Johnston superintendent finalists announced | The Des Moines Register | desmoinesregister.com

Mr. Houselog still looking for another job.

….The next superintendent of the approximately 6,700-student district northwest of Des Moines will take over for current Superintendent Clay Guthmiller, 62, after he retires June 30…..

The school board released the list of candidates to The Des Moines Register on Thursday.

• Michael Houselog, superintendent of the Belvidere Community Unit School District in Belvidere, Ill., oversees a $92.5 million budget, according to a news release from the Johnston school district. Houselog’s district includes two high schools, two middle schools, five elementary schools and a magnet school.

• Corey Lunn, superintendent of Stillwater Area Public Schools in Stillwater, Minn. Lunn oversees a $100 million budget, an early childhood family center, nine elementary schools, two junior high schools, two middle schools and one high school.

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New health insurance marketplaces signing up few uninsured Americans, two surveys find - The Washington Post

 

Only one in 10 uninsured people who qualify for private plans through the new marketplaces enrolled as of last month, one of the surveys shows. The other found that about half of uninsured adults have looked for information on the online exchanges or planned to look.

…. One of the surveys, by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., shows that among people who are uninsured and do not intend to get a health plan through one of the exchanges, the biggest factor is that they believe they cannot afford it.

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Belvidere Daily Republican: Candlewick Lake Watershed plan to be finished by June 1

March 4, 2014

By Bob Balgemann

October 2012, the Candlewick Lake Association Board of Directors began pursuing the possibility of getting a planning grant through the Clean Water Act. The goal was to benefit the body of water known as Candlewick Lake as well as everything else in the watershed, including Boone Lake and Beaver Creek.

More than one year later, in December 2013, the $83,333 planning grant was approved. Sixty percent, or $50,000, would come from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with 40 percent, or $33,333, coming from Candlewick Lake through resident dues.

Now Candlewick Lake has received preliminary approval for an $80,000 implementation grant, again with a 60-40 split, to move ahead with yet-to-be-named projects aimed at improving the watershed.

Consultant Olson said the hope is to have a project ready for implementation this spring, with others to follow.

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Report: Exelon Warns Ill. Legislators of Possible Nuclear Plant Closures at Byron, Quad Cities and Clinton -

 

Citing off-the-record interviews and documents circulating in the state legislature, Crain's Chicago Business reported Monday that the Byron, Quad Cities and Clinton plants are at risk of closure. In addition to an abundance of natural gas holding down wholesale power prices, periods of excess wind generation can drastically cut spot prices and force reactors in the region to operate at a loss. Similar market conditions caused Dominion to close its Kewaunee plant in Wisconsin last year.

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March 6, 2014 OPEN HOUSE at Belvidere Tollway Oasis

Thirteen Workers Exposed to Radiation at New Mexico Waste Dump - NBC News.com

 

The deep underground waste dump has been shut down since the leak occurred.

The source of the leak has not yet been determined, but the DOE said a plan was in place to go back underground into the waste facility and systematically take readings and observations to determine what specifically happened on Feb. 14.

“Once the source of the contamination is found, we’ll lay out a plan on how to mitigate it,” Franco said.

Higher radiation levels have been detected in the air near the plant, but officials say the readings are not high enough to be considered a public health threat.

 

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U.S. Senate candidate Jim Oberweis got 11 speeding tickets - chicagotribune.com

By Katherine Skiba and Kim Geiger, Tribune reporters

U.S. Senate candidate Jim Oberweis, who cites his successful push to raise Illinois' speed limit as the top accomplishment of his first year as a state lawmaker, has been ticketed for speeding 11 times since 1988, according to public records.

Two of the speeding tickets — both for driving at least 20 miles over the limit in a 40 mph zone — were issued in 2012, the year he won a seat in the Illinois Senate.

Also in 2012, he was cited for running a red light in North Aurora and for disobeying a stop sign in Aurora. But the stop sign citation was amended to a violation involving his auto's "signal lamps and signal devices."

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