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The 45-year-old Rodriguez hit 696 home runs over 22 major league seasons, with the New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners and Texas Rangers. His last season on the field was 2016, marking the end of marvelous career that was tainted by performance-enhancing drug use he later admitted to. Rodriguez was suspended for the entire 2014 season for violating MLB policy.
That prompted Republican state Rep. Deanne Mazzochi of Elmhurst to say, “To me, a good leader doesn’t assume things are happening. A good leader actually checks to make sure that things are happening. For you to just sit there and say, ‘Oh, well, I just assumed things were happening,’ that’s a failure of leadership. I’m sorry.”
Under the arrangement, the federal government has paid the county $117 million since 2003 to hold detainees while they await hearings in immigration court in Chicago. That revenue, which the sheriff’s office reported at $10 million in fiscal year 2019, dropped to $7 million in FY 2020, and was less than $1 million in the first quarter this year, as ICE held fewer immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Merritt said one person was taken in serious to critical condition to the University of Chicago Medical Center with wounds to the neck, leg and back. The second victim was shot in the abdomen and arm, and was pronounced dead at the same hospital, Chicago police said.
The pilot, 39-year-old Jason Bufton, took three female passengers, all of whom are from Wilmington, up in a “small, white Beechcraft airplane,” which landed on the southbound lanes of I-355 near Interstate 80 about 11:18 a.m., according to Master Sgt. Brian McKinney of the state police 15th District.
It’s a profession that, like many, has seen unparalleled hardships over the past 14 months, starting when COVID-19 caused an abrupt shutdown of schools. Though teaching music remotely to young children has had its particular challenges, Spears credits his colleagues, his students and their families with rising to the occasion, noting that being adaptable is one of the school’s core values. His students now either are still remote full-time or are in school two days a week.
“We had one order of Yerminator T-shirts sell out on the first homestand, and his jerseys go really fast,” Boyer said. “We’ve said a lot of guys’ body identify with Yermín, so those jerseys go. On top of it, he’s got a big, fun personality and just loves playing baseball. It’s good for baseball.”
Retaliation that would be prohibited includes firing, denying a promotion, issuing negative evaluations or assigning undesirable work schedules in direct response to getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Employees could not be required to use sick or vacation days to make up for missed work time, though they could request so if they wish, nor must they find a replacement for their shift, under the proposal.
So does Ald. Matt Martin, 47th, who told Freishtat that when, for instance, a two-flat is either demolished or converted into a single-family home, there’s less foot traffic in a neighborhood for local businesses, fewer students in schools and fewer affordable options in the area. Full story here.
Anderson led off the first inning with a solo home run off Michael Pineda, the 10th time he’s started the first with a homer and the second time in 2021. Lamb, playing first base while Jose Abreu started at designated hitter, hit a line drive in the third that skipped off the top of the right field fence and over for a homer to make it 2-0.