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Under the timeline for the currently scheduled March 15, 2022 primary, candidates could begin circulating their nominating petitions to appear on the ballot at the end of August, with filing set to begin on Nov. 22. If lawmakers don’t approve a congressional map until sometime in the fall, as expected, that would leave little time to qualify for the ballot under the current timetable.

“I was not given the opportunity to defend myself. I was not given the opportunity to know who this person was that was allegedly offended. I don’t even know her,” he wrote. “I never had any kind of relationship or approach with this person. I didn’t even have a chance to talk to her, to know the real reasons for her pain. That person, an employee, was not protected. I, a sponsored athlete, was not protected.”

“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” came with us everywhere: To the pediatrician’s office, in case it took awhile. To restaurants, to ease the wait for our food. On road trips to see our Ohio family. On plane trips to see our Maryland family. At naptime, at bedtime, first thing in the morning, in the middle of the day, in the middle of a park, in the middle of a meltdown, always, that caterpillar and its endless appetite joined us.

On police body-camera footage released by COPA of the Alvarez shooting, officers can be seen running down an alley first, then bearing down on Alvarez as they turn a corner onto a small lawn. Third-party camera footage from a security camera from the home Alvarez was shot in front of shows him release a gun as he falls to the ground, and police have said a gun was found at the scene.

“The White Sox identity — black and white, gothic script and pinstripes — is so strong that it has resonated beyond the game of baseball,” said Wil Green, a Nike senior creative director, in a statement. “Their uniforms speak to the strength and hardworking nature of the Southside of Chicago — without saying a word. We wanted to harness the Southside’s personality for the Nike MLB City Connect Series and introduce its attitude to newer, younger fans.”

In the video, calves are stomped in the head, kicked, dragged by the tail and ears, hit in the face with plastic milk bottles, thrown out of the back of trucks and into pens, and generally brutalized. Five workers in the video were identified as participating in the alleged abuse. Four employees were fired and a truck driver who worked for a third-party vendor was banned from the farm. Criminal charges were filed against at least three of the workers.