Mayor Lightfoot Outlines Bleak Budget Forecast: $1.2 Billion Gap For 2021
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a “seismic disruption” of the city’s finances
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a “seismic disruption” of the city’s finances
The president is in Kenosha, Wis., today, a city that has been rocked by protests after police shot a black man several times in the back a little over a week ago. Despite some incidents of looting, crime appears to be on par with recent years and near a three-decade low. This episode: campaign correspondent Scott Detrow, campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, and White House correspondent Tamara Keith.Connect:Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here.Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.Join the NPR Politics Podcast Facebook Group.Listen to our playlist The NPR Politics Daily Workout.Subscribe to the NPR Politics Newsletter.Find and support your local public radio station.
An activist group, formed just nine days ago, is standing up against police brutality and racial injustice in their city.
Tobolski, who was also the former mayor of suburban McCook, says he took “multiple extortion and bribe payments” of more than $250,000 while “abusing” both elected positions.
The president is diving head-first into the latest eruption in the nation’s reckoning over racial injustice with a trip Tuesday — over the objections of local leaders — to the Wisconsin city.
Author Lisa Levenstein tells Nerdette the 1990s were a pivotal time in feminist history. “The biggest change was really a culture change.“
Kenosha has become the focal point for the movement over racial justice and police violence after the shooting of Jacob Blake last weekend.
Biden’s remarks come after several days of unrest in cities, including the shooting deaths of two protesters in Wisconsin, allegedly by an armed white vigilante, and a fatal shooting in Portland, Ore., where a man was killed during a night of confrontations between Trump supporters and racial justice demonstrators.Also, how activists at the March On Washington are talking about voting this election cycle.This episode: campaign correspondent Scott Detrow, political reporter Juana Summers, campaign correspondent Asma Khalid, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.Connect:Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here.Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.Join the NPR Politics Podcast Facebook Group.Listen to our playlist The NPR Politics Daily Workout.Subscribe to the NPR Politics Newsletter.Find and support your local public radio station.
Joe Biden forcefully pushes back against President Trump’s campaign message that voters wouldn’t be safe under a Biden administration.
The first-term mayor said it could take months or years to recover from the economic downturn caused by COVID-19.