Catherine Allen

2 months ago | politico.com | Jordan Wolman |Catherine Allen |Jessie Blaeser

A POLITICO analysis found roughly a quarter of all large metro areas face both housing shortages and high flood risk. A man stands outside of his flooded home after heavy rain in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2023. | Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images A little-noticed flood last summer in an Illinois city that left one dead and swallowed up homes and businesses after heavy rainfall left a damaged community struggling to figure out what’s next.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Jordan Wolman |Catherine Allen |Jessie Blaeser

A little-noticed flood last summer in an Illinois city that left one dead and swallowed up homes and businesses after heavy rainfall left a damaged community struggling to figure out what’s next. But after the neighborhood near Keith Creek in Rockford, Illinois, went through at least its third major flooding event in less than 20 years, the city expanded its voluntary buyout program to demolish flood-prone properties and reduce development along the waterway. State Sen.

Aug 25, 2024 | politico.com | Catherine Allen

The tech industry plays a notable role in Harris’ support from her home state. Employees at Google and its parent company Alphabet ($262,000) made up the largest tech contributions, followed by Apple ($170,000) and Meta ($81,000). And her campaign is also poised to win back even more individual donors in the tech industry who supported her 2020 presidential run.

Aug 12, 2024 | politico.com | Catherine Allen |Will McCarthy |Emily Schultheis

The anti-rent-control “No on 33” and the pro-schools-bond “Yes on Proposition 2” campaigns have each received notable support from donations of $1,000 or less, according to a POLITICO analysis. | Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty ImagesLANDLORDS LEND A HAND — Two committees may be on their way to doing one of the toughest things in ballot-measure politics: building a fundraising base of small donors.

Jul 23, 2024 | yahoo.com | Catherine Allen

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), one of the strongest voices arguing for the president to stay in the race after his dismal debate performance, was angry when she learned on television Sunday that President Joe Biden was bowing out. “We had been told up to the last minute that he was going to stay,” Waters told POLITICO Monday in a frank interview about how she is processing this seismic shift in the nation’s political landscape.