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Evening News for Monday, October 23, 2017

News headlines for the evening of October 23, 2017

  • Iowa cancels its request to the Trump Administration to opt out of Obamacare,
  • the Illinois Student Assistance Commission is hiring several people to work with high school students in the Quad Cities,
  • Moline lowers its minimum age to sell and serve alcohol,
  • and Airbnb agrees to start paying hotel motel taxes to the state of Iowa.

the forecast: cloudy and breezy with showers overnight, low 42. More of the same on Tuesday, high 48. 

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.