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Illinois Senate panel tentatively OKs plan to feed wild deer

SPRINGFIELD (Illinois News Network) -- People are not supposed to feed wild deer in Illinois. Baiting deer for hunting is illegal, and the state's Department of Natural Resources says feeding wild deer can spread disease. But some people in some places in Illinois could soon give some deer something to eat. State Sen. Chapin Rose recently told lawmakers in Springfield that there are veterinarians who say feeding deer outside of hunting season will help keep the animals healthy. "The healthful […]

todayApril 21, 2018 16

Business & Lifestyle

McCALEB OP-ED: Collapse of Harvey’s finances signals what’s to come across Illinois

(Illinois News Network) -- The unfolding fiscal crisis in south suburban Harvey should send shivers down the spines of public employees and retirees across Illinois. It also should give pause to taxpayers, who already pay the highest combined local and state taxes in the country and who continually are being forced to pay more because of unsustainable public pension benefits and a culpable state government that refuses to do anything about them. Last fall, Illinois' First District Appellate Court ordered the city of […]

todayApril 21, 2018 57

Capital Area Region

With union backing, McCann joins race for Illinois governor

SPRINGFIELD (Illinois News Network) -- Illinois state Sen. Sam McCann (R-Plainview) announced Thursday that he plans run as a third-party candidate for governor – a move that likely would siphon votes from incumbent Gov. Bruce Rauner. The first-term governor is widely viewed as an underdog in the race for the state's highest office against billionaire J.B. Pritzker. McCann's campaign with the Conservative Party stands to draw votes away from Rauner, who has alienated many conservative voters. Rauner narrowly defeated […]

todayApril 20, 2018 22

Decision 2018

Election official: Illinois needs to change early voting rules

CHICAGO (Illinois News Network) -- There's a growing push to change how Illinois handles early voting. The first day of early voting for the March 20th primary was Feb. 8. That's 40 days before the election. Board of Election Commissioners for the City of Chicago spokesman Jim Allen told a crowd at an Illinois Campaign for Political Reform event on Thursday that Illinois' early voting law is unworkable because it requires local election offices to be ready a month and ten days […]

todayApril 17, 2018 30

Business & Lifestyle

GUEST COLUMN: Why your tax break isn’t bigger

It’s everyone’s least favorite time of year again - tax season - which means millions of middle class Americans have spent the last few weeks stressed over their family’s financial health. As they look forward through 2018, some see promise, some see problems, and some see uncertainty. But almost none of them see something very important that they were promised last year, something that has completely failed to materialize – a middle class tax cut. In the debate over last […]

todayApril 17, 2018 51

Letters To The Editor

SMITH: Support Libertarian candidates on the ballot in New Hampshire

Piece by piece the government is coming for you. First they came for your money. But that was just the start. Now they are coming for your words, and most importantly, they are coming for your thoughts. And it is comply or else. Day by day we see the government taking more steps trying to “help” us or “protect” us. Many of these actions are based on laws passed to help one group at the expense of another. But as […]

todayApril 16, 2018 14

Business & Lifestyle

Rauner signs SB1451, paving the way for 5G wireless technology, jobs and economic growth

SPRINGFIELD (Heartland Newsfeed) — Governor Bruce Rauner signed Senate Bill 1451 Thursday to standardize and streamline regulation of small wireless cell facilities, paving the way for 5G wireless and other technology in Illinois. “This legislation sends a strong, competitive message that Illinois is open for business. We want to make Illinois a leader in wireless technology. We are working to grow jobs and our economy and set our community up for future success,” Rauner said. Small cells are lower-profile wireless […]

todayApril 13, 2018 39

Business & Lifestyle

Trump orders examination of USPS operations, finances

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- President Donald Trump has formed a new task force to examine the operations model of the U.S. Postal Service, in view of mounting financial losses. Trump signed an executive order Thursday to form the panel, days after he blasted online retailer Amazon for making the USPS its "delivery boy." The order said a decline in first-class mail volume, coupled with legal mandates that force the USPS to incur substantial and inflexible costs, resulted in a deficit where revenues can no […]

todayApril 13, 2018 47

Capital Area Region

Shared parenting bill passes on second committee vote, moves to House floor

SPRINGFIELD (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Family courts across Illinois may have to adapt to a new evidence-based form of shared parenting as part of divorce proceedings, should a proposed piece of legislation become law. House Bill 4113, which was filed Oct. 12, 2017 by Rep. La Shawn K. Ford (D-Chicago), would amend the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act to include recognition that the involvement of both parents for equal time is in the best interests of the child. The bill’s […]

todayApril 12, 2018 36

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