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Loretta Mester, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, said Thursday that she supported a series of rate hikes beginning in March. But she said the Fed should remain flexible: Faster rate hikes might be needed, she said, if inflation hasn’t begun to fade by mid-year, or more gradual increases if inflation is slowing.

“I’m not the type of player to look too much into the future,” he said. “I want to be here, present now, because obviously that’s what’s most important. But we never know what the future holds, so I think I’m just going to continue to give my all every single day in training, making sure that I’m helping guys on and off the field to have the most successful season that we can for this club.”

During icy Midwest winters, a Chicagoan’s step onto the sidewalk is often met with a familiar crunch underfoot. But salt, used to keep roads safe for driving and sidewalks safe for walking, comes with an ecological price: It ends up in our water, and once it’s there, it’s almost impossible to remove. As levels of chlorides continue to rise in Lake Michigan and exceed state limits in Chicago-area waterways, municipalities across the region are grappling with the urgent need to reduce the use of road salt in winter.

John Kronenberger, outside of Major Hector P. Garcia M.D. High School, where Kronenberger had been mistakenly ticketed for speeding on Nov. 12. The city of Chicago sent out speeding tickets from cameras near the school on that date, even though school was not in session because of a citywide push to encourage students to get vaccinated. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)

“What we’ve done up to this point in time, in my opinion, is just not good enough,” Donovan said. “I’m not trying to be negative, it’s just we’ve got to get better. … We were dealing with a lot. I thought the guys did a really really good job settling the ship, so to speak, with a lot of turbulence. But the reality is what we’ve done up to this point in time in terms of going forward — where we want to be, the kind of team that we want to be — we’ve got to get better. It’s not good enough right now.”