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CHICAGO (CBS) — It’s been nearly two weeks since record-breaking storms ravaged Chicago, and many residents of the city’s West Side are still cleaning up the floodwaters. CBS 2’s Noel Brennan met a family who really can’t put a price on what they lost. His house was once filled with at least 3 feet of water. The water is gone, but work continues every day as they sort through flooded properties. In one afternoon the water took away what the family took a decade to create. In her mind, it doesn’t make much sense to try to dry out something…

“Life and health can never be exchanged for other benefits within society.” — Founding principle of Sweden’s 1997 Vision Zero transport plan Without explicitly blaming, a relatively new approach to transportation management being advanced in Northwest Arkansas essentially points to historic road and highway design priorities and declares them not good enough. Since the advent of the mass-produced automobile, communities have mostly designed their streets and highways with one simple goal: to get motorists from point A to point B as quickly as possible, with reasonable accommodations for to security that made financial sense. In other words, the security measures…

EUSTIS, Fla. – An Eustis police officer shot a man accused of touching a woman and then drove to a different officer responding to the scene, Eustis police said. Police said a woman reported Tuesday that an unknown man came up behind her as she was walking near Morningview Drive and groped her, knocked her to the ground and then fled. Police said Wednesday they believe the suspect, who they are still searching for, may be behind two other similar attacks. >>> STREAM CHANNEL 9 LIVE EYEWITNESS NEWS

Hi, I’m Aaricka! If you like this article, you’ll love my daily morning newsletter, How To LA. Every day of the week, you’ll get new, community-driven stories that bring you up to speed with our local independent news. Days after the public launch of Twitter rival Threads, Meta executive Adam Mosseri it was surprisingly transparent on the company’s distaste for the media: Meta will do nothing to encourage hard news and politics on the platform, he wrote. Amid Twitter’s turmoil under Elon Musk, more than 100 million people have rushed to join Threads, making it the fastest-adopted app in history….

Mayor-elect Mike Johnston on Friday named political strategist Jenn Rider as his chief of staff as his full transition into office quickly approaches. A top political strategist both in Colorado and nationally, Ridder will play a key role in managing the operations of the mayor’s office, coordinating the city’s agendas and advancing the Johnston’s schedule, according to a statement from Vibrant Denver. She is also a Denver native with experience in Colorado and national politics. Ridder graduated from East High School and has skied all 33 ski mountains in Colorado. In 2018, Ridder served as campaign manager for Jared Polis’…

In the land of his main Republican rival and in his adopted state, former President Donald J. Trump told a conservative gathering in Florida on Saturday night that it was pointless for Gov. Ron DeSantis to continue to fight him for the party’s presidential nomination. In a prime-time speech at the Turning Point Action Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida, Mr. Trump claimed his lead in the polls over Mr. DeSantis and all the other Republican candidates were insurmountable, suggesting that the Florida governor should resign for the good of the party. Mr. Trump, who leads Mr. DeSantis for approximately…

It is the eternal debate: is the glass half empty or half full? Within my own overactive and restless mind, this dialogue is robust and endless. Over the long years, I have tended to be an optimist. I wake up most mornings looking forward to a good day. My inherent inclination is to think that most problems will solve themselves. However, in recent years, the inner pessimist has grown stronger. This voice increasingly gives the optimist a run for his money. Whether you view this depressed instinct as poisonous or simply cautious and cautious, it has grown stronger and stronger…

The coalition opposing the No Labels effort — which already includes Third Way, the progressive group MoveOn.org, the Democratic opposition research firm American Bridge and the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, made up of consultants Republicans—will be joined next week by a bipartisan coalition. headed by Richard A. Gephardt, a former House Democratic leader. For No Labels’ most ardent opponents, the group’s high-profile rhetoric and appeals to centrism mask a secret agenda to return Republicans to the White House. They point to a number of No Labels donors, including Woody Hunt, senior chairman of the Hunt Companies, John Catsimatidis, head of Gristedes…