Author: Team NIDO

In this troubling political moment, there is nothing more jarring than the experience of watching Saturday Night Live in a swing state. In between commercials filled with creepy attack ads, the country teeters on the brink. Liberal Kamala Harris is freeing a murderer and Donald Trump is giving tax cuts to his billionaire friends. But once the camera is up and running on Studio 8H, the stakes plummet. We no longer face the most consequential election of our lifetimes, a life-or-death battle in which the very survival of our democracy and our nation is at stake. We are watching a…

Wintrust Financial CorporationROSEMONT, Ill, Oct. 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Wintrust Financial Corporation (“Wintrust”, “the Company”, “we” or “our”) (Nasdaq: WTFC) announced net income of $509.7 million or $7.67 per diluted common share for the first nine months of 2024 compared to net income of $499.1 million or $7.71 per diluted common share for the same period of 2023. Pre-tax, pre-provision income (non-GAAP) for the first nine months of 2024 totaled a record $778.1 million, compared to $751.3 million in the first nine months of 2023.The Company recorded quarterly net income of $170.0 million or $2.47 per diluted common share…

(TNS) — Grant County, once known primarily for agriculture, is quickly becoming a hub for electric vehicle batteries and green technology.Abundant space, cheap electricity and government funding are supporting the transition.But rapid growth also comes with some challenges, U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse said Friday at a forum with employees of Shira Nanotechnology, a battery parts maker in Moses Lake.”This community is growing,” said Alex Fitzsimmons, Sila’s director of government affairs. “There’s a lot more manufacturing coming into the county and Shira is just a microcosm of that.”The Alameda, Calif.-based company is renovating a 600,000-square-foot factory in Moses Lake and plans…

Blanca Carmona / La Verdado JuarezCiudad Juárez – Salvador GG, the former head of the Chihuahua office of Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) who was indicted in 2023 over the disastrous migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez, told a judge last week that he was a scapegoat. He said he was used as a criminal and was imprisoned for the following crimes: A crime he didn’t commit.”In this process, I have been used as a scapegoat. I have been instructed to work within the laws and regulations, and I have done so…I have been answering for a year and a…

(TNS) — Cal Fire extinguished a wildfire in rural San Luis Obispo County Tuesday afternoon, but there were no 911 calls.Instead, AI cameras detected smoke and notified first responders in the early stages before the fire turned into an inferno.”No one reported this,” Cal Fire spokesman Ryan Grieve told the Tribune. “Someone’s computer said, ‘There’s a fire.’ That’s very impressive to me and says a lot about where we’re going with technology.”The fire broke out around noon Tuesday at La Panza Ranch, south of Highway 58 at the intersection of San Juan Creek Road and Hay Canyon Road, about 40…

When Kents Hill School students arrived at the Maine Central Campus to begin the 2024-2025 school year, they were greeted by their new principal, Dr. Molly T. McKean. The boarding and day school, which has been co-educational since its founding 200 years ago, is marking a new milestone with its first female leader. But McKean is even more excited that her gender isn’t getting more attention. “The Kents Hill community is so inviting,” she says. “We are a place where gender doesn’t matter as long as you care about the kids and care about Kents Hill.” Dr. Molly T. McKean.…

After a surge in absorption in the second quarter, absorption in the southeastern Wisconsin industrial real estate market slowed in the third quarter, but the market remains healthy and vacancies are increasing, according to the Wisconsin Association of Commerce’s latest market report. The rate has fallen slightly to 5.5%. (CARW) and Moody’s. The market absorbed 787,594 square feet of industrial land, and while total square footage was healthy, it was down significantly from approximately 2.2 million square feet in the second quarter. Year-to-date, the southeastern Wisconsin industrial real estate market has absorbed more than 2.9 million square feet of space.…

New York Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu, 20, celebrates after the Liberty defeated the Minnesota Lynx. [+] Game 5 of the WNBA Basketball Finals series for the WNBA Championship will be held in New York on Sunday, October 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)Associated Press The New York Liberty won their first WNBA Championship with a dramatic overtime victory over the Minnesota Lynx, marking the end of an exciting season. But while the players celebrated, new challenges arose. The WNBA Players Association withdrew from the current collective bargaining agreement two years before it expired. The move suggests work could be halted if…

When the history of the 2024 election is written, one of the iconic images will be of Donald J. Trump staring into the camera with his signature glare, taken after one of his four indictments. There is no doubt that it will be a picture of your face. It’s an image of defiance, not shame, of a man who could be a convicted felon until Election Day and then become president of the United States again.In the midst of the intense campaigning going into the final weeks, a simple but daunting fact is sometimes forgotten. For the first time in…

Nothing slows down the free flow of commerce and payments like manual intervention. And on Sunday (October 20), simplification of financial management processes through digital automation follows news that Bank of America is allowing businesses to lock in foreign exchange (FX) rates for up to one year. It has become a top priority for finance leaders. As more businesses work to replace manual payment processes with automated and secure electronic solutions, today’s financial environment is focused on optimizing working capital, managing liquidity efficiently, and managing cash flow in real time. They are benefiting from complex network effects that give them…