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Four draws and now this defeat is beyond a crisis given the demands of being in charge of the club.

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After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.

As deportations slow construction, and tariffs and trade wars make supplies scarcer and more expensive, the housing shortage becomes an even deeper crisis.

“I argue it was the fugitive crisis, more than the territorial crisis, that drove the coming of the Civil War,” Pinsker said.

Proponents say drastic measures are necessary given the state’s affordability crisis.

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