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Lawmakers reverse gun bill veto Illinois becomes 50th state to allow concealed carry By DAVID THOMAS dthomas@shawmedia.com SPRINGFIELD – Illinois became the last state in the nation to allow public possession of concealed guns as lawmakers rushed Tuesday to finalize the law ahead of a federal court’s deadline. DeKalb-area lawmakers joined
their colleagues in overriding the changes Gov. Pat Quinn made to the bill they approved more than a month ago. Even some critics of the law argued it was better to approve something rather than risk the courts allowing virtually unregulated concealed weapons in Chicago, which has endured severe gun violence in recent months.
That was the argument voiced by state Sen. Kwame Raoul, said fellow Sen. Tim Bivins, R-Dixon. Bivins worked with the Chicago Democrat on concealed-carry negotiations earlier this year. “He was supportive of the governor’s amendatory veto, but problem is – if we don’t do something today, it goes to open carry,” Bivins said.
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The Senate voted 41-17 in favor of the override Tuesday afternoon after the House voted 77-31, margins that met the three-fifths threshold needed to set aside the veto. Quinn had used his amendatory veto authority to suggest changes such as prohibiting guns in restaurants that
“The time for those suggestions would have been during the negotiation process, not after an agreement has been reached.” State Rep. Robert Pritchard about Gov. Pat Quinn’s changes
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More turkey vultures seen in DeKalb County
Egyptian transition plan draws critics’ fire The ASSOCIATED PRESS
Photos by Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com
Vinnie, a 23-year-old turkey vulture, flies around his enclosure June 27 at Oaken Acres Wildlife Center in Sycamore as Kathy Stelford watches. By DAVID THOMAS dthomas@shawmedia.com SYCAMORE – Vinnie doesn’t realize he’s a vulture. For the past 23 years, the barn at Oaken Acres Wildlife Center has been home to a special resident. He’s a turkey vulture who has imprinted onto humans, said Kathy Stelford, founder and president of the wildlife center. As a result, each attempt to release Vinnie back into the wild has met with failure, even when birds of his own kind are flying overhead. “He would leave for a day or two with them, but he’d come back,” Stelford said. “He doesn’t identify with them.” There seems to be more of Vinnie’s kind in the area lately.
Local environment experts have noticed more turkey vultures in DeKalb County during the past five to 10 years, although it’s unclear why. “Each year now, we’ve seen more and more vultures in the area,” Stelford said. “We have a constant presence of vultures from the end of March to November, which didn’t used to happen.” Turkey vultures are carrion birds native to North America that eat dead animal carcasses. The birds migrate during the year, going north to breed and then flying south during the winter. Turkey vultures have bare red heads with no feathers on them. Peggy Doty, an educator with the University of Illinois Extension
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Four turkey vultures are seen resting on a silo June 25 near Somonauk Road in DeKalb.
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CAIRO – Egypt’s military-backed interim leader named a new prime minister and won $8 billion in promises of aid from wealthy Arab allies in the Gulf on Tuesday in moves aimed at stabilizing a political transition less than a week after the army deposed the Islamist president. The armed forces warned political factions that “maneuvering” must not hold up its ambitious fast-track timetable for new elections next year. The sharp message underlined how strongly the military is shepherding the process, even as liberal reform movements that backed its removal of Mohammed Morsi complained that now they are not being consulted in decision-making. The Muslim Brotherhood denounced the plan, vowing to continue its street protests until ousted Morsi, the country’s first freely elected president, is returned to power. The appointment of economist Hazem el-Beblawi as prime minister, along with the setting of the accelerated timetable, underlined the military’s determination to push ahead in the face of Islamist opposition and outrage over the killing of more than 50 Morsi supporters Monday. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates provided a welcome boost for the new leadership. The two countries, both opponents of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, celebrated his ouster by showering the cash-strapped Egyptian government with promises of $8 billion in grants, loans and badly needed gas and oil. In doing so, they are effectively stepping in for Qatar, a close ally of the Brotherhood, that gave his government several billion in aid. During Morsi’s year in office as Egypt’s first freely elected president, he and his officials toured multiple countries seeking cash to prop up rapidly draining foreign currency reserves and plug mounting deficits – at times getting a cold shoulder. The developments underlined the pressures on the new leadership even with the country still in turmoil after what Morsi’s supporters have called a coup against democracy.
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