Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 20 marks six months since BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded, killing eleven workers and sending millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Following the disaster, the Sierra Club reached out to hundreds of thousands of citizens, who called on our leaders to prevent future[Read More…]
Day: October 20, 2010
Durbin Announces More Than $2.35 Million in Funding For South Suburban Chicago Development Initiative
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2010. Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded a $2,351,848 Community Challenge Planning grant to the South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association to help fund a residential development plan that will foster job[Read More…]
Government Files Emergency Appeal on ‘Don’t Ask’ Injunction
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–Oct. 20, 2010 – The Justice Department today filed an emergency appeal on behalf of the Defense Department to halt a federal judge’s injunction against the so-called “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law. The emergency motion filed in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asks the court to stop, or “stay,” immediately[Read More…]
Governor Quinn Announces More Than $270 Million in Capital Funds for School Districts Statewide
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2010. Governor Pat Quinn today announced that 18 Illinois school districts statewide will receive a total of more than $270 million from Illinois Jobs Now! to construct new buildings or expand existing ones. This capital funding will provide vital classroom space while creating approximately 3,700 construction jobs. Chicago[Read More…]
Governor Quinn Announces $12 Million Investment Package to Support Nippon Sharyo Expansion
ROCHELLE–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2010. Governor Pat Quinn today announced a $12 million state business investment package to Nippon Sharyo U.S.A., Inc., which will support $35 million in private investment, to establish a rail car manufacturing facility in Rochelle. The project will result in the creation of 250 new jobs and retention[Read More…]
Metropolis Man Arrested on Possession of Child Pornography Charge
Springfield, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on October 14, 2010, DENNIS LAUGHTON McCREE, age 57, of Metropolis, Illinois, was charged in a Criminal Complaint in United States District Court in Benton with one count of Possession of Child Pornography. Individuals[Read More…]
Graco Recalls Quattro™ and MetroLite™ Strollers Due to Risk of Entrapment and Strangulation
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 20, 2010. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.[Read More…]
Separating Church From State, Fact From Fiction
Commentary By Charles C. Haynes Director, Religious Freedom Education Project When Glen Urquhart told a candidates’ forum last April that Adolf Hitler, not Thomas Jefferson, coined the phrase “separation of church and state,” he probably didn’t anticipate that his bizarre take on history would be disseminated to the world on[Read More…]
Going To Court To Stop Political Attack Ads
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director While the emergence of tea party candidates is getting headlines in this fall’s midterm elections, another trend with free-speech implications has popped up, as well — candidates and supporters going to court, not just the ballot[Read More…]
Why Religious Literacy Matters
Commentary By Charles C. Haynes Director, Religious Freedom Education Project Twenty-first century America is the most religiously diverse society on earth and — among developed countries — one of the most religious. But how much do inhabitants of our faith-saturated land actually know about religion? Not very much, according to[Read More…]
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