Senior Judge
Robert Rancourt was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the Addiction Policy Forum. As a member of the board, Rancourt joins leaders across the fields of prevention, treatment, recovery, criminal justice, and advocacy who work to support patients, families, and communities impacted by addiction.
Since his appointment as a Minnesota district court judge in 2002, Rancourt has championed improving how the judicial system responds to addiction. In September 2020, he was assigned to serve statewide as senior judge for Minnesota.
“I am honored to serve on the Board of Directors of the Addiction Policy Forum,” said Rancourt. “This is a wonderful organization that is leading the fight against the deadly consequences of addiction.”
An economic development incentive that has played a pivotal role in downtown Fort Wayne s renaissance will continue through 2025 as part of the federal pandemic relief package.
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What a year, eh? When it started, the public discourse was about impeachment, and who even remembers that now?
A persistent, invisible threat to life and livelihood will tend to make you forget former cares and reorder priorities. In 2020, the pandemic altered life so profoundly that for many Chicagoans, their relationship to each other and to city institutions changed. For many, work has been severed from a traditional place to do it, surrounded by colleagues or from standard commuting patterns.
Much has been written about whether the glue that binds cities together will give way because of the pandemic. Luckily, trends have a way of smoothing out over time. For every tech worker who decamps for Idaho or rustic Michigan, somebody else will toy with the option but stay put, whether it’s because a small-town music scene isn’t any good or there’s a real deficit in health care just about anywhere beyond metro areas.
Here’s what you need to know about coronavirus in Chicago and around Illinois.
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8:55 p.m. Illinois’ coronavirus death toll tops 16,000
Dr. Pam Khosia, chief of hematology and oncology, receives her Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination at Mount Sinai Hospital on the Southwest Side, Thursday afternoon, Dec. 17, 2020. Sinai received 975 doses of the vaccine, the hospital’s first batch, Thursday.
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The death toll in Illinois from the coronavirus has climbed past the 16,000 mark, state public health officials said Monday.
The state reported 105 deaths from the coronavirus and 4,453 new confirmed and probable cases of the virus Monday. The death toll rose to 16,074 since the pandemic began nine months ago.
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to Apogee s Fiscal 2021 Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call.
[Operator Instructions] I would now like to hand the conference to you speaker today, Jeff Huebschen. Please go ahead, sir.
Jeff Huebschen
Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
Thank you, Jewel. Good morning and welcome to Apogee Enterprises Fiscal 2021 third quarter earnings call. With me today are Joe Puishys, Apogee s Chief Executive Officer and Nisheet Gupta, Chief Financial Officer. I d like to remind everyone that there are slides to accompany today s remarks which are available in the Investor Relations section of Apogee s website.