The Southern Region of Nutrien recently attended a training session at Rend Lake College’s Agronomy Innovation Center, provided by Syngenta. The training covered machines and applications for agricultural spray application, including mixing, cleaning, and chemicals. The partnership with Syngenta allowed Nutrien to upskill its current agricultural employees and encourage a pipeline of students for the future workforce.
Uplifting agriculture industry with future-focused training at RLC
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Buffalo Bills’ Damar Hamlin released from the hospital
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Bills safety Damar Hamlin was released from a Buffalo hospital on Wednesday, more than a week after he went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated during a game at Cincinnati, after his doctors said they completed a series of tests.
Daily Hope: How God Uses Grief to Help You Grow
January 12, 2023 By Leave a Comment
Grief, loss, and pain are inevitable parts of life. But did you know that God uses these things to help you grow? He does it in three ways.
Turnover and change are backdrop as new General Assembly is sworn in, despite continued Democratic dominance
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SPRINGFIELD — Every two years, when a new Illinois General Assembly is inaugurated, the leadership offers rhetoric filled with hope, bipartisanship and a message of unity in which both political parties promise to work together for the state’s residents.
NFL 2023 Super Wild Card Weekend: Ranking every matchup in the opening round of the playoffs, from 1-6
January 12, 2023 By Leave a Comment
The race to State Farm Stadium for Super Bowl LVII is underway. The regular season is complete and now we have Super Wild Card Weekend on the horizon that features several notable matchups. Interestingly enough, each one of these head-to-heads is a rematch from a game earlier this season, marking just the fifth time that’s happened during the opening round of the postseason since the 1970 merger. We have some of the NFL’s top defense and best quarterbacks set to take the playoff stage, so they’ll be no shortage of drama.
SIU’s Javon Williams declares for NFL Draft
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SIU’s Javon Williams, one of the most decorated players in the football program’s history, announced via university news release Wednesday that he’s declared for the 2023 NFL Draft. He had a year of eligibility left
Reining in Government Spending? Let’s Get Real
January 12, 2023 By Leave a Comment
Behind the refusal of the House Republican Party’s so-called freedom caucus to vote for Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is the caucus’s skepticism that he will actually “rein in government spending.” I’ve never quite understood why all Republicans do not belong to the Freedom Caucus. If the Republican Party supports low taxes, light regulations and strong national security, why is a Freedom Caucus even necessary?
Bill O’Reilly: The Apathy Factor
January 12, 2023 By Leave a Comment
We all know people who don’t know much about history or anything else for that matter. And don’t care to know. If they cared, they would google—the easiest way to get information on the planet.
Prosecutors: Madigan told McClain that benefactors of alleged scheme ‘made out like bandits’
January 12, 2023 By Leave a Comment
(The Center Square) – Prosecutors in a case involving Michael Madigan say they have wires of the former Illinois House speaker acknowledging operatives “made out like bandits” in a scheme involving utility ComEd.
Op-Ed: Illinois Supreme Court likely to rule state legislature acted hastily in ending cash bail
January 12, 2023 By Leave a Comment
Two years ago, the Illinois legislature made a bold, politically-motivated move, voting to eliminate monetary bail, with implementation scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1 of this year. Well, that day finally arrived and the Illinois Supreme Court has wisely stepped in and is poised to announce what many of us already knew – that the lawmakers’ actions were unconstitutional.
