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  • 'Bikers Against Predators' Hunts Down Pedophiles in the Heartland, Leading to Multiple Arrests

    01/19/2024 6:41:24 PM PST · by Red Badger · 10 replies
    Red State ^ | | 9:42 PM on January 18, 2024 | By Jeff Charles
    In a series of events that has garnered attention from multiple communities in the Heartland, an organization of do-gooders has demonstrated an out-of-the-box approach to stopping pedophiles. The group, which is called “Bikers Against Predators,” has been conducting operations to catch sex offenders. The organization, which is comprised of motorcyclists, employs various methods to hunt these individuals down and aid law enforcement in apprehending them. Recently, the group proved instrumental in catching three different suspects. There are open investigations in three Heartland communities after an organization held operations to catch sex offenders in each town. The group “Bikers Against Predators”...
  • Midwest, Great Lakes among 2024’s hottest housing markets: Zillow

    01/10/2024 10:43:53 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 39 replies
    The Hill ^ | 01/10/2024 | Tara Suter
    The Midwest and the Great Lakes regions will have some of the hottest housing markets in the U.S. this year, according to Zillow. The real estate marketplace predicted Buffalo, N.Y., to be the “nation’s hottest housing market in 2024,” with Cincinnati; Columbus, Ohio; Indianapolis; and Providence, R.I., rounding out the top five. “These should stand out as strong in a housing market still buffeted by low inventory and relatively high mortgage rates and prices,” Zillow added in its report released last week. Other cities included in Zillow’s top 10 projected hottest housing markets for 2024 include Atlanta; Charlotte, N.C.; Cleveland,...
  • Upstate NY to see up to 12 inches of snow, Jersey and Conn. 6 inches as Midwest gears up for possible blizzard conditions

    01/05/2024 2:08:56 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 58 replies
    NY Post ^ | 01/05/2024 | Alyssa Guzman
    Upstate New York is bracing for up to a foot of snow this weekend as New Jersey and Connecticut could see 6 inches and the Midwest gears up for possible blizzard conditions. The Capital Region is preparing to dig out as 8 to 12 inches of snow is about to pile high in the Albany area as the storm system moves through. Six inches or more are possible in parts of Connecticut and New Jersey, especially in Sussex and Morristown, Fox Weather’s Marissa Lautenbacher told The Post Friday. However, coastal regions like New York City and Long Island should keep...
  • Horowitz: The blackout of the Fargo terrorist attack obscures a broader concern in small-town America

    07/26/2023 5:24:07 PM PDT · by Twotone · 14 replies
    The Blaze ^ | June 25, 2023 | Daniel Horowitz
    We fought endless wars overseas for two decades, only to bring in record numbers of refugees from the very places from which we sought to protect ourselves. Thanks to mass Middle East migration as the only remaining legacy of the trillions of dollars pumped into the “Global War on Terror,” America’s heartland is just as vulnerable to Islamic terror as New York and Los Angeles. Believe it or not, there was an Islamic terror attack in Fargo, North Dakota, earlier this month, one that local law enforcement believes could have resulted in countless casualties instead of the one police officer...
  • Monster supercell tornado rips through Midwest killing two and flattening Oklahoma town bringing hail the size of tennis balls and leaving trail of devastation with 20,000 still without power

    04/20/2023 3:08:45 AM PDT · by CFW · 12 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 4/20/23 | Will Potter
    A devastating 'supercell' tornado system has ripped through Kansas and Oklahoma, killing at least two people while levelling entire homes and leaving a trail of destruction across multiple counties. The terrifying twisters tore through the Midwest Wednesday evening, while parts of Nebraska, Missouri, Texas and Iowa have also been placed under tornado and severe thunderstorm watches. Tennis-ball sized hail and torrential winds cut across the region, leaving approximately 20,000 people in the dark after the storms downed powerlines.
  • Another oil refinery, in Ohio, catches fire and has to be shut down

    09/23/2022 10:43:38 AM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 31 replies
    Disaster News ^ | 9/22/22 | Ethan Huff
    The BP-Husky Toledo refinery in Oregon, Ohio, has been “safely shut down” after a fire reportedly broke out for no apparent reason. A BP spokesperson told Reuters that the company suspects “leaking fumes from a crude unit may have caused the ignition in another unit at the facility.” This same person added that workers at the facility had just “finished a maintenance turnaround” a few weeks prior after having been offline for some time. (Related: Remember back in the summer when several Texas oil refineries shut down under similarly suspicious circumstances?) According to reports, the BP-Husky Toledo refinery processes up...
  • Rolling blackouts possible in Indiana, and Columbus, due to extreme heat

    06/14/2022 4:39:25 PM PDT · by Phoenix8 · 45 replies
    The Republic ^ | June 13, 2022 | Andy East
    COLUMBUS, Ind. — An energy grid operator has warned Indiana and other Midwestern states of the possibility of rolling blackouts this summer as extreme heat combines with a projected power capacity shortage and increased demand. Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), an independent, not-for-profit organization that delivers electric power across 15 U.S. states — including Indiana — and the Canadian province of Manitoba, is warning that power-generating capacity is struggling to keep up with demand, according to Bartholomew County REMC.
  • Trump Takes the Midwest

    11/17/2021 6:04:20 AM PST · by Kaslin · 12 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | November 17, 2021 | John and Andy Schlafly
    Trump has opened up a breathtaking 11-point lead over Biden in Iowa, expanding on the 8-point margin by which he defeated Biden there last year. The Des Moines Register poll confirms that this key battleground state in the Midwest has turned solidly Republican, thanks to Trump. The DMR poll, long considered the gold standard for the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses every four years, found that Trump is ahead by 76% to 15% among evangelical likely voters, 64% to 26% among rural likely voters, and 59% to 31% among likely voters without a college degree. Only 33% of Iowa adults say they...
  • Fed Up With Blue State Tyranny, Half My Extended Family Moved To South Dakota

    11/16/2021 8:13:24 AM PST · by Kaslin · 36 replies
    The Federalist ^ | November 16, 2021 | Georgi Boorman
    Fatigued from the punishing and arbitrary restrictions, we saw South Dakota like a man dying of thirst sees a glass of water.I shut the car door and sighed. “I don’t want to go back,” I said, stuffing my mask in the cupholder. We were about to get back on the interstate as we wound our way through Montana toward Washington state, our home. It wasn’t a decision, just how I felt. But saying it out loud set us on an unstoppable course. Just a few months later, we were traveling back across the I-90 to the Black Hills of South...
  • Rare November blizzard warning issued in midwest

    11/11/2021 12:42:23 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 41 replies
    The Hill ^ | 11/11/2021 | OLAFIMIHAN OSHIN
    Millions of people living in the Midwestern region of the U.S. received their first blizzard warnings of the season on Thursday, NBC News reported. Parts of northeastern South Dakota and western Minnesota were issued blizzard warnings on Thursday. Both areas are part of “Blizzard Alley,” according to NBC News. November blizzards are a rarity; the last time there was a blizzard warning in November was in 2016 in South Dakota, NBC News noted.
  • Unhappy with prices, ranchers look to build own meat plants

    10/19/2021 8:09:02 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 16 replies
    CBS 2 Iowa ^ | 10/16/2021 | SCOTT McFETRIDGE
    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Like other ranchers across the country, Rusty Kemp for years grumbled about rock-bottom prices paid for the cattle he raised in central Nebraska, even as the cost of beef at grocery stores kept climbing. He and his neighbors blamed it on consolidation in the beef industry stretching back to the 1970s that resulted in four companies slaughtering over 80% of the nation’s cattle, giving the processors more power to set prices while ranchers struggled to make a living. Federal data show that for every dollar spent on food, the share that went to ranchers and...
  • Zuckerberg’s $400 Million Donation May Have Been Advised By Former Obama Campaign Manager (ELECTION THEFT)

    10/23/2020 11:08:41 PM PDT · by Mount Athos · 13 replies
    David Harris Jr .com ^ | Caitlin Bassett
    Zuckerberg’s recent donation of $400 million has been thrown into greater controversy with the revelation that his foundation’s lead in policy and advocacy formerly worked as the campaign manager and senior advisor to former President Obama. David Plouffe was hired in 2017 to lead policy and advocacy work at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), a charity founded in 2015 by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan “to accelerate progress in Education, Justice & Opportunity and Science.” Plouffe’s background includes extensive involvement as a policy leader in the Obama campaigns and organizations like Uber, CZI, and most recently...
  • Ancient Native Americans were among the world’s first coppersmiths (Wisconsin)

    03/21/2021 8:16:36 AM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 35 replies
    Sciencemag.org ^ | March 19, 2021 | David Malakof
    About 8500 years ago, hunter-gatherers living beside Eagle Lake in Wisconsin hammered out a conical, 10-centimeter-long projectile point made of pure copper. The finely crafted point, used to hunt big game, highlights a New World technological triumph—and a puzzle. A new study of that artifact and other traces of prehistoric mining concludes that what is known as the Old Copper Culture emerged, then mysteriously faded, far earlier than once thought. The dates show that early Native Americans were among the first people in the world to mine metal and fashion it into tools. They also suggest a regional climate shift...
  • Protester Sentenced for Being in Possession of Molotov Cocktail

    02/06/2021 5:24:26 PM PST · by ransomnote · 18 replies
    justice.gov ^ | January 20, 2021 | U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Nebraska
    United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Steven M. Fitch, age 25, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, by United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher for being in unlawful possession of a destructive device. Judge Buescher sentenced Fitch to 30 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. Once Fitch is released from prison, he will begin a three-year term of supervised release. An investigation conducted by the Omaha Police Department, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms determined...
  • Trump Is Doing Better In Michigan And Wisconsin Than Polls Suggest

    10/28/2020 8:58:27 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 60 replies
    The Federalist ^ | October 28, 2020 | Chris Bedford and John Daniel Davidson
    A week-long trip through these Midwest battleground states talking with ordinary people convinced us the polls aren't telling the full story. There’s something afoot in Michigan and Wisconsin. If you believe the polls, former Vice President Joe Biden is set to win both these states in November—battlegrounds President Donald Trump narrowly carried in 2016, and can ill afford to lose this time around.Some pollsters say Biden is ahead by as much as 17 points in Wisconsin and a dozen points in Michigan, suggesting the Democrats have rebuilt their so-called “blue wall” in the industrial Midwest. If that’s true, the president’s...
  • Historic August 2020 derecho destroyed over 1 million acres of crops, U.S.

    08/18/2020 9:58:54 AM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 64 replies
    watchers.com ^ | 8/17/2020 | Teo Blaskovic
    A devastating derecho ripped through several Midwest states on August 10, 2020, leaving a path of destruction, more than 1.5 million customers without power, and more than 404 600 hectares (1 million acres) of destroyed or damaged crops. Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini described the event as one of the worst weather events of 2020 in the United States. The storm ripped through the heart of the Corn Belt - a region of the Midwestern United States that has dominated corn production in the country since the 1850s, with winds gusts up to 180 km/h (112 mph), causing...
  • Midwestern cities continue to lose population. Two of the fastest-shrinking are in Illinois.

    06/12/2020 10:00:25 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 31 replies
    Chicago Tribune via MSN ^ | 06/12/2020 | By Patrick M. O'Connell, Chicago Tribune
    Decatur, in central Illinois about 40 miles east of Springfield, has lost 7.1% of its population since the 2010 census, according to the recently released 2019 population estimates. That drop is the third-largest percentage loss in the U.S. among cities with a population of 50,000 or more. Rockford comes in at No. 15 on that list. The northern Illinois city, the fifth-largest in the state with an estimated 145,609 residents, has lost 5% of its population during that nine-year period. Rockford’s total population loss of 7,676 people over the last decade places it ninth nationwide among large cities, according to...
  • Joe Biden Pledges To Eliminate Tens Of Thousands Of Midwest Jobs by Killing the Keystone XL Pipeline

    05/21/2020 7:46:58 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 10 replies
    Hotair ^ | 05/21/2020 | Jazz Shaw
    While tens of millions of Americans are wringing their hands and wondering whether or not their jobs are ever going to come back, Joe Biden is promising to eliminate the employment prospects of tens of thousands of additional people. How? By “killing” the Keystone XL pipeline. Assuming such a feat is even possible without risking the government losing a very expensive lawsuit, the downstream impact of such a decision would produce plenty of totally avoidable disasters for people in multiple states. And at the same time, at least under current conditions in the oil market, it would have almost...
  • Midwest Governors Announce Partnership to Coordinate Reopening Economies

    04/17/2020 9:48:43 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 38 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 04/17/2020 | Isabel Van Brugen
    A bipartisan group of governors from seven states announced on April 16 that they would form a Midwest regional partnership to coordinate efforts to reopen their states’ economies amid the CCP virus pandemic. The partnership will see the governors exchanging expert data and advice to reopen their economies in a way that “prioritizes our workers’ health,” the governors said in a statement Thursday. It includes Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-Ill.), Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.), Gov. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio), Gov. Eric Holcomb (R-Ind.), Gov. Andy Beshear (D-Ky.), Gov. Tony Evers (D-Wis.) and Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.). “We look forward to working with...
  • Will Trump Steal a March on Democrats in the Midwest?

    08/08/2019 6:37:13 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 5 replies
    prospect ^ | 08/08/2019 | Steve Rosenthal
    Memo to the Democrats who claim their presidential candidates are moving too far to the left to beat Donald Trump: Stop worrying and get to work. Before and after each of the last two sets of Democratic debates, I read countless opinion pieces and heard numerous pundits arguing that Democrats are moving too far left and handing Trump re-election on a golden platter. In an unprecedented Democratic nominating process, in which a whopping 24 candidates are competing to take on Trump, it’s only natural that they are looking for ways to separate themselves from the pack. Most of them have...