Small-scale, fiercely independent journalism rarely gets recognition when awards are handed out, but it's vital in our communities—especially this year. So I made an award and am thrilled to announce @unraveledpress.com and @lataco.bsky.social as the inaugural winners. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

Not sure if you’re planning a Friday night Zillow @steventdennis.bsky.social but if I may suggest - definitely check out the master bedroom www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

Schumer said the train left the station. This was the last real chance to keep enhanced ACA subsidies after this month. He's probably right, given what's happening in the House.

Thinking about the debate on just hiking the garbage fee, I realize it’s like a flat tax. In theory it’s fair. In practice, if you’re looking at the problem of people being able to afford to live where they work, it’s a problem

Steve Scalise says House will start voting on healthcare bills next week. "not just ideas actual bills, and we are now focused on bringing a number of those bills to the floor next week that we have consensus on."

A 5-month-old baby died, & 3 surviving children, ages 2, 4, & 5, had to be hospitalized with rickets, osteopenia, vitamin D deficiency, & significant developmental delays bc their parents put them on “alkaline diets.” Anyone saying alkalization has health benefits is a murderous liar & a charlatan.

Medicare Advantage can be an option for seniors IF it's offered in the county where you live. We found that even if you have the option this year, next year it could go away. My deep dive with @nonatc.bsky.social for @modernhealthcare.bsky.social www.modernhealthcare.com/insurance/mh...

@timbroderick.bsky.social and I mapped where UnitedHealth, Humana, Aetna, Elevance Health and Kaiser deemed worthy of investment in Medicare Advantage — and which counties they were willing to leave behind. Do the changes surprise you? www.modernhealthcare.com/insurance/mh...

Exclusive: A Modern Healthcare analysis found the prominence of Medicare Advantage plans across the country is receding as insurers pull back in search of greater profitability. www.modernhealthcare.com/in...

This Island Earth, but it’s the MST3K version

Turned out great!

Starting the day

You could say Republicans are at the spaghetti-on-the-wall stage with attempts to find a counter to letting enhanced ACA subsidies. Proving to be a real headache. Walking the halls of Congress, you could hear vitriol at insurance companies, lots about HSAs, and tons of proposals for ACA changes.

Hospitals are not increasing revenue fast enough to keep up with two factors entirely out of their control — inflation and the graying of America. Read my latest data dive with @timbroderick.bsky.social here: bit.ly/4o6czrr via @modernhealthcare.bsky.social

Went looking for a bit of history on Chicago’s head tax and found this good read by the @thetriibe.com thetriibe.com/2025/11/eman...

Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗

Just about see the #aurora from our NW side #Chicago back yard

I have lost count of the number of times that Ellis has said the Trump administration's arguments "lack credibility."

Greetings from the Dirksen federal courthouse, where U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis has just taken the bench to rule on federal agents actions' during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs. Background, for @wttw.bsky.social from @bymattmasterson.bsky.social

We have the hot block this year

I'm not talented at self-promotion, so I feel almost certain that a big selling point will be that we have a chat thread where we post pictures of mushrooms. Oh, also, brand new material set in Seraphina's world, available nowhere else: patreon.com/u3437010?utm...

Perry: The federal government is "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois." That's it. Thanks again for following.

Greetings from U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is present, waiting for the high stakes hearing to begin. @wttw.bsky.social

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Mike Johnson: Democrats "have made a decision that they would rather give taxpayer funded benefits to illegal aliens than to keep the doors open for the American people." to be clear, this has been fact-checked repeatedly, and federal dollars do not fund benefits for the undocumented.

Who in healthcare do you not want to be right now? Start with telehealth. But the bite from the shutdown could be really long-lasting and painful for community health centers, small rural hospitals. They're already planning for HR 1, and now losing key funding streams to support current operations

Why do economists care about inequality in incomes and wealth? 1) Inequality tends to dampen overall economic performance. One of most immediacy effects is on consumer spending. Low-and middle-income households spend a larger percentage of each dollar that they earn when more spending is in…

Some post-acute providers are walking away from Medicare Advantage insurers they say often deny or delay care.

World health officials counter President Trump's unproven claim of link between Tylenol and autism.

WSJ - Federal economists and researchers responsible for measuring hunger in America are placed on indefinite paid leave. www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u...

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My first job was with his Southtown Economist, at the printing plant at 60th and Harlem. Same plant that printed the New York Times. Saw the first color photo on the NYT front page roll off the presses.

Pretty surreal watching All The President’s Men last night and following the news at the same time

I am begging national media not to recycle this narrative and pay attention to the local reporting on the ground like @thetriibe.com There’s video. There’s pictures. This was no riot.

It's not just government funding at stake in this showdown. It's also telehealth and hospital-at-home. If Congress can't cut some sort of deal over the next week, thousands of people with telehealth appoints on Oct. 1 or remote hospital services will be out of luck.

Wanna Get Away? Come escape with us to #FridayNightZillow, back for tonight, hopefully to bring a smile to your face and a break from doomscrolling.

Hanging out in our Chicago hellhole

RFK, CMS and Elevance: Here are the headlines to know today. www.modernhealthcare.com/us...

The "One Big Beautiful Bill" is already starting to bite. Adams County, Pennsylvania, offers a snapshot of what providers are doing to adapt.

get in, losers, we're improvising with John Reischman tunes at speed

A good book to have come today

The 1,264 people shot in Chicago through August 30 this year signifies far, far too many lives impacted by gun violence, but that figure is down 37 percent through this point last year and down nearly 60 percent from this point in 2021.

Biking the drive in the beautiful city hellhole

Friday night vinyl

Beautiful day

Federal regulators are giving insurers freer rein to design short-term plans with longer run times. Here's what that means.

Listening to the Jaywalkers latest album to wind down after a long week. music.apple.com/us/album/fli...

🚀 I made a tracker that shows when the Census Bureau adds or removes datasets from their APIs. Dashboard at www.hrecht.com/census-api-d... and follow @censusapitracker.bsky.social for major updates. I've been wanting to build this for years but now seemed an especially important time to keep track.

This is quite beautiful. All hail Dmitry Lamonov