News headlines for the morning of September 1, 2017
- Students at Augustana College will once again try to tackle a lead exposure problem in Scott County. Lead paint was federally outlawed in 1978, but people living in homes built before then are at risk of exposure.
- A haze that covered the Quad Citiesyesterday evening was smoke from wildfires in Montana and Canada, according to the Quad-City Times.
- The State of Illinois now has a new method for distributing money to schools after a month-long political impasse that held up education funding.
- There's a lot of competition for one seat on the Davenport City Council. By yesterday's filing deadline, five people had filed to run in the 6th Ward.
- The Midwest League will end its regular season this weekend, and prepare for the playoffs to begin next week. The Quad Cities River Bandits have qualified for the postseason, but not the Clinton Lumber Kings.