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No injuries after student pilot crashes plane at Aurora Municipal Airport, police say
A crash on Monday at Aurora Municipal Airport in Sugar Grove by a student pilot resulted in minor damage to an aircraft, but no injuries, according to the Aurora Police Department.
The police department said it was notified on Monday at around 12:15 p.m. of the reported crash at the airport. Officers learned that the incident involved a student pilot who had been practicing landings and whose plane came down too hard on the runway.
A notice from the Federal Aviation Administration about the incident indicates that the plane’s nose gear collapsed on landing.
The student pilot was the only occupant of the aircraft at the time, according to the police department, with an instructor observing from the ground. No injuries were reported as a result of the crash, but the hard landing caused minor damage to the aircraft, officials said.
Though one runway was temporarily affected, the airport remained open and fully operational during the response to the incident, according to police.
The FAA responded to the scene and is investigating the crash, the police department said.
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El debut de Cadillac y la historia de la F1 muestra que nuevos equipos pueden triunfar o fracasar
Por JAMES ELLINGWORTH
Cadillac podría ser el equipo nuevo mejor preparado en la historia de la Fórmula 1.
El equipo respaldado por General Motors acumuló kilómetros virtuales en simulaciones de carrera detalladas el año pasado y fue fiable en las pruebas de pretemporada con su nuevo auto, bautizado en honor a Mario Andretti, aunque es probable que esté peleando con el atribulado Aston Martin por no terminar último.
Con dos pilotos de larga trayectoria al volante, el mexicano Sergio Pérez y el finlandés Valtteri Bottas, la hora de la verdad llega como el undécimo equipo en el Gran Premio de Australia el domingo.
De una maravilla de una sola temporada a un papelón, aquí un repaso de algunas otras temporadas de debut en la historia de la F1 a las que Cadillac puede aspirar, o que debería evitar:
Ferrari (1950)
Todos empiezan en algún lugar. En la primera temporada del campeonato mundial, Ferrari era un fabricante emergente a la sombra de los gigantes italianos Alfa Romeo y Maserati. El segundo puesto de Alberto Ascari en el Gran Premio de Mónaco dejó claro que Ferrari iba en serio. José Froilán González le dio a Ferrari su primera victoria un año después y Ascari se convirtió en el primer campeón del equipo en 1952. Ferrari es el único equipo que ha participado en todas las temporadas de la F1.
Jordan (1991)
Cuando la F1 tenía tantos equipos que se necesitaba una preclasificación para recortar la parrilla, hacía falta algo especial para destacar. El jefe de equipo Eddie Jordan, quien murió el año pasado a los 76 años, era una figura de culto en la F1 por su franqueza al opinar y estridentes camisas, además de hacer debutar al futuro siete veces campeón Michael Schumacher después de que su piloto titular fuera arrestado. Schumacher se clasificó séptimo, poniendo a él y a Jordan en el mapa. El popular equipo irlandés se mantuvo en la parrilla, ganó cuatro carreras, hasta que fue vendido en 2005.
Andrea Moda (1992)
La F1 tenía equipos lentos como Life, que nunca superó la preclasificación. Tenía equipos de vida corta como Mastercard Lola, que duró una sola sesión de clasificación. Andrea Moda aún destaca. Su auto, un diseño de años atrás, se averiaba con regularidad —una vez incluso antes de salir del carril de boxes— y era irremediablemente lento. El equipo se perdió una carrera porque sus motores no llegaron y otra porque sus camiones quedaron atrapados en el tráfico; un piloto lo acusó de instalar a sabiendas una dirección dañada en su auto y, finalmente, el equipo fue excluido de la F1 a mitad de temporada.
Brawn (2009)
El cuento de hadas definitivo de la F1 comenzó cuando Honda quiso cerrar su equipo para ahorrar dinero mientras la economía mundial se desplomaba. El director del equipo, Ross Brawn, convenció a Honda de aceptar una compra por parte de la dirección por una libra. En un auto blanco y sencillo, casi sin patrocinadores, pero con una innovación decisiva del “doble difusor” que dejó a los demás equipos apresurándose a copiarla, Jenson Button ganó la primera carrera de Brawn en Australia. Contuvo a Sebastian Vettel, de Red Bull, para conquistar el campeonato en la primera y única temporada del equipo. Luego Brawn vendió su escudería a Mercedes, y desde entonces ha ganado ocho títulos más de constructores.
Haas (2016)
Los equipos estadounidenses tienen una historia irregular en la F1. El último en ganar una carrera fue Penske en 1976, mientras que USF1 ni siquiera llegó a la parrilla antes de quedarse sin dinero en 2010. Eso hizo aún más sorprendente que Haas, el siguiente participante de Estados Unidos, Haas, no solo sobreviviera en la F1, sino que celebrara un sexto y un quinto puesto en sus dos primeras carreras con Romain Grosjean al volante. Mientras Cadillac está construyendo una nueva sede en Indiana, Haas basa gran parte de sus operaciones clave en Europa, con estrechos vínculos con Ferrari y una nueva alianza con Toyota.
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Cracks appear in Trump’s MAGA base as leading figures criticize the Iran war
NEW YORK — For President Donald Trump, some of the sharpest criticism he’s faced in the early days of the Iran war has come from once-loyal media figures far more accustomed to singing his praises.
Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Matt Walsh are among those to express discontent. It’s been noticed in the White House, which has been playing defense on social media and in interviews.
To be sure, these critics are the minority of the media MAGAsphere, where Fox News’ biggest stars remain cheerleaders. But their words illustrate conservative media’s influence and how valuable it is to Trump when all runs as a well-oiled machine — and, by contrast, how much of a problem it can be if it fractures.
Israel targets Iran’s security forces and leadership as Iran presses attacks across the region
Much of the criticism has centered on Israel’s influence on Trump’s decision to go to war. Carlson, the former Fox News star who has built his own independent operation, told ABC News over the weekend that the attack was “absolutely disgusting and evil.”
“It’s hard to say this, but the United States didn’t make the decision here. Benjamin Netanyahu did,” Carlson said on his podcast, referring to the Israeli prime minister.
‘No one should have to die for a foreign country’
Kelly, another former Fox anchor gone indie, said about American casualties on her show that “no one should have to die for a foreign country.”
“I don’t think those service members died for the United States,” Kelly said. “I think they died for Iran or Israel.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s remarks prior to a Capitol Hill briefing were a flashpoint. Rubio said that Trump had given the go-ahead for the operation knowing that Israel was prepared to strike and he feared retaliation from Iran against U.S. bases in the region.
“We knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them, before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties,” Rubio said. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said that if the Trump administration had not acted, lawmakers would have wondered why.
Walsh, a Daily Wire host, wrote on X that Rubio was “flat out telling us that we’re in a war with Iran because Israel forced our hand. This is basically the worst possible thing he could have said.”
The Republican president told journalist Rachael Bade in an interview that he did not believe that the opinions of Carlson and Kelly are shared by his base of supporters. “I think that MAGA is Trump,” he said. “MAGA’s not the other two.”
Republican former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who has fashioned herself as an influencer and media figure since bitterly breaking with Trump, said on Kelly’s podcast that she was furious over the U.S. military action. “Make America Great Again,” Greene says, “was supposed to be America first, not Israel first.”
Will Trump supporters return to the fold?
Trump is probably right to think that most of his supporters will return to the fold if they’re unhappy with the Iran attack, said Jason Zengerle, author of “Hated By All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind.” Given the consistency of his views on the topic, Carlson is probably the most important of Trump’s conservative critics, Zengerle said.
“If the war does go badly, I think it strengthens the hand of someone like Tucker,” he said. “All of this is a debate about what happens after Trump is gone anyway.”
There have been cracks in Trump’s conservative media support prior to Iran, notably with the vast and sprawling narratives around the Jeffrey Epstein report. But this week’s criticism unleashed some startling internal vitriol. Ben Shapiro, of “The Daily Wire,” called Kelly “wildly inconsistent” and a coward. Elisabeth Hasselbeck denounced Kelly for her suggestion that American servicemen died for Israel. “How dare you?” Hasselbeck said Tuesday on “The View.”
Fox News’ Sean Hannity said that Carlson was “not the person I knew when he was at Fox.” Kelly denounced Hannity as a supplicant who “would never say anything other than to puff Donald Trump up.”
It’s worth remembering that most of what readers and viewers are seeing in conservative media supports Trump. Howard Polskin, publisher of The Righting newsletter, estimated Tuesday that about 95% of what he’s monitored on websites is behind the president. “Trump Stands Tall on Iran,” headlined The American Spectator.
The most popular personalities on Fox News — still the top dog among conservatives — continue to be supportive. Hannity, Brian Kilmeade and Mark Levin were among the most vociferous leading up to the attack and after. “The president has shown more courage, and this Pentagon, Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon, has executed brilliantly once again,” said Kilmeade, the “Fox & Friends” co-host.
“I think that MAGA gives him the benefit of the doubt, no question about it,” Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary during the early part of Trump’s first term, said on his podcast Tuesday. “I think he’s built up a ton of credibility with the base. … Look, you’ve got PTSD from a lot of our former leaders between Iraq and Afghanistan in particular, who only know forever wars, and so I get it. But this president has proven now twice that he knows what he’s doing.”
Criticism of war rollout draws specific White House rebuke
The podcast influencers who helped to drive many young men into Trump’s camp during the 2024 campaign have been largely quiet.
Some of Walsh’s criticism this week appeared to sting so much that it drew a specific rebuke from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“So far we’ve heard that although we killed the whole Iranian regime, this was not a regime change war,” Walsh wrote on Monday. “And although we obliterated their nuclear program, we had to do this because of their nuclear program. And although Iran was not planning any attacks on the U.S., they also might have been, depending on who you ask. And although we are not fighting this war to free the Iranian people, they are now free, or might be, depending on who seizes power, and we have no idea who that will be. The messaging on this thing is, to put it mildly, confused.”
Leavitt posted a lengthy response on X explaining Trump’s rationale. “Simply put,” she wrote, “the terrorist Iranian regime would not say yes to peace.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/04/trump-maga-iran-war/
Maple Fest set for this weekend at Fox Valley Park District’s Red Oak Nature Center
Maple Fest returns this Saturday and Sunday, March 7 and 8, at the Fox Valley Park District’s Red Oak Nature Center, 930 N. River Road in North Aurora.
Maple Fest runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, with timed sessions beginning at the top of each hour. Admission is $5 for ages 3 and up, and advance online registration is encouraged, according to a press release from the district.
Everyone age 3 and older must have a ticket for entry into a presentation time slot, organizers said. Each one-hour program begins indoors with a short presentation before guests head outside onto the trails. There, participants learn how sap is collected and transformed through a careful, time-intensive process, according to the release.
“Guests are going to learn exactly where syrup comes from,” says Christy Graser, Red Oak’s facility manager, in the release. “People make the assumption that syrup comes straight out of trees and that’s not exactly true — you have to go through a process before it goes on your pancakes and waffles. We’re going to demonstrate that process with the help of guests.”
Guests can try drilling into a tree, tapping it and then help carry sap buckets. An evaporator will be fired up onsite, illustrating the transformation from sap to syrup, organizers said.
For those looking to sample the results, refreshments will be available for purchase, including a three-sample flight featuring early- and late-season syrups from Runamok Maple, along with a whiskey barrel-aged variety.
For more information, go to the Fox Valley Park District website at https://www.foxvalleyparkdistrict.org/.
History event set at Oswego museum
The Little White School Museum in Oswego will present a multimedia history lecture on Saturday, March 7, on two of the Oswegoland Park District’s main natural areas, Saw Wee Kee and Waa Kee Sha parks.
The program, presented by museum coordinator Joe Noce, starts at noon at the museum at 72 Polk St., according to a press release about the event.
Saw Wee Kee, Waa Kee Sha and their surrounding areas have long been more than just recreation sites, and have rich histories extending back well before the earliest American settlers first arrived, the release said. Those attending will learn about the history of both parks, ranging from Native American ownership to the site of some of the region’s largest mining operations.
Registration is $5 for the program, with proceeds earmarked for the operations of the Little White School Museum. To register in advance, call the Oswegoland Park District at 630-554-1010. Walk-ins the day of the program are also welcome, according to the release.
For more information, call the museum at 630-554-2999 or email jnoce@oswegolandpd.org.
The Little White School Museum is a joint project of the Oswegoland Park District and the not-for-profit Oswegoland Heritage Association.
Sons of American Legion plan Yorkville breakfast
The Yorkville Sons of The American Legion will hold its monthly breakfast fundraiser from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, March 8, at the Yorkville American Legion, 9054 E. Veterans Parkway in Yorkville.
The buffet at the event, which is open to the public, will consist of biscuits and gravy, pancakes, scrambled eggs, potatoes, bacon, sausage, tomato juice, orange juice, milk, coffee and an omelet station, organizers said.
The cost of the breakfast is $12 for adults 18 to 54 years old, $10 for those 55 years old and older and $8 for those 6 to 17 years old, according to organizers. Children 5 years old and younger eat for free.
Jasmine Crockett concede ante James Talarico en la primaria demócrata al Senado en Texas
Por BILL BARROW
La representante demócrata por Texas Jasmine Crockett admitió el miércoles su derrota ante James Talarico en las primarias para decidir el candidato del partido al Senado.
La congresista instó al partido a unificarse detrás del legislador estatal, quien aseguró la nominación durante la noche.
“Texas está listo para volverse demócrata y debemos mantenernos unidos porque esto es más grande que cualquier persona”, declaró Crockett en un comunicado. “Se trata del futuro de los 30 millones de texanos y de encaminar de nuevo a Estados Unidos”.
La campaña de Crockett había sugerido previamente que presentaría una demanda por dificultades para votar en la primaria. Un portavoz no respondió a una pregunta sobre esos planes.
Talarico se enfrentará al ganador de la segunda vuelta republicana, ya sea el senador John Cornyn o el fiscal general del estado, Ken Paxton.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
Primary Losers: Crockett Cries ‘Disenfranchisement’ , Crenshaw Crushed
Primary Losers: Crockett Cries ‘Disenfranchisement’ , Crenshaw Crushed
Rep. Jasmine Crockett has just lost her Democratic Senate primary in Texas to Democratic state lawmaker James Talarico, who will now try to become the first Democrat in nearly 40 years to win a Senate election in Texas. He will face the Republican winner between longtime incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and Texas AG Ken Paxton.
Crockett, a racist, who says that entering the USA illegally is ‘not a crime‘ and is under FEC investigation for suspicious ActBlue donations, says she’s going to file a lawsuit challenging the results due to alleged confusion among some voters in Dallas County over where they were supposed to vote.
Speaking with supporters Tuesday night, she says that because of the confusion, “people have been disenfranchised,” and that the outcome of the race wouldn’t be known until Dallas County’s votes are counted.
As noted above, Cornyn and Paxton will advance to a runoff in the Texas Republican primary race, after neither candidate manged to receive 50% of the vote.
Crenshaw Loses
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) also lost on Tuesday in his primary bid for the GOP nomination for Texas’s 2nd Congressional District – losing to Steve Toth by 15.5 points.
Toth repeatedly described Crenshaw as a “neocon” war hawk, while Crenshaw was notably the only House Republican in Texas not endorsed by President Trump (who just made the neocons very happy bombing Iran). Crenshaw voted for the 2024 bipartisan border bill, which received criticism from some Republicans and Trump, according to the Epoch Times.
Toth was endorsed by TPUSA, and if you wondered where he stands on Iran – he’s a proud supporter of Israel and the Jewish People, and thanks Trump for protecting America from the Iranians.
Babette and I are praying for our service men and women across the world as they bravely defend our freedom.⁰⁰Thank you, President Trump for your continued leadership and bold defense of the United States of America.⁰⁰Iran seeks the destruction of the United States and must… https://t.co/vJi7leRII3
— Steve Toth (@SteveTothTX) February 28, 2026
I will proudly stand with @Israel and the Jewish People. Israel can’t wait until Iran has turned the Middle East into a nuclear wasteland. They did the right thing, the right way.
I traveled to the Embassy in Washington post October 7th and saw first hand what Hamas/Iran did to… https://t.co/YGQV8WxVFP
— Steve Toth (@SteveTothTX) June 13, 2025
In other primary news (via the Epoch Times);
North Carolina: Whatley, Cooper Win NC Senate Nominations
The Senate matchup for the general election in North Carolina has been set, with former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley and former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper set to face off in November in a race that could determine which party controls the upper congressional chamber.
Whatley won the GOP primary, while Cooper won the Democratic primary, with both easily defeating challengers.
Endorsed by Trump, Whatley ran on getting North Carolina “back on track,” helping families make ends meet, creating jobs, and improving public safety.
During his campaign, Cooper talked about affordability and a ban on congressional stock trading.
House Races for Redrawn Districts
Voters also cast votes for candidates in districts that have had their boundaries altered by the mid-decade redistricting push undertaken nationwide since Texas redrew its maps in mid 2025.
In North Carolina’s First Congressional District, Republicans selected Laurie Buckhout as their nominee on March 3, setting up a November rematch against incumbent Rep. Don Davis (D-N.C.).
The district was altered to favor Republicans, though analysts still consider the seat competitive.
In Texas’s 28th Congressional District, Democratic incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar will face Republican Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina in a district that Republicans hope to flip this year.
The competitive South Texas congressional district is one of five in the state that Texas Republicans redrew in hopes of bolstering their party’s chances of maintaining control of Congress.
Tijerina, a former Major League Baseball player who has been endorsed by Trump and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, is seen as a promising challenger in the redrawn district, which is almost 90 percent Hispanic.
In Texas’s 34th Congressional District, Trump-endorsed candidate Eric Flores defeated former Rep. Mayra Flores, setting up a match with incumbent Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas).
In 2022, Mayra Flores made headlines with a special election win in District 34 before the map was redrawn. Republicans pointed to her success as a sign of their growing strength among conservative Hispanic voters.
But after she lost to Gonzalez in 2022 and again in 2024, the party shifted toward a fresh start with a new candidate. Her opponent, Eric Flores, has gained the support of Trump and other Republican leaders.
As HeadlineUSA notes further;
Gonzales, who has said he won’t step down, entered the nation’s first big primary of 2026 under pressure from fellow House Republicans after published reports last month that alleged to show explicit text messages between him and the former staffer, who allegedly killed herself last year by lighting herself on fire.
Gonzales said in a recent social media post that he was being blackmailed and then suggested in another post that he is the target of “coordinated political attacks.”
The San Antonio Express-News reported that it had obtained text messages in which the former staffer, Regina Ann Santos-Aviles, wrote to a colleague that she had an affair with Gonzales.
The Associated Press has not independently obtained copies of the messages. An attorney for Adrian Aviles, Santos-Aviles’ husband, has said the husband found out about the affair before his wife’s death.
Santos-Aviles, 35, died in September 2025 after setting herself on fire in the backyard of her Uvalde home. The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office later ruled her death a suicide.
Tyler Durden
Wed, 03/04/2026 – 09:40
Inter Miami firma acuerdo de derechos de nombre con Nu para nuevo estadio
MIAMI (AP) — Inter Miami pactó un acuerdo con la empresa brasileña de servicios financieros Nu, que tendrá los derechos de nombre del nuevo estadio del equipo cerca del aeropuerto internacional de Miami.
El Nu Stadium, un recinto con capacidad para 26.700 espectadores que sigue en construcción, tiene previsto albergar su primer partido el 4 de abril.
No se revelaron los términos del acuerdo, que se anunció el miércoles, salvo que se trata de un convenio por varios años.
Nu tendrá su logotipo en las camisetas del Inter Miami a partir de agosto, informó el equipo. Las camisetas de Inter Miami, impulsadas por la enorme popularidad del astro Lionel Messi, están entre las más vendidas del mundo.
Nu, un banco de enfoque digital con 131 millones de clientes en Brasil, México y Colombia, se está expandiendo a Estados Unidos. A principios de este año, suscribió una alianza con la escudería Mercedes de la Fórmula 1.
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“A Watershed Milestone”: Kraken Becomes First Crypto Firm To Gain Access To Fed’s Payment System
“A Watershed Milestone”: Kraken Becomes First Crypto Firm To Gain Access To Fed’s Payment System
By Francisco Rodriguez of CoinDesk
Kraken has secured a Federal Reserve “master account,” giving its banking arm direct access to the Fed’s core payment systems and making it the first crypto firm to operate on the same rails as traditional financial institutions.
The company said its unit, Kraken Financial, received approval for a Federal Reserve “master account,” the Wall Street Journal reports. The account allows direct access to Fedwire, a major interbank payment network that processes trillions in transfers a day.
Pro-crypto Senator Cynthia Lummis described this as a “watershed milestone in the history of digital assets.” That’s because until now, Kraken had to rely on partner banks to send or receive U.S. dollars. Direct access changes that flow as the firm can now settle payments itself, which may speed up deposits and withdrawals for large traders and institutional clients.
Kraken Financial operates under a Wyoming charter designed for crypto-focused banks. The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City oversaw the application.
The approval is limited, however. Kraken will not receive the full set of services available to traditional banks as it won’t earn interest on reserves or be able to tap into the Fed’s emergency lending.
Kraken, a cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2011, has been slowly moving towards an iniital public offering (IPO). Several of its rivals, including Gemini, Coinbase, and CoinDesk’s parent company Bullish have already made their public markets debut.
Its parent company, Payward, has been on an acquisition spree, last month adding token management platform Magna to it. Last year, it acquired U.S. futures trading platform NinjaTrader for $1.5 billion and U.S.-licensed derivatives trading venue Small Exchange for $100 million.
It also moved into the tokenization space with the acquisition of tokenized stock specialist Backed Finance, the issuer of xStocks.
Tyler Durden
Wed, 03/04/2026 – 09:21
Waukegan starts commercial recycling pilot program: ‘An area of concern for all of us’
People walking in the vicinity of Waukegan City Hall or the Metra railroad station carrying an empty coffee cup or soda can can dispose of it in a recycling bin rather than sending it to a landfill via a garbage can.
Ideas for commercial recycling in Waukegan were initiated during a discussion started at a meeting of the City Council’s Environment and Sustainability Committee in early February by Ald. Lynn Florian, 8th Ward, and has evolved into a pilot program with perhaps more to come.
With residents living in single-family, two-unit or three-apartment homes already recycling plastic containers, bottles, paper goods and more, Mayor Sam Cunningham said giving them the opportunity to do the same in commercial areas is a natural next move.
“Cleaning up our environment is an area of concern for all of us,” Cunningham said. “Finding ways to expand it in our community will make things better for the city, the community and the county.”
Waukegan started a two-month pilot commercial recycling program Monday with one receptacle next to a garbage can outside City Hall, and a second one at the train station, as the city makes an effort to show its waste hauler, LRS, that the program can be expanded.
Cunningham said City Hall and the train station are heavily trafficked areas where the city will be able to monitor what people place in the containers. If a person eats half a sandwich and puts the other half in a recycling bin with the bag, everything in the receptacle may go to a landfill.
“We want to make sure we have successful data to give us a successful pilot program,” he said.
Chris Garland, the city’s public works director, said the city will be watching the bins carefully to make sure garbage goes into the trash can and recyclables are placed in the recycling bin.
A successful two-month pilot program can mean expansion throughout downtown and beyond.
“We don’t want to look in the bin and see that all of it is not recyclable,” Garland said. “If there is one thing not recyclable, it’s all contaminated. We want to make sure it’s all recycled.”
Cris Manley, LRS’s general manager for northern Illinois, said his company will check the bins on a weekly basis for contaminants and report them to city officials. He wants to see no more than a “respectable” level of contamination.
Manley said if the data is acceptable, LRS and Waukegan can look at expanding the program. The results do not need to be perfect, but they need to be very good. Food waste is the biggest contaminant.
“What we don’t want to see is people walking, eating and discarding half a sandwich,” Manley said. “Pop cans, water bottles and coffee cups are what we hope to notice in the bin. We would also expect to see leaflets and papers.”
Earlier this year, Florian said she was talking to a bar and restaurant owner. He told her he would like to find a way to recycle the bottles, cans, paper goods and other items rather than throw them in the Dumpster near his tavern with other garbage.
“It all goes in the landfill because there is no other option,” she said. “It’s not just the taverns. There are large multifamily dwellings here, too. It’s important to encourage them to recycle and find a way for them to do it.”
While Florian said she is glad to see the pilot program, she hopes to see more in the future. Failure to find a solution is not only detrimental to the environment, it will eventually become costly.
“Our local landfill is going to fill up in the next 20 years,” she said of the facility on Green Bay Road near the Wisconsin state line. “When it’s full, we’ll have to go way out west. It’s not only bad for the environment, but it will increase the expense.”
If the pilot program is successful, Cunningham said the city will work with LRS to expand it, putting bins adjacent to garbage cans throughout the downtown area and in other commercial areas of the city.
“We have to focus on what we can do,” he said. “It’s something we want to push,” he added, referring to businesses recycling material. “It’s going to be good for the economy, and it will benefit our society.”
Apartment buildings of four units or more, office buildings, manufacturing plants, warehouses and other businesses contract for their own waste hauling. Some companies offer recycling services. Florian sees an opening for potential legislation.
“I’m hoping we can maybe pass an ordinance saying if you pick up garbage in Waukegan, you must offer recycling,” Florian said.
Walter Willis, the executive director of the Solid Waste Agency of Lake County, said, “It’s great” that Waukegan started its pilot program. There is a way municipalities can create a commercial franchise mandating recycling for commercial enterprises. It takes three years.
When commercial recycling is optional, Willis said between 20% and 25% of businesses participate. When a commercial franchise is put in place, the number of participants climbs to between 50% and 70%.
Willis said a municipality wishing to have a commercial franchise must spend three years gathering data. If less than 50% of businesses are not recycling by then, a franchise can be imposed. Overall, the results are usually good.
“We go slow and work with the business community,” Willis said. “When you have a community franchise, the garbage rates go down.”
Lake County municipalities with a community recycling franchise include Highland Park, Highwood, Deerfield, Bannockburn, Lake Bluff, Libertyville, Grayslake, Gurnee, Lindenhurst, Round Lake Beach and Volo.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/04/waukegan-commercial-recycling/
EEUU extiende prohibición de vuelos a Puerto Príncipe por violencia de pandillas
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (AP) — La agencia de aviación estadounidense extendió hasta el 3 de septiembre su prohibición de vuelos comerciales a la capital de Haití ante el riesgo de que bandas criminales puedan atacar aeronaves.
La Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA) suspendió todos los vuelos en noviembre después de que dispararan contra un vuelo de Spirit Airlines mientras aterrizaba en el Aeropuerto Internacional Toussaint Louverture de Puerto Príncipe. Una auxiliar de vuelo sufrió heridas leves y otros aviones comerciales que estaban en tierra también fueron alcanzados.
La FAA indicó en un aviso publicado el lunes que extendía la prohibición “debido a riesgos para la seguridad de los vuelos asociados con la inestabilidad en curso”, una medida que aísla aún más a la capital del atribulado país.
La agencia señaló que los pilotos pueden ignorar la prohibición en una emergencia que requiera acción inmediata.
Sunrise Airways, una aerolínea nacional, también suspendió los vuelos hacia y desde Puerto Príncipe a finales de noviembre debido a un tiroteo que alcanzó a un avión, según la embajada estadounidense.
Quienes pueden permitírselo vuelan hacia y desde Puerto Príncipe en helicópteros u otro transporte aéreo privado.
Mientras tanto, muchos haitianos rechazan el transporte terrestre porque bandas fuertemente armadas controlan las principales carreteras de entrada y salida de Puerto Príncipe y son conocidas por, en ocasiones, violar en grupo a mujeres que pasan por allí o abrir fuego al azar contra vehículos.
Las bandas controlan aproximadamente el 90% de la capital de Haití y extensas franjas de terreno en el interior del país. La mayoría de esas bandas son miembros de una coalición conocida como Viv Ansanm, o “Vivir Juntos”, que el gobierno de Estados Unidos ha designado como organización terrorista.
La coalición obligó a cerrar el aeropuerto internacional de Puerto Príncipe durante casi tres meses el año pasado tras lanzar ataques coordinados contra infraestructura gubernamental.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
