like he is in pretty good position to do so. he has a hispanic background at a time when the democrats need hispanic faces to ...