Joan Esposito is joined by Heartland Signal’s Rich Eberwein with three stories you might have missed from our digital newsroom.

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Joan Esposito is joined by Dr. Stockton Mayer, infectious disease physician at UI Health.

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Joan Esposito is joined by Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL).

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Joan Esposito is joined by Oren Jacobson, executive director and co-founder of Men4Choice, which “exists to activate, educate, and mobilize male allies into the fight” for reproductive freedom “as active partners and allies.”

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Joan Esposito is joined by Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL).

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Joan Esposito is joined by Nick Blumberg, correspondent at WTTW News, who talks about his reporting on Chicago's Roseland Community Hospital. His latest piece is "Roseland Hospital Failed to Monitor a Patient During a Mental Health Crisis, Regulators Say. Now He’s Charged With Killing His Wife."

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Joan Esposito is joined by Lindsay Nichols, policy director at GIFFORDS Law.

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Joan Esposito is joined by James Stroud, a statistician at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) currently on administrative leave; he has gone public with his opposition to the Trump administration’s wide-ranging effort to obstruct FEMA’s work and recently signed the FEMA Katrina Declaration.

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