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COMMENTARY: Republican legislators implicated as part of Madigan special interest donations

As if the whole corruption saga surrounding Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan wasn't already interesting. However, it just got that much more interesting, based on recent developments that now implicate members of the Republican Party. Madigan, presumably "Public Official A" in recent ComEd legal filings, and some of his special interests may have something to do with contributions to some Republicans as well. Davidsmeyer willingly admits to receiving ComEd money State Rep. C.D. Davidsmeyer (R-Jacksonville) recently stated on local station […]

todayJuly 29, 2020

Editorial

EDITORIAL: We will never hide behind a paywall

(Heartland Newsfeed) -- Just in the past few weeks, a Central Illinois newspaper that has been in existence since the mid-to-late nineteenth century has made a transition; a transition from traditional print to digital with a paywall. On May 28, 2020, the Shelbyville Daily Union, which has been in existence since May 1863, announced that they would make some changes. Among these changes was a significant shift from being a print publication to a digital publication. A paper that once […]

todayJune 19, 2020

Editorial

EDITORIAL: Amateur political blog is a joke for Libertarian ticket criticisms

(Heartland Newsfeed) -- As soon as the top of the Libertarian ticket was declared this past weekend online, trolls pretending to run news organizations went to the attack. This editorial is directed at the amateur shitfest known as The American Thinker. Some fake journalist by the name of Taylor Lewis did nothing more than attempt a hit piece on the 2020 Libertarian ticket of Jo Jorgensen and Spike Cohen in a "news" article on the site Tuesday. (I have no […]

todayMay 27, 2020

Commentary

WITHERSPOON: Is Governor Pritzker obtuse?

There’s a pivotal moment in the award-winning film, The Shawshank Redemption when the main character Andy Dufresne discovers there is evidence that could prove his innocence in the murder of his wife and her lover. Andy naively brings this to the attention of the corrupt, tyrannical warden Samuel Norton, who has relied upon Andy’s accounting acumen to skim and launder money from the prison. The warden declares the evidence he has found is false. He tells Andy he should forget about […]

todayMay 6, 2020

Commentary

KNAPP: No, the politicians didn’t save us from COVID-19

Writing at Reason Magazine, Eric Boehm notes two trends revealed in data released by Apple and Foursquare. Trend One:Americans began reducing their outings and social interactions before, not because of, “shelter in place” orders issued by grandstanding, opportunistic politicians. Trend Two:Americans started coming back out and resuming something like normal life before, not because, those politicians started lifting those orders. In other words, with COVID-19 as with everything else, government policy is a trailing, rather than leading, indicator. Politicians don't start parades […]

todayMay 5, 2020

Commentary

Pandemic or not, we’ll continue to deliver the news

For the past four years, Heartland Newsfeed has been dedicated to bringing you the most up-to-date news. The news has varied over time, but if it's important to you, it's important to us. As publisher and editor-in-chief, one of the greatest concerns I've heard is the lack of local news and the absence of a local news operation. I would like to assure you that while the Nokomis Free Press-Progress -- the local newspaper that I contribute content to now […]

todayApril 1, 2020

Commentary

EDITORIAL: Ballot access campaigns for alternative parties are about to become much harder

(Heartland Newsfeed) -- As each state is slowly making restrictions on events with attendance over a specific threshold as the result of the COVID-19 coronavirus, those restrictions have a wide-spreading impact on alternative parties wishing to gain ballot access on the general election ballot in November. Thursday, a joint press release was pushed out jointly by Libertarian Party of Iowa chairman Mike Conner, Jr. and Iowa Green Party co-chair Erin Young regarding COVID-19 and how this will impact their candidate […]

todayMarch 13, 2020

Editorial

EDITORIAL: Eating crow over WWE Elimination Chamber predictions

(Heartland Newsfeed) -- In the relentless cycle that is the 24-hour news cycle, it's definitely too late for me to write a review for WWE's recent PPV Elimination Chamber. In a preview of the event, as published on Ambush Sports, I made some predictions for the show: Shayna Baszler in the women's Elimination Chamber match Braun Strowman would retain the WWE Intercontinental Championship in a handicap match against Sami Zayn, Cesaro and Shinsuke Nakamura The New Day would win back […]

todayMarch 10, 2020

Columnists

EDITORIAL: Total chaos in the newsroom and home studio, weighing goods and bads

(Heartland Newsfeed) -- The past few weeks have been total, absolute chaos -- but for some odd reason, this chaos has actually been good for me. That's rare. I have to evaluate the goods against the bads and that's fine. (Even if they serve as separate entities part of an inner monologue.) GOOD JAKE: I've secured a broadcast deal with iMedia1 Radio Network to carry football games from a semi-professional league called the Gridiron Developmental Football League, with coverage starting with […]

todayFebruary 21, 2020

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