Some Red State/Blue State Indicia
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acesfull86
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Tapate50
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Illinois loses track of 240 electronic monitored criminals including 34 murder suspects
Impressive stuff but why are these people out anyway ?
Approximately 8% of defendants on electronic monitoring (EM) in Cook County, Illinois—totaling over 200 people—are currently considered AWOL with their locations unknown. Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach confirmed that as of May 2026, these individuals have violated their monitoring terms, often by letting their devices die or removing them, and are actively being sought by law enforcement.Key Details on the Crisis:Scale of Issue: Over 3,000 people are monitored; roughly 243 are missing.Violent Offenders Involved: The tracking data includes individuals charged with murder, attempted murder, and criminal sexual assault.
Impressive stuff but why are these people out anyway ?
Approximately 8% of defendants on electronic monitoring (EM) in Cook County, Illinois—totaling over 200 people—are currently considered AWOL with their locations unknown. Cook County Chief Judge Charles Beach confirmed that as of May 2026, these individuals have violated their monitoring terms, often by letting their devices die or removing them, and are actively being sought by law enforcement.Key Details on the Crisis:Scale of Issue: Over 3,000 people are monitored; roughly 243 are missing.Violent Offenders Involved: The tracking data includes individuals charged with murder, attempted murder, and criminal sexual assault.
Tapate50
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ANDD… another blue state getting popped for fraud
Maine organization reportedly took money for autism and interpreting services that never happened. Almost 50m
When will blue voters have enough ?
Shouldn’t people be outraged this money wasn’t given to its intended users ?
Maine organization reportedly took money for autism and interpreting services that never happened. Almost 50m
When will blue voters have enough ?
Shouldn’t people be outraged this money wasn’t given to its intended users ?
sturg33
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Got in on this one privately at $15 a share... in a lockup for 6 months but I'll be celebrating this one bigly
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
Congrats!
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
MIAMI—Miami is booming, with waves of wealthy people drawn to the metro area in recent years. Yet there is a countercurrent: Its population is shrinking.
The result is a glittering urban center that is richer, smaller and built to cater to upscale living. Gone are the gritty warehouse districts, the nocturnal desolation of downtown and the shabby chic of South Beach. It is now a sophisticated, cosmopolitan hub with gleaming Cartier boutiques, avant-garde art installations and luxury districts dotted with Michelin-star restaurants.
The new economic order is squeezing out the middle. The growing ranks of the affluent fuel the area’s economy with avid consumption and fuller tax coffers. At the lower end are the retail, hospitality and construction workers who service them but are finding it increasingly difficult to stay. While the city of Miami itself continues to grow slowly, the broader county population is declining.
“Miami is becoming very different,” said Richard Florida, an urbanist and author who lives part of the year in Miami Beach. “We have never witnessed this kind of relocation of wealth,” he said, but “it’s getting harder and harder for the young professional to enter.”
People moving to Miami-Dade County from other states had on average $178,000 in adjusted gross income, more than double that of people who left the county for other states, according to an analysis of 2022-23 Internal Revenue Service data by Maria Ilcheva, associate director of the Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center at Florida International University.
For years, Miami-Dade County has been losing growing numbers of people through net migration to other states. In 2025, the rate of people leaving metro Miami for other places in the U.S. was higher than that of any other large metro area, according to an analysis published last month by Jed Kolko, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “Miami is the new San Francisco—at least in the sense that housing affordability is pushing people out,” he wrote.
Californians will recognize this pattern. It reflects success. But is also a problem.
The result is a glittering urban center that is richer, smaller and built to cater to upscale living. Gone are the gritty warehouse districts, the nocturnal desolation of downtown and the shabby chic of South Beach. It is now a sophisticated, cosmopolitan hub with gleaming Cartier boutiques, avant-garde art installations and luxury districts dotted with Michelin-star restaurants.
The new economic order is squeezing out the middle. The growing ranks of the affluent fuel the area’s economy with avid consumption and fuller tax coffers. At the lower end are the retail, hospitality and construction workers who service them but are finding it increasingly difficult to stay. While the city of Miami itself continues to grow slowly, the broader county population is declining.
“Miami is becoming very different,” said Richard Florida, an urbanist and author who lives part of the year in Miami Beach. “We have never witnessed this kind of relocation of wealth,” he said, but “it’s getting harder and harder for the young professional to enter.”
People moving to Miami-Dade County from other states had on average $178,000 in adjusted gross income, more than double that of people who left the county for other states, according to an analysis of 2022-23 Internal Revenue Service data by Maria Ilcheva, associate director of the Jorge M. Pérez Metropolitan Center at Florida International University.
For years, Miami-Dade County has been losing growing numbers of people through net migration to other states. In 2025, the rate of people leaving metro Miami for other places in the U.S. was higher than that of any other large metro area, according to an analysis published last month by Jed Kolko, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “Miami is the new San Francisco—at least in the sense that housing affordability is pushing people out,” he wrote.
Californians will recognize this pattern. It reflects success. But is also a problem.