Carlos Martinez agrees to five-year, $51 million deal

February 1, 2017 By Leave a Comment
USA Today Photo

USA Today Photo

ST. LOUIS, MO – (Rick Hummel St. Louis Post Dispatch- Click to read the full article. Here is an excerpt.) The concern about whether there would be any bad feelings resultant from Carlos Martinez’s salary arbitration hearing will be a moot point. There won’t be any hearing next week. The Post-Dispatch learned Wednesday night from sources close to the situation that Martinez has agreed to a five-year contract worth some $51 million and that the deal, which has some options, will be announced Thursday morning at a press conference at Busch Stadium. & General manager John Mozeliak could not be reached for any confirmation nor was there any from Martinez’s representation but a source said that Martinez took his physical on Wednesday. & Martinez, the Cardinals’ top starter with a 16-9 record and 3.04 earned run average last season, had been seeking $4.25 million as a first-time arbitration-eligible player with the Cardinals offering $3.9 million, with a hearing having been slated for next week.

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Trump honors fallen Navy SEAL during unannounced trip

February 1, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Trump and his daughter Ivanka after exiting Marine One at Dover Air Force Base Today (AP Photo)

Trump and his daughter Ivanka after exiting Marine One at Dover Air Force Base Today (AP Photo)

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AP) (Julie Pace – Please click to read the whole story…here is an excerpt… — Assuming the somber duties of commander in chief, President Donald Trump made an unannounced trip Wednesday to honor the returning remains of a U.S. Navy SEAL killed in a weekend raid in Yemen. Chief Special Warfare Operator William “Ryan” Owens, a 36-year-old from Peoria, Illinois, was the first known U.S. combat casualty since Trump took office less than two weeks ago. More than half a dozen militant suspects were also killed in the raid on an al-Qaida compound and three other U.S. service members were wounded. More than a dozen civilians were also killed in the operation, including the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical cleric and U.S. citizen who was targeted and killed by a drone strike in 2011.

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BREAKING: Senate confirms Rex Tillerson as secretary of state

February 1, 2017 By Leave a Comment
New Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in the Senate conformation hearings

New Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in the Senate conformation hearings

WASHINGTON DC – (Guy Taylor- Washington Times Click to read the whole story here is an excerpt.) The Senate voted Wednesday afternoon to confirm Rex Tillerson as the nation’s 69th secretary of state, officially making the former Exxon Mobil CEO America’s top diplomat and chief foreign policy adviser to President Trump. In a 56-43 vote, Republicans picked up three Democratic votes to pierce the minority’s hoped-for united front against Mr. Trump’s unconventional nominee: Sens. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Mark R. Warner of Virginia, all of whom face re-election next year. Democratic-leaning independent Sen. Angus S. King Jr. of Maine also voted to advance Mr. Tillerson’s nomination. & Officials said Mr. Tillerson, who had an extended lunch meeting with Mr. Trump Wednesday afternoon, would be sworn in during a private ceremony. He is not expected to appear at State Department headquarters in Foggy Bottom until Thursday or Friday.

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Sen. Jeff Sessions Wins Senate Committee Approval for Attorney General Post

February 1, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has been approved at the Senate confirmation hearings level, being grilled during the meetings. US News and World Report photo

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has been approved at the Senate confirmation hearings level, being grilled during the meetings. US News and World Report photo

WASHINGTON, DC- (Erik Ortiz – NBC News – Click to read the full story – Here is an excerpt -) A Senate panel voted Wednesday morning to advance the nomination of Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions as U.S. attorney general — a day after Democrats clashed with Republicans over the future of the Department of Justice. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Sessions’ nomination along party lines, 11-9, sending it to the full Senate for confirmation. Sessions is expected to easily win approval by the GOP-controlled chamber. & The urgent need for an attorney general also comes after Acting Attorney General Sally Yates was fired by Trump on Monday night after she refused to direct the Justice Department to enforce his controversial immigration ban.

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A little bit of everything coming

February 1, 2017 By Leave a Comment

February 1In the five day forecast graphic above, it shows a chance for snow Saturday night.  At this time the forecast says, the event will start as rain or snow until 10p.m., change to all snow, then change to rain or snow after 4 a.m.

As you can see with the highs on Sunday, any snow we might recieve will not last long.

The next weather maker will come in on Monday or Tuesday as a very deep low pressure system will make its way across the county.  Here in Southern Illinois, at this time it looks like the low will be way off to our north,.

Thunderstorms are in the forecast during this period with highs in the 60’s.

You have a great Wednesday!

 

 

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Q&A: AFSCME starts vote on authorizing state employee strike

January 31, 2017 By Leave a Comment

AFSCMESPRINGFIELD (Doug Finke- Springfield Journal Register – Click to read the entire story – here is an excerpt) Members of the largest state employee union began voting Monday on whether to authorize a strike against the state that would be the first in the union’s history. & The vote — which will continue for at least the next three weeks — does not mean a strike will occur, but if it is approved, it would authorize the union’s bargaining committee to call a strike in the future. & Here are some questions and answers about the vote, which runs through Feb. 19. & Who can vote? “Every union member who is eligible to strike is eligible to vote,” said Anders Lindall, spokesman for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31. “We want everyone to vote.”

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Sanctuary State’ Bill Moves Forward in California Senate

January 31, 2017 By Leave a Comment

California flagSACRAMENTO CA – (Darwin Bond-Graham -eastbayexpress.com click to read the whole article- Here is an excerpt)- The California State Senate’s public safety committee passed a bill today that would prohibit local law enforcement agencies from using resources to investigate, interrogate, detain, or arrest anyone due to their immigration status. Introduced by Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de Leon, SB 54 builds on other recently passed measures that supporters say are meant to build trust between law enforcement agencies and the state’s immigrant communities, and to protect immigrants who aren’t convicted of violent crimes from being arrested and deported. &

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Democrats Stall a Sessions Vote After Trump Fires Yates

January 31, 2017 By Leave a Comment
Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions in meetings with President Elect Donald Trump (Jerusalem Post photo)

Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions in meetings with President Elect Donald Trump (Jerusalem Post photo)

WASHINGTON, DC (Bloomberg, Please Click to read the entire story. Here is an excerpt.) Senate Democrats renewed an assault on Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, questioning his independence after the president fired the acting attorney general for refusing to enforce his executive order on immigration. & “Many people have doubts about whether Jeff Sessions can be that person, and the full Senate and the American people should at the very least know exactly how independent he plans to be before voting on him,” the Senate’s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer, said in a statement Monday night. & Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters Tuesday that after President Barack Obama’s “hyperpoliticized Department of Justice,” Americans want “somebody as attorney general who will enforce the law against anyone who breaks the law, and Jeff Sessions will do that.” & The anger over Trump’s handling of Yates intensified Democratic opposition to other Trump nominees. Only five have been confirmed so far, with more than a dozen nominations still awaiting votes. & Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday morning to demand that Congress quickly approve his nominees. “When will the Democrats give us our Attorney General and rest of Cabinet! They should be ashamed of themselves! No wonder D.C. doesn’t work!” Trump said.

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Fire danger elevated today- Chance of Snow Saturday night

January 31, 2017 By Leave a Comment

The fire danger is elevated today because of WNW winds today around 10 mph, dry air (the humidity is currently 47%), and dry

vegetation.  The fire danger graphic above and the reasoning was taken from KFVS-12 meteorologist Grant Dade’s Facebook page.

The high today will be in the mid 50’s with lows in the upper 30’s.  A cooling trend will start tomorrow, with highs in the mid 40’s and

Graphic by KFVS 12 meteorologist Grant Dade

Graphic by KFVS 12 meteorologist Grant Dade

lows in the mid 20’s.  Highs Thursday and Friday should be in the mid 30’s.

The snow chance on Saturday will start as rain changing to snow around 4 p.m.  It should change to all snow on Saturday night tapering off after midnight.  There is a slight chance of rain/snow on Sunday.

It is way to far out to determine how much snow we will receive.  At this time there is not ice in the forecast.

We will keep you updated on any changes in the forecast that will take place-sd

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Trump order targeting business rules leaves key regulations untouched

January 30, 2017 By Leave a Comment
U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order cutting regulations, accompanied by small business leaders at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington U.S., January 30, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order cutting regulations, accompanied by small business leaders at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington U.S., January 30, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

WASHINGTON, DC (Ayesha Rascoe and Amanda Becker, Reuter’s News Service. Please click to read the entire story. Here is an excerpt.) President Donald Trump signed an order on Monday that will seek to dramatically reduce federal regulations, but the policy will not apply to most of the financial reform rules introduced by the Obama administration. Trump’s latest executive action will require that agencies cut two existing regulations for every new rule introduced and it will set an annual cap on the cost of new regulations. For the rest of fiscal 2017, the cap will require that the cost of any additional regulations be completely offset by undoing existing rules. But, the move does not cover independent agencies that crafted many of the rules required by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the White House said.

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