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Chicago officials are closing in on plans to transform a budget motel along North Lincoln Avenue into a housing pilot that would provide on-site substance abuse and mental health treatment — part of the city’s long-term efforts to combat chronic homelessness by pairing temporary shelter with intensive health care. The City Council is slated to vote Wednesday on the $2.9 million purchase of the ...

Coming from, you because you are the chair of the democratic congressional campaign committee, and your job is to secure a democratic house majority in the next midterm election, and so how helpful was inflation data in that effort? >> it's very helpful, because it shows people the impact of the policies that we put in place. that smart policy has a long term impact. a lot of policy we put in place in the last congress, a historic congress in terms of what we were able to get done or actually having an impact right now, and we are going to see that impact continue forward to really bring a str...

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Teamsters are lauding Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and members of the state legislature for enacting cannabis legalization into law. "We...

It's interesting that the biden administration called out the chicago school system and pushing to keep questions in schools coming from a pro union administration. what does the fact that this happening say? ken? >> first of all, it's a smart policy for them to have. let' be honest, teachers unions aren't going to start voting republican in two years. so if they're not having a got of damage going against the unions. the new policy is we have to have a balance between life and we knew it and protecting ourselves and the balance is children need to be in school. most rational democrats think t...

Different tax proposals he wants to an out on day one. that smart policy. that's what he was talking about in those commercials. certainly this is a wake-up call to all of us that the economy will be the most critical issue heading into 2022 and we've got to be focus on that as we tackle the covid crisis, solve that crisis, put it back to about how to make the economy work for every economy coming out of this pandemic. >> i want to get a very quick comment from you, the infrastructure plan, what happens to them on capitol hill now? >> if they couldn't get past before, you didn't even see on yo...