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From Pinned to Powerful: Joe Sapp’s Relentless Drive Lands Him in M-S Hall of Fame

4o M-S Schools Foundation 2025 Hall of Fame Class Kyle Kimme     1997Doug Parrett     1969Joe Sapp     2003Wendy Wagner Pierce     2001 Induction date: Friday, Sept.19, 2025 By FRED KRONER fred@mahometnews.com Many ultimate success stories didn’t start out with burgeoning promise. Mahomet-Seymour graduate Joe Sapp can vouch for that statement. One of four […]

State of Illinois

Illinois seeks to prevent feds from tying funding for states to immigration enforcement

by Ben Szalinski, Capitol News Illinois May 13, 2025 Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and 19 other Democratic attorneys general filed a pair of lawsuits Tuesday against Trump administration policies designed to block federal funding to states that don’t carry out U.S. immigration enforcement. According to the lawsuits, recently enacted […]

Federal

FEMA Chief Fired After Opposing Trump Plan to Eliminate Disaster Agency, Days Before Hurricane Season

Cameron Hamilton, the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), was abruptly dismissed on Thursday, less than a month before the start of hurricane season. The firing follows Hamilton’s public opposition to the Trump administration’s proposals to significantly reduce or even eliminate FEMA, an agency responsible for coordinating […]