Commentary The G.O.P. is unveiling a new campaign tactic for the fall elections: litigation. They haven’t got a snowball’s chance in a September Washington of winning these cases. From Politico.com, and the people have who repeatedly insist that Barack Obama is of the Muslim faith born outside the United States:[Read More…]
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Ongoing Administration-Wide Response to the Deepwater BP Oil Spill, September 9, 2010
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 9, 2010. Past 24 HOURS Unified Command Transitions Sea Turtle Response Efforts to New Phase Wildlife scientists from the Deepwater Horizon/BP Oil Spill Unified Command are finding fewer sea turtles offshore that require rehabilitation, and are now turning their focus to releasing rehabilitated turtles, continuing near shore stranding[Read More…]
Mayor Race Wide Open As Daley Steps Aside
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Suddenly, the race for Chicago mayor is on. Mayor Richard M. Daley has thrown the competition for the city’s top job wide open by announcing he won’t run for a seventh term, ending 21 years of token opposition and prompting speculation about who’s next in line to lead[Read More…]
Governor Quinn proclaims September as Campus Fire Safety Month in Illinois
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–September 9, 2010. Governor Pat Quinn has proclaimed September is Campus Fire Safety Month in Illinois. Since 2000, nationally there have been 71 fatal off-campus fires that have claimed the lives of 102 students, plus many more that were injured, according to the Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal[Read More…]
Death Notice: Bernice Kryda nee Campau
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Pastor Terry Jones Cancels Qur’an Burning: No Deal to Move Muslim Community Center
From the New York Times: The pastor planning a burning of the Koran on Saturday said Thursday he will cancel the event, adding he plans to meet with the imam planning to build an Islamic center near ground zero. Terry Jones, the pastor from Gainesville, Fla., said at a press[Read More…]
Belleville Man Sentenced in Child Pornography Case
Springfield, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on September 8, 2010, DAVID MONFRE, age 31, of Belleville, Illinois, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, to 96 months’ imprisonment to be followed by supervised release for life. MONFRE[Read More…]
Unified Command Transitions Sea Turtle Response Efforts to New Phase
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–September 9, 2010. Wildlife scientists from the Deepwater Horizon/BP Oil Spill Unified Command are finding fewer sea turtles offshore that require rehabilitation, and are now turning their focus to releasing rehabilitated turtles, continuing near shore stranding and salvage network efforts and to learning how these populations of endangered and[Read More…]
Park Forest Nurses Club To Hold Annual Smorgasbord
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—September 9, 2010. The Park Forest Nurses Club will hold its annual smorgasbord on Thursday, September 16 at 6:30 p.m. at Calvary United Protestant Church, 425 Orchard Drive (corner of Lincoln Highway and Orchard Drive). Guest speaker, Lois Roelofs, PhD, RN., Professor Emerita, Trinity Christian College, will discuss[Read More…]
BP Releases Report on Causes of Gulf of Mexico Tragedy
HOUSTON—(ENEWSPF)—September 8, 2010. No single factor caused the Macondo well tragedy. Rather, a sequence of failures involving a number of different parties led to the explosion and fire which killed 11 people and caused widespread pollution in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year. A report released by BP today[Read More…]
