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In a June 2 letter to village manager Drew Irvin, the Uihleins wrote: "Given the size of our 22-acre Lake Bluff property, we would like to request a similar two-year waiver." They added that battery-powered blowers "just can't do the job as well and are basically as noisy as gasoline-powered ones." Village President Regis Charlot referred the Uihleins' request to the village's Community Improvement and Sustainability Committee, which discussed the issue but denied the request, Irvin told POLITICO's Illinois Playbook. The village trustees unanimously rejected the Uihleins' request at their June 27 board meeting. according to Pioneer Presswho first wrote…

Taylor said then-Defense Secretary James Mattis cornered him one day after a Situation Room meeting. “'All of you should prepare as if we were going to war,' he warned. Mattis was serious. DHS should assume the homeland was in mortal danger." The Department of Homeland Security took a step it had never taken before, according to Taylor, who is best known for writing an anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times in 2018 describing a “silent resistance” in the Trump administration “of people who choose to put country first.” “We convened all of the top DHS leaders to discuss…

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