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On the latest edition of the Politically Speaking podcast, St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum and Jo Mannies welcome back U.S. Rep. John Shimkus to the show for the third time.
The statistics are sobering. Opioid overdoses have killed nearly 11,000 people in Illinois since 2008. Last year alone, that number was nearly 2,000 — twice the number of fatal car crashes. State officials estimate that number will continue to explode.
Sexual harassment at the Capitol, workers' rights and student loans — a look at recent action in the state legislature.
The list of prominent men accused of sexual harassment is growing. Eight women have told The Washington Post that veteran television host Charlie Rose sexually harassed them between the late 1990s and 2011.
As winter approaches, emergency shelters are opening in Champaign-Urbana. An overnight shelter for men was scheduled to open Monday night, November 20.
