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Wednesday, September 6, 2017

News headlines for the morning of September 6, 2017

  • After working for the Obama campaign and other democratic candidates, a Rock Falls man is knocking on doors to get his own name on a ballot. Sean Sanders is running for state representative in Illinois' 71st District.

  • Illinois government has made little progress in paying off overdue bills. Even after two months will a full budget in place, the state owes more than $15 billion.

  • Heated rhetoric between the United States and North Korea has Iowa's senior senator calling for stranger ties with U.S. allies in Asia. Republican Chuck Grassley says the Trump Administration's threat to cut off trade with countries doing business with North Korea only ratchets up the tension.