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Wind chill advisory active until Sunday evening

ST. LOUIS (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Dangerously cold conditions will be present this weekend going into next week, according to an advisory and subsequent warning issued the National Weather Service in St. Louis at 10:59 a.m. Saturday morning. A wind chill advisory is in effect until noon on Tuesday, January 2. A wind chill warning is in effect until noon on New Year's Day, Monday, January 1. Dangerously cold wind chills can be expected, with the coldest being expected on Sunday […]

todayDecember 30, 2017 24

Business & Lifestyle

Proof standardized testing doesn’t work? 64% of students in Pleasant Plains fail annual tests, 59% fail English

PLEASANT PLAINS (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Academic results data released recently reveals 36 percent of Pleasant Plains Middle School students are considered on track for the next grade level, according to a Heartland Newsfeed analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card. The end-of-year tests known as the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, are administered to third- through eighth-graders in Illinois, testing them in reading and math based on Common Core standards. A composite score […]

todayDecember 28, 2017 17

Business & Lifestyle

Store closures rocked retail in 2017, with 2018 bound to be no different

NEW YORK (Heartland Newsfeed/CNBC) -- A larger-than-average slew of retail bankruptcies and stores being shuttered rocked the industry this year, making headlines and dragging even some of the better-performing companies such as Home Depot, TJ Maxx and Costco down with the dismal news. So far in 2017, 6,985 store closure announcements have been made, according to a tracker from FGRT (formerly Fung Global Retail & Technology). That's up more than 200 percent from a year ago, based on the firm's […]

todayDecember 27, 2017 126

Editorial

We’re back online! Here’s why we were offline

We're glad you're back with us! We also appreciate your patience since we experienced some issues late Saturday night. Here is what happened (and will try to keep this simple): In the period of three hours in the late hours of Saturday night, we were getting slammed with notifications from our server monitoring software that two of our databases which handle the majority of the website's content were crashing, citing that they had ran out of memory. After roughly 200 […]

todayDecember 24, 2017 4

Ballot Access News

Green Party’s Jill Stein under investigation for possible Russia collusion, cites NY Post report

WASHINGTON (Heartland Newsfeed) -- The Senate is reportedly probing former presidential candidate Jill Stein for possible collusion with Russia. The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Monday that the Stein probe was one of two investigations about Russian collusion that his panel is pursuing, according to The Washington Post. Stein dined with Russian president Vladimir Putin during a 2015 Moscow event that was also attended by Trump’s former national security adviser Mike Flynn. Politico reported in Sept. that Stein […]

todayDecember 19, 2017 16

Business & Lifestyle

Skillicorn calls for end to Illinois Municipal League annual conference

EAST DUNDEE (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Responding to a Daily Herald report detailing the cost to taxpayers, Rep. Allen Skillicorn (R-East Dundee) recently called for an end to the Illinois Municipal League’s annual conference, according to a release from the lawmaker. The conference, which took place from Sept. 21-23 at the Hilton Chicago, according to the event program, featured more than 50 sessions for municipal workers in fields ranging from finance and management to public safety and economic development. According to […]

todayDecember 19, 2017 11

Business & Lifestyle

Ethics probe triggers resignation of Chicago schools chief

CHICAGO (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Forrest Claypool, chief executive of Chicago Public Schools, recently resigned following the release of a damning report filed by the district's office of the inspector general. The report, cited in a recent Chicago Tribune story, concluded that Claypool and the district's general counsel Ronald Marmer blatantly violated the district's code of ethics by improperly utilizing "contract management authority," citing work that was done by Jenner Block. Jenner Block had a prior business relationship with Marmer and […]

todayDecember 19, 2017 14

Ballot Access News

Libertarian Party: Private-sector sexual misconduct punished while politicians let off easy

WASHINGTON (Heartland Newsfeed/Libertarian National Committee) -- Sexual misconduct has long been a problem in both the public and private spheres, but today there is a stark difference between intolerance of sexual misconduct in the world of business and tolerance in the world of politics. Private-sector organizations have begun taking decisive action to cut ties with sexual predators, while political institutions continue to tolerate and even celebrate them. Here are some examples of how private-sector businesses deal with allegations of sexual misconduct: […]

todayDecember 19, 2017 13

Business & Lifestyle

France wants G20 nations to discuss Bitcoin regulation

PARIS (Heartland Newsfeed) -- France Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire is planning to push for a discussion on Bitcoin regulation at a G20 summit in 2018. Citing a news reports from LCI, Reuters reported yesterday that Le Maire said in an interview that he will ask Argentina, which is set to take control of the G20 presidency, to put Bitcoin on the agenda during an upcoming gathering in April. Le Maire was quoted as saying: “I am going to propose […]

todayDecember 18, 2017 13

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