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“I would actually recommend that maybe we start staying in town,” said Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, arguing, “it just forces us to come together and really start reckoning with the shutdown.”

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“We think the wider equity market surge has further to run and that valuations will stretch further before a broader reckoning arrives,” he added.

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It has had no reckoning with its great institutional failures, including 10% inflation and repeated bailouts.

It was caused partly by record rain, but was also a reckoning for years of rampant overdevelopment and a waste management system under enormous strain.

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Local officials first raised the prospect during the national reckoning on racial injustice that followed the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, but the plan has progressed in sluggish fits and starts since then.

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