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FREEBURG Wood River running back Seth Slayden doesn't want to remember the first quarter from Friday's Cahokia Conference Mississippi Division football game against Freeburg.

Slayden's coach agreed though he did point out a pretty major silver lining.

"That first quarter is one I'd like to forget, defensively and offensively," Wood River coach Garry Herron said. "We did the same thing at Breese Central (earlier this season). We didn't show up for a half there. This time at least we showed up in the second quarter."

The next three quarters were much better for the Oilers.

Wood River, behind the strong running from Slayden and some key turnovers, punched its ticket into Illinois high school football playoffs with a 36-30 victory.

"We're working our butts off during the week to get the wins out here," Slayden said. "We struggled in the past, but we're here and we're ready."

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Wood River (6-1 overall, 3-1 Cahokia Mississippi) earned an automatic bid to the playoffs with its sixth win.

It's the first time the Oilers have been playoff eligible since 2018.

"It's something we've been working towards since the last time we were in the playoffs," Herron said. "This group clicked and has worked really hard. There's a reason why they're here. It's just an awesome feeling."

It's the first win for Wood River over Freeburg in its last five tries.

Slayden helped lead the way by carrying the ball 28 times for a career-high 256 yards and two touchdowns.

"He has great vision and follows his blockers," Herron said. "He's everything you want in a back. He has a lot of fight in him."

Slayden had two long carries for 30 or more yards, and the last one all but sealed the game a 52-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter.

"Every long run I'm free, I think someone's right on my tail," Slayden said. "You're hoping that you can speed it up and get to the end zone."

As good as Slayden was picking his way through traffic, he was the first one to give thanks to the big line up front for opening up holes all night long.

"They're right there by my side. The line makes it for us," Slayden.

Slayden is just the fifth runner in the area to break the 1,000-yard barrier this season.

Early on, Freeburg (3-4, 0-4 Cahokia) had Wood River's offense contained.

The Oilers got a little tricky to break free.

In the first quarter, Slayden took a handoff on a fourth-down play and drifted to his right before firing a pass to a wide-open Jakob Gerber in the back of the end zone to get the Oilers on the scoreboard.

That was just the second pass completion ever for the senior and the first touchdown pass of his career.

"We tried in a few games, but it wasn't successful until tonight," Slayden said. "It just happened to work out, but we needed to score that drive."

After averaging 10 points a game the last three weeks, Freeburg's offense found some room to work against Wood River.

The Midgets rolled up nearly 400 yards of offense with senior quarterback AJ Banks going 21 for 30 for 284 yards through the air.

"AJ made great plays all night long and our kids didn't give up," Freeburg coach Ron Stuart said.

Trailing 30-23 in the fourth quarter, Freeburg was driving with less than eight minutes left in regulation before Wood River senior Chris Fitzgerald stepped in front of a pass for an interception.

"He has a dislocated finger on one hand and is hurt on the other," Herron said. "I don't know how he caught it, but we'll take it."

It was the third turnover on the night for Freeburg.

"We turned the ball over and defensively we let up some big plays and got hit with penalties," Stuart said. "That's something we've been dealing with and in the last four weeks against good teams you have to play a perfect game to give yourself a chance to win."

It's the first time since 2017 that the Midgets have gone through a four-game losing streak, but Stuart saw a silver lining for his team with two games remaining on the season.

"Play like you did tonight and that gives us an opportunity to win the next two ball games," Stuart said. "That's the team we've been looking for the last two weeks."

Wood River's Seth Slayden (22) runs with the ball during a football game on Friday, October 7, 2022 at Freeburg High School in Freeburg, Ill. Paul Halfacre, STLhighschoolsports.com

Wood River's Seth Slayden (22) runs with the ball during a football game on Friday, October 7, 2022 at Freeburg High School in Freeburg, Ill. Paul Halfacre, STLhighschoolsports.com

Wood River's Miguel Romero (5) runs with the ball during a football game on Friday, October 7, 2022 at Freeburg High School in Freeburg, Ill. Paul Halfacre, STLhighschoolsports.com

Wood River's Chris Fitzgerald runs back to his sideline after an interception during a football game on Friday, October 7, 2022 at Freeburg High School in Freeburg, Ill. Paul Halfacre, STLhighschoolsports.com

Wood River's Jamari Nunn (75) celebrates with his team after a football game on Friday, October 7, 2022 at Freeburg High School in Freeburg, Ill. Paul Halfacre, STLhighschoolsports.com

Freeburg's Cole Stuart (1) makes the catch over Wood River's Jakob Gerber (17) during a football game on Friday, October 7, 2022 at Freeburg High School in Freeburg, Ill. Paul Halfacre, STLhighschoolsports.com

Freeburg's Tucker Murphy (43) runs with the ball during a football game on Friday, October 7, 2022 at Freeburg High School in Freeburg, Ill. Paul Halfacre, STLhighschoolsports.com

Freeburg's Landon Townley (82) runs with the ball during a football game on Friday, October 7, 2022 at Freeburg High School in Freeburg, Ill. Paul Halfacre, STLhighschoolsports.com

Wood River's Seth Slayden (22) dives for the pylon during a football game on Friday, October 7, 2022 at Freeburg High School in Freeburg, Ill. Paul Halfacre, STLhighschoolsports.com

Freeburg's Tucker Murphy (43) runs with the ball during a football game on Friday, October 7, 2022 at Freeburg High School in Freeburg, Ill. Paul Halfacre, STLhighschoolsports.com

Freeburg's AJ Banks (9) runs with the ball during a football game on Friday, October 7, 2022 at Freeburg High School in Freeburg, Ill. Paul Halfacre, STLhighschoolsports.com

Wood River's Seth Slayden (22) runs with the ball during a football game on Friday, October 7, 2022 at Freeburg High School in Freeburg, Ill. Paul Halfacre, STLhighschoolsports.com

Wood River's Brayden St. Peters (24) runs with the ball during a football game on Friday, October 7, 2022 at Freeburg High School in Freeburg, Ill. Paul Halfacre, STLhighschoolsports.com

Wood River's Miguel Romero (5) looks over the defense during a football game on Friday, October 7, 2022 at Freeburg High School in Freeburg, Ill. Paul Halfacre, STLhighschoolsports.com

Wood River's Seth Slayden (22) makes the stop on Freeburg's Caleb Loftus (27) during a football game on Friday, October 7, 2022 at Freeburg High School in Freeburg, Ill. Paul Halfacre, STLhighschoolsports.com

Wood River's Seth Slayden (22) runs with the ball during a football game on Friday, October 7, 2022 at Freeburg High School in Freeburg, Ill. Paul Halfacre, STLhighschoolsports.com

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They are being called the heroes of Tonya Court and Wisconsin Street. As water rushed down their streets and into homes during Hurricane Ian, three men on paddleboards and a personal watercraft rescued more than a dozen people along with dogs, cats, rabbits and even a horse.

They say they dont feel like heroes, yet with downed power lines, they took big risks to paddle through the water knocking on doors and windows where they found people standing on countertops and tables to avoid the rapidly rising water.

I felt like it was something I had to do, Sammy Sosa said. I could not sit there knowing people could possibly drown.

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Sosa and his neighbor, Scott Sopher, grabbed two yellow and white paddleboards from a neighbors yard and began the quest of helping people. A block away Jules De Ron hopped on his personal watercraft to help.

It felt good that we were helping people, Sopher said. I didnt feel like a hero. I just did it.

Sosa said in some places the water was up to his neck and the winds were blowing at about 100 miles per hour. He had to paddle around fallen trees and falling tree limbs.

There was no emergency response and no one else was crazy enough to go out there, Sosa said. I just kept going until I got to every single house. I kept going from house to house banging on every door and window. If there was someone in there, I got them out.

At one house Sopher and Sosa had to make several trips to rescue two people, two dogs, two cats and a rabbit. Sosa paddled down to a barn at the very end of Wisconsin Street to open the doors and rescue a horse.

I was holding on to the horses neck and trying to get the barn door open, Sosa described. When we got him out, we walked him to the fire department.

The people that were rescued were taken to homes on dry land further down on Wisconsin Street.

The water came up so fast, Sopher said. We knew people were stuck in their houses so we grabbed the paddleboards and went. It was one of the craziest things Ive seen.

Paul Byrne stood on his kitchen table on Tonya Court as the water rose. When the water got higher than the four-foot-tall table, he put a milk crate on top of that and stood there. Byrne says he does not know how to swim, so it was scary.

The water came in very quickly, Byrne described. I had spent quite a bit of time getting my precious documents high and by the time that was done it was too high to get out. It was just all a big lake.

From his perch on the crate, Byrne saw the men with the paddleboards rescue his neighbors on both sides, before coming to his house.

Im not much of a swimmer, so he paddled in and took me on the board to the high house, Bryne said. I was elated.

Deanna and Jeff Martin were on their kitchen counter next door when the men came to rescue them.

The power lines came down in the backyard and there were sparks, Deanna Martin described. We wanted to keep out of the water because of all the sparks. When the power went off, we swam out.

Martin said they put some of their personal items on the paddleboard and hung on as they were towed to safety.

I swam to the other side of the driveway and then grabbed onto the surfboard and got out of here, Jeff Martin described.

Jules De Ron met Sosa and Sopher and teamed up to help pull the victims to safety. De Ron began his quest by simply helping one neighbor.

Once we were out there, I went to see if anybody else needed help, he said. It was nothing special. I was just out there.

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"We know what happened in 2020," said state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, a Republican from Menomonee Falls.

"Powerful and rich forces are aligned against me," said Michael Gableman, a former state Supreme Court Justice.

"Was it rigged? Was it fixed? I'm going to stop it!" said Tim Michels, the 2022 Republican nominee for governor.

Republicans in Wisconsin have been amplifying Donald Trump's debunked election conspiracy theories for nearly two years.

Rachel Rodriguez has heard them all.

"There is absolutely no glamor in elections," said Rodriguez, an elections specialist in the Dane County Clerk's Office. "Every time you think you have put one conspiracy theory to bed, it seems like another different one just pops up in its place."

An elections specialist in the Dane County Clerk's Office, Rachel Rodriguez describes the difficulty of responding to an ongoing stream of misinformation and conspiracy theories about voting in Wisconsin in an interview on Aug. 24, 2022. (Credit: PBS Wisconsin)

She knows every step of the process, so when Republicans in the Legislature started holding invitation-only hearings to give an official platform to election conspiracy theorists, she followed them closely.

"It was readily apparent that within minutes that the experts that they were trotting out had absolutely no expertise in actual elections," said Rodriguez.

She started fact-checking the hearings over Twitter.

Soon, Rodriguez was being retweeted by the chair of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, and gained an audience looking for the truth.

"I think people were really looking for that other side of it the actual expert side because that wasn't happening at the hearings," she said.

Republicans hired the former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman to lead an investigation on the 2020 election, but what he produced was open records violations, a contempt of court order and a million-dollar bill for taxpayers.

Michael Gableman, the former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who was hired by the Republican-controlled state Legislature to probe the 2020 election, declares he won't answer any questions while seated in a witness box during a June 10, 2022 hearing in Dane County Court over an open records lawsuit. (Credit: PBS Wisconsin)

Gableman was fired after endorsing the primary opponent of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the man who hired him.

"Mike Gableman is an embarrassment to the state," said Vos.

Rodriguez said the cumulative effect was the truth around election conspiracies started to look like partisan politics.

"Where the problem is right now is that when you have one party and it is one party who is driving all of this misinformation and all of the conspiracies and all of the doubt when you take the side of actual facts and truth, which is opposite to that, it's going to look like it's one party over the other," she said.

"I'm going to get rid of the Wisconsin Elections Commission," declared Michels at an Aug. 5 rally in Waukesha where he appeared with the former president.

Michels is the Republican candidate for governor, and while he doesn't outright say the 2020 election was stolen, he does campaign with those that do. Michels even saluted Republican state Rep. Tim Ramthun, a full-on election conspiracist who wanted to somehow "reclaim" Wisconsin's 2020 electoral votes.

"I see my friend out here, ran a spirited primary Tim Ramthun was very big on election integrity as well," Michels said at a Sept. 18 rally in Green Bay with Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

At one event, Michels told a supporter in order to win, he had to overcome a cheating percentage.

Tim Michels, the Republican nominee for governor in the 2022 election, speaks at the Chicken Burn, a conservative rally held in Wauwatosa on Aug. 28, 2022. (Credit: PBS Wisconsin)

"What's the cheating percentage? It's probably a point or two. I think we're going to come out ahead," said Michels at the Chicken Burn, an annual conservative gathering in Wauwatosa held on Aug. 28.

Tim Michels did not agree to an interview for this story.

"For people to continue harboring that 'Big Lie' that's not good for democracy. It's not good for democracy at all," said Wisconsin's Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.

Evers vetoed a series of Republican bills that would have changed how elections are run in Wisconsin.

"Senate Bill 292: not approved there we go, folks," said Evers while delivering his veto message for SB 292 on Aug. 10, 2021.

During a ceremony in the Wisconsin state Capitol's rotunda on Aug. 10, 2021, Gov. Tony Evers vetoes SB 292, which related to broadcasting election night proceedings. (Credit: PBS Wisconsin)

Michels has said he would sign those bills, and Democrats fear as governor, Michels could overturn Wisconsin's presidential electoral votes in 2024.

"If they are in power and Trump comes calling asking them to change an election result, we've seen that they're willing to do anything to get Trump's approval," said Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

"This is a very serious moment in the history of our country, and it's hard to think of words that would be too strong to express the stakes in this fall's election," added Wikler.

"You know, when you look at it, election integrity has been a great topic for everybody to get some fodder both ways," said Paul Farrow, chair of the Republican Party of Wisconsin.

"When I look back at the 2020 election, there are some challenges. We know there are issues that are there that we have to figure out how to regulate and how to make sure it doesn't happen again," added Farrow.

"How can you lead the state if you're afraid to tell the base of our party the truth? asked Rohn Bishop, former chair of the Republican Party of Fond du Lac County.

Bishop is concerned the GOP's obsession with 2020 will hurt them in 2022.

"Republicans should be looking at a tidal wave election. The one way to screw it up is to keep focusing on 2020. And we keep doing that. We just can't turn the page and focus on 2022," he said.

Bishop was attacked by his own party members for pointing out Trump lost in Wisconsin because enough Republicans voted, but not for Trump.

"The election's not stolen when Glenn Grothman's getting more votes than Donald Trump in the 6th Congressional District," said Bishop. "There was just a falloff. There were people who wanted to vote for Republican conservative principles, but not Trump."

Rohn Bishop, the former chair of the Republican Party of Fond du Lac County and the mayor of Waupun, says fellow Republicans are too focused on the 2020 presidential vote and ostracize those who don't subscribe to conspiracy theories about it. (Credit: PBS Wisconsin)

Bishop said when Michels campaigns with Gableman and Trump, he risks alienating those same voters.

"Coming into 2022, Tim Michaels has to figure out how to get those 50,000 Republicans who voted Republican but not for Donald Trump," said Bishop.

Since the 2020 election, Bishop left party politics and in April 2022 was elected mayor of Waupun, a non-partisan office.

"I just really want to focus on this job and give it all that I have," said Bishop.

He's still a Republican, but worries others might have left the party for good.

"Because of the hyper-partisan nature of it and the negativity, we're busy trying to always kick people out. That's a term that they use in our party of the RINO: Republican in Name Only. I've been called that by people because I didn't think the election was stolen. Well, if you kick me out and I don't vote for you, you're in a lot of trouble," said Bishop.

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Waukesha on Aug. 5, 2022, with Republican candidate for governor Tim Michels, former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman and state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, R-Menomonee Falls also giving speeches. (Credit: PBS Wisconsin)

So what impact will these conspiracy theories have on the 2022 election?

For one, there will be a lot more people in the room when voters cast their ballots.

Paul Farrow said in 2020, Republicans had about 1,300 election observers at the polls statewide.

"We are well over 5,000 this time around," he said about the party's 2022 plans. "We've got a lot more eyes that are watching the process."

People like Christopher Bossert, a Republican from West Bend: "I had concerns about election integrity. And the best way to resolve those concerns one way or the other is to get involved. So I chose to volunteer for the Republican Party as a poll worker."

Christopher Bossert, a member of the Washington County Board of Supervisors and resident of West Bend, is a Republican who is volunteering as a poll worker to help assuage his concerns about election practices. (Credit: PBS Wisconsin)

Bossert said he still has concerns about voter fraud elsewhere in Wisconsin, but is no longer worried about the Dominion voting machines used in his hometown, even if his neighbors aren't convinced.

"I have constituents who believe Dominion is a problem," said Bossert, "and even though I've told them from what I can see, Dominion's not a problem, they still believe it.

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A new report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a program of the US Department of Education, confirms what most parents already knew: shutting down the schools because of the panic over covid was a disaster for American schoolchildren. According to the NAEP, since the 2020 school shutdowns the average nine-year-old suffered a decline in reading skills and math skills. The reading skills decline is the largest since 1990. The math skills decline is the first ever reported by NAEP.

What makes this especially tragic is that there was no medical justification for closing the schools. Children are unlikely to either contract or spread covid, so the idea that schools had to close to prevent children from infecting their families may be the most absurd of all the absurd claims made by covid authoritarians like Dr. Anthony I represent science Fauci.

It was clear to anyone truly following the science that school shutdowns were unnecessary and harmful. Yet, because of the combined clout of the teachers unions and the cult of Fauci, in many communities schools were among the last institutions to reopen. When the schools did reopen, children were forbidden to sit together at lunch or play together during recess. Children were also forced to wear masks the whole school day, which made many children sick.

The teachers unions pernicious role in closing the schools shows a sad disconnection among teachers union bosses (and the politicians that do their bidding) from the promoting of childrens education.

The one positive development from the school closures is that many parents discovered how concepts like critical race theory had been snuck into the government school curriculum. This has led to a parental uprising and a renewed focus on electing individuals to school boards who are committed to stopping government schools from indoctrinating children with political and social beliefs or undermining parents values.

Many parents moved their children to homeschooling in reaction to the school closures and the revelations on what was really being taught in government schools. After the school shutdowns, there was a huge increase in the number in homeschooling families. As dissatisfaction with government schools grows, more parents will begin homeschooling.

For almost a decade I have been involved with homeschooling through my Ron Paul Curriculum. Students using my homeschooling curriculum can attain a superior education in comparison to standards set by politicians or bureaucrats. Instead of indoctrinating students with instruction in subjects including critical race theory, the Ron Paul Curriculum provides students with a solid education in history, literature, mathematics, and the sciences. It also gives students the opportunity to create their own websites and internet-based businesses. The curriculum is designed to be self-taught, with students helping and learning from each other via online forums.

Starting in the fourth grade, students are required to write at least one essay a week. Students are required to post their essays on their blogs. Students also take a course in public speaking.

The curriculum does emphasize the history, philosophy, and economics of liberty, but it never substitutes indoctrination for education. The goal is to produce students with superior critical thinking skills who can thrive with their individuality.

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Fans of the late Selena Quintanilla have found out that as a newborn, the late Tejano music superstar was delivered by Ron Paul, prompting shock on social media today.

Yes, that's Ron Paul the former congressman and GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul, and father of Senator Rand Paul.

Now retired, the former politician worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist in Texas in the late 1960s and 1970s.

In fact, the Texas congressman reportedly delivered about 4,000 people born in rural south Texas during that time period, according to The Daily Beast.

Quintanilla was one of the most successful female Latin artists of all time, and met an ultimately and tragic death at the age of 23, after being shot in March 1995.

Her dad, Abraham Quintanilla, made the revelation about her birth earlier this year with Latin Groove News, as reported by the Houston Chronicle.

The singer was born in Lake Jackson, Texas, although her mother was not aware she was pregnant when she arrived at Freeport Community Hospital feeling ill.

"My wife was feeling ill. The doctor said at the conclusion [of the examination], 'You have a tumor. We have to operate and remove it,'" Abraham Quintanilla said.

He goes on to say that his wife, Marcella Ofelia Quintanilla, sought a second a opinion, and he claims that it came from Paul.

The singer's father said that Paul told him: "That tumor that the other doctor wanted to remove has two arms and two legs. She's pregnant."

Selena Quintanilla was subsequently born on April 16, 1971.

"Imagine if we had let the first doctor who wrongly diagnosed her, operate," Quintanilla said. "There would be no Selena."

Paul himself doesn't remember the exact incident but a representative said it was certainly plausible.

"There were just so many babies delivered in that period that [Paul] does not recall that specific case," Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, told the Houston Chronicle, per Insider.

While news of this bizarre connection made headlines earlier this year, some fans have just discovered it today, causing it to go viral.

"ron paul delivered selena. don't know what to do with this information so i'm bringing it here," reads a viral tweet from comedy writer Blaire Erskine.

Meanwhile, another popular tweet reads: "i have texted "did you know ron paul delivered selena" to maybe two dozen people today. i haven't known peace since ive learned this."

In late 2021, Newsweek reported on decade-old comments from former Congressman Paul about the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, with the inciteful words spreading on social media amid the then-unfolding crisis in the nation.

Social media users shared a speech Paul, who ran to be the Republican presidential candidate three times, made about Afghanistan in 2011 and in his 2012 farewell speech.

"The question we're facing today is should we leave Afghanistan? I think the answer is very clear and it's not complicated, that of course we should. As soon as we can," he said. "This suggests that we can leave by the end of the year. If we don't, we'll be there for another decade would be my prediction."

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Former Congressman Ron Paul has always been speaking truth when it comes to government corruption. Over three decades ago, Paul explained why the FBI is not necessary and appears to be almost entirely used against the American people.

It almost looks like the FBI was designed to spy on Americans who might be disagreeing with policy, especially the foreign policy, he said.

He acknowledged that not all the FBI does is harmful, that there are cases in which the FBI actually did its stated job to fight crime at the national level, but he also said that these investigations and arrests could be handled with cooperation between the states and the Department of Justice.

Its becoming increasingly clear that what Ron Paul warned about in 1988 is absolutely true today. Things have gotten worse. This is a political organization, the enforcement wing of a federal government that doesnt like to be questioned.

Ill keep this short. The rise of Pandemic Panic Theater, massive voter fraud, and other taboo topics have neutered a majority of conservative news sites. Youll notice they are very careful about what topics they tackle. Sure, theyll attack Critical Race Theory, Antifa, and the Biden-Harris regime, but you wont see them going after George Soros, Bill Gates, the World Economic Forum, or the Deep State, among others.

The reason is simple. They are beholden to Big Tech, and Big Tech doesnt allow certain topics to be discussed or theyll cut you off. Far too many conservative news outlets rely on Google, Facebook, and Twitter for the bulk of their traffic. They depend on big checks from Google ads to keep the sites running. I dont necessarily hold it against them. We all do what we need to do to survive. I just wish more would do like we have, which is to cut out Big Tech altogether.

We dont get Google checks. We dont have Facebook or Twitter buttons on our stories. We dont have a YouTube Channel (banned), an Instagram profile (never made one), or a TikTok (no thanks, CCP). Were not perfect, but were doing everything we can to not owe anything to anyone other than our readers. We owe YOU the truth. We owe YOU the facts that others wont reveal about topics that others wont tackle. And we owe America, this great land that allows us to take hold of these opportunities.

Like I said, I dont hold other conservative sites under too much scrutiny over their choices. Its easy for people to point fingers when were not the ones paying their bills or supporting their families. I just wish there were more who would make the bold move. Today, only a handful of other major conservative news outlets have broken free from the Big Tech teat. Of course, we need help.

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Operation Shutdown began for the Chicago White Sox on Sept. 21, one day after a crushing loss to the Cleveland Guardians virtually ended their postseason dreams.

Luis Robert and Tim Anderson soon were declared out for the rest of the season, joining Michael Kopech on the list of Sox players who probably could play through their injuries if the games had any meaning.

Manager Tony La Russa already had been shut down on Aug. 30 with a heart-related issue that doctors felt was serious enough to prevent him from managing the final month. Because he hasnt been made available to the media since the Sox announced Saturday that he wont return to the dugout this season, we can only speculate that he didnt deem these final games worth fighting the decision.

There may be more shutdowns as the losses pile up in the final week of the season, so stay tuned.

If youre still watching the Sox at this point, it can be for only two reasons. Either youre a glutton for punishment or youve built an immunity to pain and simply want to finish what you started.

Most of my family and friends fit in the latter category. Theyve seen many bad Sox teams over the years but watch the games until the bitter end anyway. Its in their DNA, so they can blame it on their parents, their grandparents or even Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, the first permanent settler of Chicago.

Like the season as a whole, this ending threatens to be the worst in Sox history and might even eclipse the complete collapse of the Chicago Sky, who were outscored 18-0 in the final 3:46 of their Game 5 loss to the Connecticut Sun in the WNBA playoffs.

The Sox entered Wednesdays game in Minnesota with a seven-game losing streak, hitting a combined .192 over that span with 61 strikeouts and 45 hits. Since the 11-inning loss to the Guardians in last weeks must-win series opener, they had led for only three innings in six games through Tuesday.

It has gotten so bad that postgame studio hosts Chuck Garfien and Ozzie Guillen have run out of ways to say the team is an embarrassment.

The only winner in all of this may be La Russa, who watched acting manager Miguel Cairo win for a couple of weeks, adding to the narrative that the team just needed a different voice. But Cairos star has faded since Operation Shutdown commenced, and now its clear the brief surge was a mirage.

That doesnt mean La Russa dodges responsibility for the underachieving season, but it suggests Cairo isnt the answer either.

So its back to the drawing board for ... were not exactly sure yet.

Normally executive vice president Ken Williams would have to decide whether general manager Rick Hahn also takes the fall and if an overhaul of the clubhouse is necessary to get the Sox back on the right track. But Williams also has to share some of the blame because he likes getting some of the credit when things go well.

The Sox have one World Series title and four trips to the postseason since Williams replaced Ron Schueler as GM after the 2000 season, then moved up the ladder in 2012. And they havent won a playoff series and have gone only twice since Hahn replaced Williams as GM.

In many organizations, that kind of record would lead to a no-fault divorce in which the owner thanks the executives for giving their all. But accountability is not a strong point of this organization, which hasnt won a postseason series outside of 2005 in the last 105 years.

There are no untouchables on the Sox, aside from Dylan Cease. But there are a few unloadables, including Yon Moncada, Yasmani Grandal, Joe Kelly and Leury Garca, whose contracts make them likely to return in 2023.

Fortunately for Williams and maybe Hahn there are several talented, relatively young players who could be dealt, including Anderson, Robert and Kopech, who were focal points of the rebuild. The Sox could get something of value in return for any of them, and the player would have the motivation to prove he can stay healthy and productive the whole season.

One or more of the Sox core should be dealt early in the offseason, sending a message theyre serious about changing the culture. The Cubs blew it by hanging on too long to the core of Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant and Javier Baez. Now their fans are paying the price with a second rebuild in a decade.

The picture the Sox painted from day one was one of a team that felt like it could turn it on when it really mattered. The lack of emotion on display in those shots of the dugout has been a constant reminder of the joylessness of playing on a .500 team.

Reinsdorf addressed that same issue back in 1996 after the Sox blew a 4-game American League wild-card lead in early August and fell out of the race in September. In an interview with WSCR-AM, he cited third baseman Robin Ventura as an example of the laid-back Sox clubhouse that needed an infusion of life.

When Harold Baines was here early in the 80s, no one really cared about him being laid-back because we had a lot of goofballs like Ron Kittle and Greg Luzinski and Jerry Koosman and (Tom) Paciorek, Reinsdorf said. But now, we dont have anybody of that nature. I think we have to get people with a little bit better personality. But they better be able to play baseball.

After the season the Sox added moody slugger Albert Belle, who could play baseball but didnt help change the direction. After two more playoff-free seasons, another rebuild began.

Taking La Russa out of the picture wont change the fact the clubhouse mix wasnt right. And if the same core is brought back again, Operation Shutdown could become an annual event.

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Rep. Tim Ryan (D., Ohio) says the United States is ready to ban gas cars, arguing in 2019 that socialist Bernie Sanders's plan to ban gas vehicles wasn't ambitious enough.On the Senate campaign trail, Ryan is sticking to gas guzzlers.

Ryan's first Senate campaign ad features him riding around with his son in a 2020 GMC Yukon, which gets roughly 14 to 15 miles per gallon around town. When leaving a campaign stop in Zanesville, Ohio, last month, Ryan boarded a 15-mile-per-gallon Chevrolet Tahoe.

Sometimes Ryan prefers his comparatively eco-friendly 2020 GMC Sierra, a truck, which gets around 23 miles per gallon. GMC does make an electric truck, the Hummer EV, which can get around 350 miles on a single battery charge, but it will set consumers back nearly $110,000.

"Tim loves his UAW-built American-made Tahoe," Ryan campaign spokeswoman Izzi Levy told the Washington Free Beacon, "and wouldn't trade it for anythingnot even the$70,000 BMWthat chauffeurs J.D. Vance around Ohio."

The debate over how much the United States should embrace electric cars has been a flashpoint in Ohio's Senate race, in which Ryan is facing off against Republican J.D. Vance. Although Ryan is a rubber stamp for President Joe Biden's green agenda, which has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into renewable energy initiatives, he has remained mum on how much the federal government should be regulating what cars Americans drive.

"When Tim Ryan ran for president, he fully embraced banning gas-powered vehicles and said that Bernie Sanders's climate change plan didnt go far enough," a spokesman for the Vance campaign told theFree Beacon. "Now that he is running for Senate in Ohio, he's doing everything he can to run away from those radical, far-left positions. Simply put, Tim Ryan will say whatever it takes to get elected and then sell out working-class Ohioans at the first chance he gets."

Ryan, who votes 100 percent of the time with President Joe Biden, has championed the Democratic Party's green push. A campaign spokeswoman told a local outlet earlier this month that the "auto industry is quickly moving toward electric vehicles." After Ryan voted for Biden's infrastructure bill in February, the congressman's office released a statement applauding provisions for, among other things, an "equitable network of chargers" for electric cars.

That money for green infrastructure is not much immediate help for Ohio voters. In the last week alone, gas prices there have spiked 10 cents per gallon, according to AAA.

As Ryan can testify, current electric vehicle models also do not offer enough space for large familiesor campaign staff. Ryan was spotted last month exiting a gas-powered Forest River Forester RV in Zanesville with his family.

Upon arriving at a fundraiser earlier this month with Paul Simon in Gahanna, Ohio, Ryan exited a Prevost H3-45 passenger bus. The miles per gallon? Seven to eight, according to an owners' forum.

Ryan will face off against Vance in November for the Senate seat occupied by retiring Republican Rob Portman. A RealClearPolitics average of recent polls finds Vance leading by over 1 point. The site rates the race as "Leans GOP."

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Pianist Paul Barnes and Native flutist Ron Warren discuss blended music that combines Indigenous musical ideas with western classical music during an interview on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in Lincoln, Neb.

Paul Barnes met Ron Warren in, of all places, North Dakota, when the Native flutist was called in to join Barnes, the Lincoln pianist, for a performance of Piano Concerto No. 2, After Lewis and Clark."

The performance of the piece that acclaimed composer Philip Glass wrote for Barnes began a creative collaboration between the musicians that extends to Monday night, culminating in the world premiere of The Way of Mountains and Desert, a solo piano piece Warren wrote for Barnes that will be the centerpiece of a program celebrating Warrens music.

Native flutistRon Warren (left) and University of Nebraska-Lincoln pianist Paul Barnes share a laugh as they rehearse at Westbrook Music Building on Friday.

R. Carlos Nakai played the Native flute when the concerto, commissioned for the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial, premiered at the Lied Center for Performing Arts in 2004. But Nakai wasnt available when Barnes was to perform the concerto with the Minot Symphony Orchestra in 2010 and suggested Warren as his replacement.

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It went so well, I swore that every subsequent performance that I had of the Glass work and weve played it in California and, of course, we played it twice here I always wanted to have Ron flown in from wherever he was, Barnes said.

Later, Barnes learned that Warren was a composer following a Jacksonville, Florida, concert that Warren drove from his Orlando-area home to attend.

I went up to hear Paul and it was his Greek Orthodox chant-based concert, Warren said. I was so taken with his singing and with Orthodox chant that I became really intrigued. So I had a flute phrase that kind of grew into a small piano piece that I sent off to Paul, just to thank him for that show. He played it for about a season.

That 2018 piece, Distances Between, will open Mondays concert and, appropriately, Barnes, Warren and Omaha Symphony bassist Danielle Meier will perform an arrangement of Sacagawea, the second movement of the Glass concerto that features the Native flute.

The second half of Mondays program will open with the new piece that Barnes commissioned from Warren.

Because I just love the way that Ron wrote for the piano, I wanted to commission a larger scale work, a big 20- to 25-minute work that would be kind of the focal point of performances, he said. Thanks to the Hixson-Lied College (of Fine and Performing Arts) I got my grant, Ron got paid and wrote this incredible, incredible piece for me.

What:"The Way of Mountains and Desert," celebrating the music of Ron Warren

Where: Kimball Recital Hall, 11th and R streets

When: 7:30 p.m. Monday

Admission: Free

The Way of the Mountains and Desert was inspired by a Barnes trip to the American Southwest for an Orthodox retreat, as well as indigenous poetry and Warrens own experiences.

Those experiences included playing in a deep gorge in Utah's Bryce Canyon National Park where reflections from a stream danced on the rock walls, giving Warren the idea for the high register, jumping, tinkling To Water, the pieces opening movement.

A lot of my music is the music of place anyway, of really trying to connect the beauty of a place and listening for what wants to be shared from that place, Warren said. So through a combination of our conversations, some of my favorite indigenous poets and my own memories from being in those places, what were calling the 'love song for the earth' grew as a flute song initially. From that grew the piano piece.

In Barnes Westbrook Music Building studio Friday, Barnes and Warren demonstrated how the flute song translates to the piano. While Barnes couldnt replicate the flutters of the flute and the piano added a low range of sounds, the graceful, flowing flute passage Warren played was largely replicated.

'I've always loved the way that Ron has played the flute, but I'm a pianist, so I never get to experience that," Barnes said. When he wrote this piano version of the flute song, it just felt so fluid. And I felt like I was actually a flute player.

Native flutistRon Warren rehearses Friday at Westbrook Music Building in Lincoln.

The concert will conclude with Beads, a four-movement duet between piano and Native flute that includes a section in which Warren gets to channel his inner Ian Anderson, the flutist of Jethro Tull fame.

That, too, could be heard during Fridays rehearsal, which vividly demonstrated how Native flute could be inserted into Western classical music, which Warren said isnt all that novel.

There are numerous indigenous musicians who, he said, are involved in every kind of music you can think of from classical piano to experimental electronic musicians building their own instruments.

The Way of Mountains and Desert, which Warren and Barnes will perform again in New York in May and likely play at concerts around the country over the next year, is a perfect example of something vibrantly new.

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnells move sets up a showdown with Democrats this week on energy permitting reform. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

BREAKING Senate Minority Leader MITCH McCONNELL is whipping against Sen. JOE MANCHINs (D-W.Va.) energy permitting reform bill, which Democrats want to combine with a stopgap government funding bill, Burgess Everett and Caitlin Emma revealed. That could torpedo the legislation that Democratic leaders agreed to grant Manchin this summer in exchange for his support of the Inflation Reduction Act.

McConnells move sets up a showdown this week as Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER tries to push the two pieces of legislation through. With some Democratic defections expected, Manchin will likely need a sizable chunk of Republican support. If McConnell can get enough of his conference to refuse and the reform gets dropped from the continuing resolution, itll be much more difficult to pass as a stand-alone proposition.

Manchin and McConnells relationship has run hot and cold over the years, largely tracking the political imperatives of the moment. After months of courting Manchin in order to block a reconciliation bill, preserve the filibuster and perhaps even flip the Senate majority, McConnell sees no need to help Manchin after his IRA vote, Burgess and Caitlin write.

Flashback to an old dispute, via Manu Raju in 2012: Football feud: McConnell vs. Manchin

But theres another Democratic centrist for whom McConnell had nothing but kind words today: Sen. KYRSTEN SINEMA (D-Ariz.) touted her bipartisan credentials in a speech at the University of Louisvilles McConnell Center, where McConnell introduced her as the most effective first-term senator Ive seen in my time in the Senate. Sinema lambasted both parties moves toward the left and right and the bitter and tribal extremism in todays political landscape. More from The Hill

Sinema also said she thinks the Senate should return to a 60-vote threshold for nominations, criticizing both President JOE BIDEN and DONALD TRUMP for supporting changes to the filibuster. (Law360s James Arkin notes that standard would have knocked out the vast majority of the judges Democrats have confirmed in the Biden era.)

And Sinema predicted its likely that Republicans will gain control of Congress in November. Responded Rep. RUBEN GALLEGO (D-Ariz.): I mean you could be out there helping our candidates @SenatorSinema But my sense is that you would actually prefer the Dems lose control of the Senate and House.

FOR YOUR RADAR Russian President VLADIMIR PUTIN today granted EDWARD SNOWDEN citizenship in the country where the NSA whistleblower has lived under asylum and then as a permanent resident for the past nine years. More from Reuters

STORM CHASING Ian has now strengthened into a hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said today, as Florida and Cuba watch warily. Its now forecast to hit the U.S. as a Category 4 storm Wednesday. And parts of Tampa Bays county are already under a mandatory evacuation notice. More from the Orlando Sentinel

JUST ANNOUNCED Press secretary KARINE JEAN-PIERRE said Biden will host the first state visit of his presidency on Dec. 1, bringing French President EMMANUEL MACRON to the White House.

Good Monday afternoon, and chag sameach to my fellow Rosh Hashanah celebrants. May all Playbook readers have a sweet new year.

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Amazons 750,000 hourly employees are eligible for Career Choice, which now fully funds college tuition.

BIG PICTURE

THE PRICE IS RIGHT Abortion has often been deemed the key issue behind Democrats polling rebound this summer. But NYTs Nate Cohn writes that another factor shouldnt be overlooked: Gas prices fell steadily over the same period, tracking neatly with the political turnaround. And as some economic indicators have worsened again in the past few weeks including gas prices halting their decline the polls have stopped improving for Dems.

BATTLE FOR THE HOUSE

GABE INCOGNITO New Mexico Democratic congressional nominee GABE VASQUEZ gave an interview to a local TV station as James Hall at a 2020 Black Lives Matter rally, The Washington Free Beacons Collin Anderson reports. We need serious police reform in this country, he said in the interview. Its not just about defunding police, its about defunding a system that privileges white people over everyone else.

In a statement to Playbook, a campaign spokesperson disputed the Free Beacon framing: Gabe did not give a fake name. That name was attributed to him by the news station when he declined to give his name as he wanted the focus to be on the organizers. Vasquez, who is seeking to unseat GOP Rep. YVETTE HERRELL, added in a statement, I oppose defunding the police, citing his funding votes on the Las Cruces City Council.

BATTLE FOR THE STATES

MASTRIANO FLAILING DOUG MASTRIANOs Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial campaign is struggling with minimal infrastructure, sparsely attended rallies and an advertising drought, NYTs Reid Epstein reports in a brutal story from Harrisburg. The Republican Governors Association has no plans to help him out. Ive not seen anything that is even a semblance of a campaign, says one top Pennsylvania Republican. Mastrianos far-right campaign is a test of whether an ultra-Trumpist strategy can prevail avoid the news media, double down on the base with few indicators of success so far.

Stunning data point: Along with Mr. Mastriano in Pennsylvania, Trump-backed candidates for governor in five other states Arizona, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts and Michigan have combined to air zero television advertisements since winning their primaries.

DOWN BALLOT Texas Democrats are hoping AG nominee ROCHELLE GARZA has a shot at unseating KEN PAXTON, focusing on persuading moderates to abandon the GOP incumbent over his legal scandals, WSJs Elizabeth Findell reports from Austin. Paxton is under indictment and a separate FBI investigation, potentially positioning Garza, a civil rights lawyer, as Dems best hope statewide in November. But Garza has struggled to raise money, keeping her off the airwaves. And Paxton is casting her as too liberal for Texas.

Arizona Republican secretary of state nominee MARK FINCHEM failed for years to follow state laws requiring elected officials to report their sources of income and business ties, the Arizona Republics Robert Anglen reports the very laws hed be in charge of overseeing. Finchem did not disclose nearly $2,000 a month in pension benefits and a few businesses in which he was involved from the time he took office in 2015 until January.

HOT POLLS

Pennsylvania: The Phillips Academy Poll shows very tight races: Democrat JOHN FETTERMAN leads MEHMET OZ in the Senate campaign 47% to 45%. And despite that NYT article above, Democratic gubernatorial nominee JOSH SHAPIRO is barely ahead of Mastriano, 46% to 43%.

Oklahoma: GOP Gov. KEVIN STITT is just 3 points ahead of JOY HOFMEISTER, 47% to 44%, per KOCO 5-Amber Integrated.

South Dakota: Republican Sen. JOHN THUNE leads BRIAN BENGS 46% to 33%, per a new Dem poll from Lake Research Partners.

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Georgia: Borrowing a page from the 2008 JOHN McCAIN playbook, GOP Gov. BRIAN KEMPs leadership committee is out with a new ad calling Democrat STACEY ABRAMS Celebrity Stacey, including images of magazine covers and footage of Abrams behind the scenes filming a cameo on the series Star Trek: Discovery.

Ohio: Democratic Rep. MARCY KAPTURs latest ad features RICK GOODMAN, a Republican voter, who says he cant support GOP nominee J.R. MAJEWSKI because of Majewskis extreme beliefs. Theres something wrong with that guy, Goodman says.

JAN. 6 AND ITS AFTERMATH

COMMITTEE LATEST The House Jan. 6 committee subpoenaed Wisconsin state House Speaker ROBIN VOS this weekend to learn more about a call he had with Trump in July. Vos sued to block enforcement of the subpoena in an emergency lawsuit. The committee initially demanded that Vos testify by this morning, though Kyle Cheney reports in Congress Minutes that the deadline has been extended as the parties await a judges ruling on the matter.

INSIDE ACCOUNT Former Capitol Police Chief STEVEN SUND, who commanded the force during the riot, said he will break my silence and reveal everything that I know happened in a new book, Courage Under Fire: Under Siege and Outnumbered 58 to 1 on January 6, set to come out just ahead of the riots second anniversary. His publisher, Blackstone, says Sund will include a never-before-heard accounting of a call from the White House amid the riot and never-before-detailed conversations he had with congressional leaders, APs Hillel Italie reports.

THE PLOT TO SUBVERT THE ELECTION PHIL WALDRON texted then-White House chief of staff MARK MEADOWS in December 2020 about his efforts to find election fraud in Arizona and Georgia, CNNs Zachary Cohen reveals. Waldron, a prominent promulgator of fraud conspiracy theories, called Arizona our lead domino we were counting on to start the cascade, and Meadows texted him that opponents efforts to stop Waldron from accessing voting machines were [p]athetic. Despite attempts to distance himself from the more dubious attempts to keep Trump in office, the messages underscore how Meadows was an active participant.

THE HUNT FOR VOTER FRAUD The Arizona AGs efforts to detect voter fraud over the past few years have turned up few cases and rather than bolster confidence in elections, the absence of massive fraud has just fueled more bogus theories and distrust, WaPos Beth Reinhard and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez report from Phoenix. Now, as more Republican-led states implement similar efforts, Arizona stands as a cautionary tale of devoting state resources to baseless claims of widespread fraud. The election crimes unit, which was created after Democrats won key races in 2018, hasnt satisfied Republicans who say its done too little. But its existence has nonetheless helped undermine trust in elections.

WHO YOU GONNA CALL After former Rep. DENVER RIGGLEMAN revealed that there was a call from a White House landline on the afternoon of Jan. 6 to someone who stormed the Capitol, CNNs Jamie Gangel and Elizabeth Stuart today pulled back the curtain on one half of the call: The recipient was ANTON LUNYK. A 26-year-old Brooklyn man, Lunyk was sentenced earlier this month for criminally illegally demonstrating inside the Capitol. But Lunyk says he doesnt remember receiving the nine-second call and claims he doesnt know anyone who worked in the Trump White House. Its still not clear who placed the call or whether its of any real significance.

ROCKY RHODES From Phoenix, APs Jacques Billeaud and Lindsay Whitehurst trace the path of STEWART RHODES from an elite Yale Law pedigree and work as a RON PAUL staffer to founding the extremist Oath Keepers militia, ahead of his seditious conspiracy trial Tuesday. For Rhodes, it will be a position at odds with the role of greatness that he has long envisioned for himself, said his estranged wife, TASHA ADAMS. He was going to achieve something amazing, Adams said. He didnt know what it was, but he was going to achieve something incredible and earth shattering.

JUDICIARY SQUARE

SCOTUS WATCH The Conference of Chief Justices doesnt usually weigh in on Supreme Court cases, let alone controversial ones. But the bipartisan group of the countrys top state court judges is urging the Supreme Court not to upend election law this term by adopting the radical independent state legislature theory, which could allow state legislatures to override constitutions without judicial review on election changes, NYTs Adam Liptak reports. The case could transform redistricting and other election litigation, too.

Bloombergs Greg Stohr previews the term to come, in which the courts conservative majority looks set to pull American jurisprudence further to the right on a variety of issues, from the Clean Water Act to the Voting Rights Act to affirmative action to same-sex wedding services. The revolution is proving as wide as it is deep, he writes. With the conservative legal revolution marching on, the question is increasingly not so much where the Supreme Court is going as how quickly its going to get there.

THE WHITE HOUSE

FLORIDA FEVER Bidens postponement of a Florida campaign swing due to Hurricane Ian belies the White Houses uncertainty about how to treat the swing state thats tinting red, NBCs Mike Memoli reports: For weeks, there has been a debate among Biden advisers about whether to elevate [Gov. RON] DeSANTIS at a time he clearly welcomes engaging in the national conversation.

TRUMP CARDS

RECORDS REQUEST The National Archives has to inform the House Oversight Committee by Tuesday whether its still missing records from the Trump White House, WSJs Siobhan Hughes previews.

ON THE FRINGES How a QAnon splinter group became a feature of Trump rallies, by WaPos Isaac Arnsdorf in Wilmington, N.C.: Numbering about 100, they can be spotted by their lanyards sporting as many as 16 commemorative buttons from each rally they have attended. The arrival of the QAnon group [Negative48], however, has led to a silent standoff with Trumps team, raising concerns that they could disrupt events, alienate other fans, distract from the former presidents message or generate bad publicity.

AMERICA AND THE WORLD

TIKTOK ON THE CLOCK TikTok and Biden administration have ironed out the fundamentals of a deal to take care of national security worries around the app, but it still needs to surmount some final negotiating hurdles, NYTs Lauren Hirsch, David McCabe, Katie Benner and Glenn Thrush report. The draft agreement would change the apps governance, algorithms and data security but not its ownership structure. ByteDance wouldnt be required to sell TikTok (a potential political vulnerability for the Biden administration). A final deal could still be months away, though, as Deputy AG LISA MONACO and Treasury officials have raised continuing concerns about China and national security.

THE ECONOMY

WHAT RON KLAIN IS READING Manufacturing in the U.S. is enjoying a renaissance the likes of which we havent seen in decades and this iteration looks different than it used to, NYTs Jim Tankersley, Alan Rappeport and Ana Swanson report. The center of gravity is shifting from the Rust Belt to the Mountain West and Southeast. And instead of reshoring jobs in the industries of yore, the new manufacturing boom comes in the likes of pharmaceuticals and craft beers. Economists attribute the strong bounce-back to the unusual aspects of the pandemic-triggered recession. The Biden administration also touts the American Rescue Plans role in helping revitalize.

A BIT OF RELIEF Apartment rent prices in August fell 0.1% from July, the first time theyve declined since December 2020, new CoStar Group data shows, per the WSJ.

POLICY CORNER

BIG AFTERNOON READ How Policy Got Done in 2022, by The American Prospects David Dayen: To understand the Democrats big climate and health care bill, you must go back decades.

UP IN THE AIR The Transportation Department today is rolling out a proposed new rule that would force airlines and travel websites to tell customers up front about extra fees, CNNs Kate Sullivan reports. At todays White House Competition Council meeting, Biden is expected to call on other agencies to take similar action to increase transparency and limit add-on fees for American consumers.

THE PANDEMIC

GETTING A BOOST Pfizer and BioNTech today said they asked the FDA to authorize their new Omicron-specific coronavirus vaccine booster for kids ages 5 to 11. More from USA Today

PLAYBOOKERS

MEDIA MOVE Elahe Izadi will co-host WaPos Post Reports podcast. Shell also continue as a media reporter. Announcement

TRANSITIONS Dan Jasper is now a policy adviser for Project Drawdown. He previously was Asia public education and advocacy coordinator at the American Friends Service Committee. Charles Williams is now manager for advocacy and government affairs (federal) for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He most recently was legislative assistant for Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.). Peggy Ellis is now a strategic partner with Strategic Elements. She currently is president and founder of Ellis and Co., and is a DOT and RNC alum.

Corrections: Tuesdays Playbook PM misspelled Madison Malins name. Fridays Playbook PM mistakenly included Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) in a spotted item at a Moon Rabbit lunch.

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