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Credit Google Maps The northern Indiana utility NIPSCO has announced it will shut down half of it’s R.M. Schahfer coal plant in Wheatfield by the end of this year. That’s about two years earlier than when the whole plant is expected to shut down in 2023. Nick Meyer is the vice president of state communications for NiSource — NIPSCO’s parent company. He said the reason behind closing half of Schahfer early is the same reason the utility decided to shutter all of its coal plants and move ...

Photographer Nick Meyer talks to us about his new book The Local, a personal reckoning with the realities of his hometown in Western Massachusetts.

Ash from Indianas coal-burning power plants is contaminating groundwater across the state, rendering it unsafe to drink. But unlike some other states, Indiana is not requiring utility companies to remove the toxic ash from leaky pits. Indiana has more than 80 pits holding the cancer-causing coal byproduct. Thats more than any other state in America. The vast majority of them are unlined, in contact with groundwater and at risk of being washed into rivers or streams because they sit in floodpl...

She spent nearly 7 years in the citys legal department ROCKFORD — Lafakeria Vaughn, an assistant city attorney for the city of Rockford, has been appointed the new Civil Bureau chief for the Winnebago County States Attorneys Office. State’s Attorney J. Hanley made the announcement Thursday. Vaughn worked for nearly seven years as an attorney in the citys legal department, where she prosecuted city ordinance violations, litigated small claims cases, foreclosure petitions, property tax app...

Matthew Murphy The original cast will take part in the live production to be produced and financed by eOne as Broadway remains dark amid the pandemic. Entertainment One is set to produce and finance a live filming of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Come From Away. As New York Citys theater district remains dark amid the pandemic, the Broadway cast will reprise their roles in the live capture set for May 2021, ahead of a planned September 2021 release. Come From Away tells the true sto...

Come From Away Plans Live Filmed Version of Broadway Musical Rebecca Rubin, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail While Broadway remains dark, Entertainment One is bringing the musical “Come From Away” to audiences at home. The company is producing and financing a live stage recording of the Tony Award-winning Broadway show, with plans for a September 2021 release. The filmed version, which will be recorded at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in May, will feature cast members from the Broadway pro...

Jan 18, 2021 For the past two years, Liquid Trucking’s plans for growth have been stunted by unforeseen events that lend credence to a centuries-old warning in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “Beware the Ides of March.” In March of 2019, heavy rains in Nebraska and other Midwestern states caused flooding of the Missouri River and its tributaries. Faced with imminent danger, the owners of Liquid Trucking had 12 hours to evacuate the property near the Platte river in Plattsmouth, Neb....

>> its a privilege to speak about my book you. let me begin by asking, whats more powerful in shaping our views? narrative or argument? heres an argument against abortion. by the end of the first trimester fetuses have brain waves, five fingers on each hand, a stomach, functioning kidneys, they have an operational heart, fingerprint. each year 1.6 million abortions are performed and 91%, 1,466,000 are performed in the first trimester. has an antiabortion narrative. james was 16. she go...