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Solar eclipse crosses U.S. as millions view historic sight

CARBONDALE, Ill./ST. LOUIS (UPI) -- The United States' first total solar eclipse in 38 years arrived Monday, as millions witnessed the historic event. The eclipse became one of the largest mass migrations in human history, as experts said more than 200 million Americans were within a day's drive of the path of totality. The partial eclipse began on the Oregon coast at 9:04 a.m., PDT -- between Lincoln City and Newport. The full eclipse started at 10:16 a.m., and the maximum phase occurred […]

todayAugust 21, 2017

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Illinois Policy Institute: Moody’s warns delay of state funding for Illinois schools a ‘credit negative’

SPRINGFIELD/CHICAGO (Illinois Policy Institute) -- State lawmakers keep giving ratings agencies reasons to downgrade Illinois government: pension crises, years of bad budgets and a two-year budget impasse are just a few examples. All have caused the credit ratings of various Illinois governments – from cities to universities to the state itself – to collapse. Many are now junk-rated and the state is just one notch away from junk itself. Now the ratings agencies have yet another reason to downgrade some […]

todayAugust 21, 2017

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Sen. Andy Manar rejects funding changes that would bring $8.7 million more to his school districts

SPRINGFIELD (Heartland Newsfeed/Illinois Policy Institute) -- The chief Senate sponsor of Senate Bill 1, State Sen. Andy Manar (D-Bunker Hill) has criticized Gov. Bruce Rauner’s amendatory veto of the new education funding bill. Rauner’s amendatory veto removed language from SB 1 that amounted to a bailout for Chicago Public Schools. Specifically, Manar promoted a map that shows analysis by Advance Illinois claiming a large number of “losing districts” under the governor’s changes. But an Illinois State Board of Education analysis […]

todayAugust 13, 2017

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Discovery to buy Scripps in deal valued at $14.6 billion

SILVER SPRING, Md./CINCINNATI, Ohio (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Discovery Communications Inc. said Monday they have reached an agreement to buy Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $14.6 billion, including $2.7 billion of debt. Discovery will pay $90 a share, or 34% over Scripps' unaffected share price as of July 18. The deal is expected to close by early 2018. The combined company will produce about 8,000 hours of original programming annually and be home to about 300,00 hours […]

todayJuly 31, 2017

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State tax hike means Harrisburg elite couple get richer

HARRISBURG (Heartland Newsfeed) -- School’s out in the summertime. So when Harrisburg School District superintendent Mike Gauch and his wife Angella, a teacher in Carbondale, decided they would drive to Springfield earlier this month, getting out of work wasn’t a concern. Unlike most working adults in Saline County, they are off work in July. This year, they spent part of their summer vacation successfully lobbying for a state income tax hike. When the tax hike passed, Angella Gauch lauded state legislators on […]

todayJuly 28, 2017

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U.S. mathematics team finishes fourth behind Korea, China, Vietnam

Ray Downs, United Press International Writer RIO DE JANEIRO (UPI) -- The U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad team finished in fourth place in international competition, taking home gold and silver medals, the Mathematical Association of America announced. The U.S. team's fourth place finish was out of 110 teams around the world and behind only Korea, China and Vietnam in the competition, which was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. "We are very proud to be among the top five scoring teams again […]

todayJuly 25, 2017

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Remembering Henry David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience

Today, July 12, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Henry David Thoreau, known best for chronicling his experiment in simple and self-sufficient living in Walden. Less remembered, however, is that while living at Walden Pond, he gave an 1848 lecture on “Resistance to Civil Government”— since published as Civil Disobedience—which had much farther reaching effects. The book helped inspire the World War II resistance, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, those struggling against apartheid, and others. And it still has […]

todayJuly 12, 2017

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Do Schools Really Need More Money?

A common chorus of if/then statements dominates most contemporary discussions of education reform: If schools had more money, then they would do better at educating kids. If teachers were paid more money, then they would do better at educating kids. If there were more taxpayer support for traditional public schools, then we would have better education outcomes. But is more money really the answer? Or is the problem with the structure of forced schooling itself? An article last week in […]

todayJuly 11, 2017

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Illinois Conservation Foundation announces 2017 Conservation Achievement Scholarship winners

SPRINGFIELD (Heartland Newsfeed) – The Illinois Conservation Foundation (ICF) today announced the selections of Patricia Calderon of Chicago and Jacob Handel of Sycamore as recipients of the 2017 Conservation Achievement Scholarships. Both high school seniors will receive $2,000 to apply to specified expenses at the two- or four-year college or university of their choice. "Through the Conservation Achievement Scholarship program, the ICF is able to recognize and reward the hard work on conservation stewardship and natural resources protection being done […]

todayJune 29, 2017

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