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Sunday, August 23, 2026
Thursday, August 20, 2026
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Exclusive: Harry and Meghan plan move back to Britain
Duke intends to come home with his family this month and has enrolled children in school for September

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are planning to move back to Britain, The Telegraph can reveal.
The family intends to relocate from the US later this month to a private,
Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Navy Problems?

What’s Going on With Our Navy?
Today, let’s discuss aircraft carriers; namely, recent news accounts about poor food and living conditions aboard the long-deployed USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), as well as President Trump’s
Monday, August 17, 2026
Is this project about to collapse?
Debt-laden Bally’s future in ‘substantial doubt’ amid video gambling dispute over Chicago casino
While the company is on the hook for about $400 million in costs over the next two years to complete its permanent complex at 777 W. Chicago Ave., Bally’s still isn’t breaking even at its temporary casino at the historic Medinah Temple.

Bally’s Chicago celebrated placing the final structural beam of its new casino in River West on April 30.
Bally’s has acknowledged its massive debt creates “substantial doubt about its ability to continue” over the next year, when the company is supposed to open its long-delayed Chicago casino complex in River
Sunday, August 16, 2026
Pritzker is right. Bears Stadium saga is not the taxpayers problem. It's the Bears problem. They're locked into a lease that they negotiated.

Bears lease at Soldier Field runs through 2033. However, the team can break the agreement early by paying an early-termination fee, which is currently tabbed at $90 million. After 2033, who cares?
Saturday, August 15, 2026
Coming for your money....sooner than you think....the wealth tax

The DSA’s War on Wealth
Communism is on the rise in the United States and has now entered otherwise mainstream Democratic Party politics.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is on track to increase the number of its members in Congress from two to at least six in January, possibly more. That’s not including Sen. Bernie Sanders, who calls himself a democratic socialist.
A DSA member named Francesca Hong just came within striking distance of becoming the Democratic nominee for governor of Wisconsin, one of our largest and most important states. Hong was narrowly defeated in the Aug. 11 primary by
Monday, August 10, 2026
Mayor Johnson wants to spend it all!
The fund was included in then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s 2017 budget as a way to bridge the funding gap between Downtown and the rest of the city. But the fund never generated a penny of outside investments.

City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin wants to get rid of the Chicago Catalyst Fund as a way to help avert police and fire department layoffs.
City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin wants to disband a fund created a decade ago to jump-start development in South and West Side neighborhoods, and use the remaining $57 million to prevent the city’s midyear budget shortfall from triggering police and fire department layoffs.
