Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Automatic Voter Registration is now the law in Illinois, and Cook County Clerk David Orr has high praise for the move, as well as a rebuke for Governor Rauner’s previous moves to block AVR. The bill provides “that an application for a driver’s license, other than a temporary[Read More…]
Day: August 28, 2017
Statement from IL House Speaker Madigan on School Funding
SPRINGFIELD, IL–(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2017. House Speaker Michael J. Madigan issued the following statement on Monday: “Today we saw compromise. Instead of pitting children and communities against each other, Democrats and Republicans came to an agreement on much of what’s in this bill. And even where we don’t fully agree, we’re[Read More…]
Park Forest News: Police Blotter Reports for August 28, 2017
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)— Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting in depth reporting of Park Forest news with this week’s police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than is reported by other[Read More…]
Human Rights Watch: Trump Threatening to Expel ‘Dreamers’
Repealing DACA Would Harm Thousands With Close US Ties Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2017. US President Donald Trump’s threatened repeal of a program protecting from deportation immigrants who arrived in the United States as children would harm hundreds of thousands of people with strong ties to the US, Human Rights[Read More…]
Common Flame Retardant Chemicals May Reduce Likelihood of Clinical Pregnancy, Live Birth Among Women Undergoing Fertility Treatments
Boston, MA –(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2017. Women with higher urinary concentrations of a common type of flame retardant had reduced likelihood of clinical pregnancy and live birth than those with lower concentrations, according to researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study, conducted in the Fertility Clinic at Massachusetts[Read More…]
New Locomotives Serving Amtrak Riders in Illinois
IDOT leads effort to provide customers with improved travel experience CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2017. The Illinois Department of Transportation announced that new locomotives are now serving Amtrak customers in Illinois, a major step toward replacing the fleet that operates on passenger rail lines throughout the Midwest. As part of its[Read More…]
Western Environmental Law Center: Incoming Chief of U.S. Forest Service Tony Tooke Brings experience, Leadership to Forest Service
Portland, OR—(ENEWSPF)—August 28, 2017. Last week, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue appointed Tony Tooke, a career U.S. Forest Service employee since the age of 18, to lead the organization as its chief. Susan Jane Brown, wildlands and wildlife program director for the Western Environmental Law Center, issued the following statement[Read More…]
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Luis Macedo Arrested
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- After eight years on the run, a Chicago man who is one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, Luis Macedo, is now in custody, announced Special Agent in Charge Michael J. Anderson of the FBI Chicago Field Office. Mr. Anderson is joined by the Chicago Police Department[Read More…]
NASA Sees Tropical Storm Harvey Moving Back into the Gulf, August 28, 2017
MARYLAND–(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2017. On Monday, Aug. 28 at 7 a.m. CDT the National Hurricane Center said the center of Harvey is emerging into the Gulf of Mexico. A NASA animation of imagery from NOAA’s GOES East satellite shows Harvey as it lingered over southeastern Texas over the weekend of Aug.[Read More…]
More Texas Guardsmen Deploy as Harvey Causes Catastrophic Flooding
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2017 By: Jim Garamone Weather forecasters are saying the remnants of Hurricane Harvey is causing “catastrophic flooding” in Southeastern Texas, as 3,000 Texas State Guard and Texas National Guardsmen have now been called up to help their fellow citizens, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said today during a[Read More…]
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