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State Route 72 is closed due to down trees and utility lines. Crews are monitoring the location until AT&T can arrive. 

Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes launched his campaign for governor Wednesday by proposing a ‘progressive’ income tax that would more than double the rate paid by millionaires. Hynes’ plan would change the state’s income tax from a flat 3 percent to one that tops out at 7 percent. … Hynes laid out a six-step plan to fix Illinois’ finances. The first leg raises the income tax on only 3 percent of the state’s residents, those making more than $200,000 a year, he said.

Don Torino, president of the Bergen County Audubon Society, leads a group through the Meadowlands on a birdwatching tour of Richard W. DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst in January 2018. Torino leads Meadowlands tours twice a month. (Photo: Tariq Zehawi/NorthJersey.com)

In recent years, international buyers made up more than 40% of the Miami/Dade market, Mr. Shuffield said. “That is now down to more than 30% because of decreasing currency values and unstable politics” in Latin and South American countries like Brazil, Venezuela and Mexico.

Taibbi accused the press of covering the Mueller investigation not as a “neutral fact-finding mission” but as something closer to “religious allegory, with Mueller cast as the hero sent to slay the monster.”

"Umbrella plant (Darmera peltata) is a perfect waterside plant with clusters of star-shaped pink or white flowers, followed by umbrella-like leaves on long stems. There’s also a sweet miniature bulrush (actually a reed mace) called Typha minima, ideal for small ponds, which has slender, grass-like stems and lollipop-like brown pokers in summer," suggests Paula.

Netflix is still in the business of saving shows canceled elsewhere, having rescued both Lucifer and Designated Survivor this season. To keep doing that while at the same time preventing a show they don’t want anymore from moving to a willing new home seems petty and small-time, rather than the actions of the biggest name in television.

"Building a pond in your garden is a brilliant way of bringing a whole other group of plants and animals into your garden. A healthy pond will quickly fill with invertebrates like water boatmen, pond snails and dragonfly larvae, as well as frogs and newts," tells Emma Tuckey, London Wildlife Trust, Nature Reserve Manager to Country Living.

Inevitably, some plants will have to be installed at less-than-ideal planting times. “I’ve been working in botanical gardens for a long time now, and we never hit the ideal planting times,” Columbus says. “I just chuckle. We’ll adjust.”

Dana Hawley of Virginia Tech said, “More and more, we see that humans are interacting less with nature and that more of our wildlife are being restricted to areas where there are humans around. Looking at how humans react to and manage wildlife in their own backyards is very important for the future of wildlife conservation and for understanding human well-being as the opportunities for people to interact with wildlife become more restricted to backyard settings.”

Concerns over how the young warm-latitude raptor would survive the winter turned out to be well-founded. In mid-January, after the second of two snowstorms, the hawk was found in a park with severe frostbite on its legs. 

The fact is that Encarnacion and Jay Bruce don’t fit what the Mariners are doing and could be dealt at any time along with other veterans. The Mariners hope that some of these rookies we’re watching in February and March are knocking on the big-league door in June and July.