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Much has been made of a new progressive era in Illinois politics, and a series of recent public remarks by elected Chicago officials formed a triptych of the promise and the problems of being a progressive leader at this time in Illinois."The vanguard for progressive policy all over this country" is what Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson called Illinois before a joint session of the state legislature last week.

Here are five takeaways from Wednesday's hearing:
Starbucks isn't budging
Schultz may no longer be holding the reins, but he made clear he does not believe the company has done anything illegal in its effort to quell a unionization drive that gained steam in 2021 and rippled across hundreds of Starbucks stores in 2022.

House Republicans passed a bill on Friday that would open schools up a wave of far right book bans.From left, House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Julia Letlow conduct a discussion with parents and children on the Parents Bill of Rights Act, in the U.S. Capitol on March 1, 2023.

While everyone else was out enjoying the first signs of spring this week, I stayed in bed watching "Wife Swap," "My 600-Lb.Life" and "Everybody Hates Chris" to check out what the ads are like on Hulu.The verdict?Hulu's ad experience is a mixed bag.Based on my two-day binge, Hulu seems to have a pretty good handle on its frequency capping.

Here's today's AdExchanger.comnews round-up... Want it by email?Sign up Network To Get Work here.Being called an "ad network" is a major slur for ad tech companies.It implies arbitrage and obfuscation.The Trade Desk and Google butted heads in 2019 over the designation of Google's exchange bidding (now called Open Bidding) as a network intermediary (which it is, to be fair) when Google sold those impressions through direct publisher integrations.

The political party of Myanmar's imprisoned opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has been officially dissolved, in yet another blow to the Southeast Asian nation's democracy, two years after the military staged a coup.The party, the National League for Democracy, was disbanded by Myanmar's military-appointed election commission, state media said late Tuesday night.

Islington North MP and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is sitting as an independent (Image: PA Media) Islington MP Jeremy Corbyn is expected to be officially blocked from standing as a Labour candidate at the next general election tomorrow (March 28).Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will propose a motion at a meeting of the party's ruling body, The National Executive Committee (NEC), that states it will not endorse Mr Corbyn as a candidate at the election.

Scotland's outgoing First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said Humza Yousaf will be an outstanding successor as she congratulated him on his appointment as SNP leader.Mr Yousaf defeated the current Scottish Finance Secretary Kate Forbes and former community safety minister Ash Regan in what was the SNP's first leadership contest for almost 20 years.

Jeremy Corbyn has said Sir Keir Starmer has denigrated the democratic foundations of Labour by taking forward plans to block the former leader from standing for the party at the next general election.Sir Keir will on Tuesday propose a motion at a meeting of Labour's ruling body that will make clear that the National Executive Committee (NEC) will not endorse Mr Corbyn at the next election, expected in around 18 months' time.

Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California announced Sunday that he won't enter the competitive Democratic primary to fill retiring Sen. Dianne Feinstein's senate seat in the Golden State, electing to endorse Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee instead.I have concluded that despite a lot of enthusiasm from Bernie [Sanders'] folks, the best place, the most exciting place, action place, fit place, for me to serve as a progressive is in the House of Representatives, Khanna told CNN's Jake Tapper on State of the Union.

Having played his part in Women's Football Weekend in seeing his Manchester United team return to the top of the WSL, Marc Skinner will not be watching as Chelsea attempt to overtake his side again."I'm not nervous," he said, regarding Chelsea travelling to take on fellow WSL title challengers Manchester City tomorrow.

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It's always fun to beat Inter Milan.It's even better to beat Inter at the San Siro.It's the best when Juventus beat Inter at the San Siro and we get to bask in it for the next couple of weeks because there is an international break upon us for the first time in 2023.That is indeed the case as Juve followed up their advancement to the Europa League quarterfinals with one of their biggest wins of the season - both because of the opponent, the location as well as the fact that they moved even close to the top six in Serie A.
It was one heck of a way to finish up the March portion of the schedule as we now wait for Juventus' contingent of internationals to come back from their national team duty without any kind of injury or anything close to it.

Representative Ro Khanna of California said on Sunday that he would not run in an already crowded Democratic field seeking to succeed his state's senior senator, Dianne Feinstein, who is retiring at the end of her term.In deep-blue California, the winner of the Democratic primary is likely to join Alex Padilla in representing the state in the Senate.

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Explore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission




Explore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Amitoj Singh is CoinDesk's regulatory reporter covering India.

What happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears, judging by this spurious, somewhat cranky documentary by John Scheinfeld, is that the band faced the unforeseen consequences of its own bad decisions.In 1970, Blood, Sweat & Tears, the enormously popular nine-piece jazz-rock group, undertook a tour of Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland under the aegis of the U.S. State Department, inadvertently outraging the progressive, college-age fans whose enthusiasm had made the group such a stratospheric counterculture success.

The Tickets are currently on sale for DC Environmental Film Festival is screening documentaries about the planet and ecological issues until March 26.in-person and free virtual showings of 131 films.Some screenings are already sold out, such as documentaries about Ivy City and trash pollution in Ward 8, but you can still learn about the films online.

On Monday morning, Starbucks announced that interim CEO Howard Schultz was being replaced by Laxman Narasimhan, a move that had been in the works for months but came sooner than outside observers expected, and less than two weeks before Schultz's appearance at a high-profile Senate committee hearing, where he's expected to be grilled about the company's anti-union practices.

The South American Under-20 Championship in Colombia is almost over, with the final group-stage games finishing on Feb. 12 as the top two teams Brazil and Uruguay face off to be crowned winners.But with plenty of young stars in action, scouts have been busy keeping tabs on the next big talent to emerge from the continent.

After months of thefts that have led to at least eight deaths, car makers Hyundai and Kia are offering free software updates to roughly 8.3 million cars that can be stolen with the aid of a USB-A cable.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday that the manufacturers' updates make it so affected cars require a key to be in the ignition switch to start.

FOH®, a global leader in foodservice and hospitality solutions, has recently announced the official integration of both its brands: Front of the House® and room360®.As a single comprehensive solutions provider, FOH® has been established as the go-to design and manufacturing resource for all segments within the foodservice and hospitality industry.

Real Estate News The tally for Massachusetts alone is roughly $4.6 billion.Future flood risk isn't fully baked into US real estate values, and that means American homes in flood zones are collectively overvalued by as much as $237 billion, according to a new report.That poses pricey ramifications for New England communities.

Manchester United were the subject of an official bid of a minimum 4bn on Friday from Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani, the chairman of QIB, a Qatari bank.The offer comes with a promise to load no debt on the club and to redevelop the club's infrastructure.The bid from Sheikh al-Thani, via his Nine Two Foundation, came before Friday's 10pm soft deadline for all potential buyers to lodge their opening offers for the club.