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It's Not Just Illinois: Connecticut Faces Friday Day Of Reckoning

It's Not Just Illinois: Connecticut Faces Friday Day Of Reckoning

With Illinois facing a Friday night deadline by which it has to come up with its first fiscal budget in three years or face a downgrade to junk resulting in what a policymaker called a "death spiral", another mini drama is taking place in Connecticut, which is also facing big budget problems as wealthy residents, hedge funds and major corporations flee the state's high taxes and its fiscal future gets murkier by the day.

One Ohio Politician Has A Simple Solution To The Overdose Problem: Let Addicts Die

One Ohio Politician Has A Simple Solution To The Overdose Problem: Let Addicts Die

Across the country, opioids killed more than 33,000 people in 2015, more than any year on record, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

As we have noted numerous times, the epidemic is ravaging populations across racial and socioeconomic lines, according to The Post's Joel Achenbach and Dan Keating. Spurred by overdoses, the death rate for Americans rose 8 percent between 2010 and 2015.

CNN's Jim Acosta Fails Again - Totally Shut Down By ICE Director Over Illegal Immigration

CNN's Jim Acosta Fails Again - Totally Shut Down By ICE Director Over Illegal Immigration

Content originally published at iBankCoin.com

During Wednesday's White House press briefing, Tom Homan - Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Attorney John Huber were brought in to discuss two upcoming pieces of immigration legislation - only to face CNN's anchor-socked White House correspondent, Jim Acosta.

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