Tuesday, March 24, 2009

State of Illinois - Illinois Recovery

Here is a good resource regarding stimulus here in Illinois.

  • People, Work and Opportunity
  • Education
  • Energy and Environment
  • Health Care
  • Infrastructure
  • Public Safety
  • For more information on any of these items, click below and reclick on the item on the new page:

    http://recovery.illinois.gov/stateprograms.htm

    New Mexican- US agreement regarding the fight against Mexican Drug Cartels

    Highlights of US Border Security Plan with Mexico

    Doubling Border Enforcement Security Task (BEST) Forces.

    Tripling Homeland Security intelligence analysts working along US-Mexico border.

    Quadrupling US Border Liaison Officers working with Mexican law enforcement entities.

    Drug Enforcement Agency adding 16 agents to Southwest border divisions. Now, 29 percent of DEA's 1,171 agents are now in the Southwest border field divisions

    Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco, Firearms Relocating 100 personnel to the border in the next 45 days, to fortify its efforts designed to stop gun-running to Mexico.

    Expanding treatment capacity of US drug courts, including $63.9 million in 2009 budget.

    $700 million budgeted for 2008 and 2009 for enhancing Mexican law enforcement and judicial capacity under the Merida Initiative.

    Source: White House press office

    Read this interesting story from the Christian Science Monitor.  It givens some details and the goals of this new program.

    Click on the following:

    US tightens up violent Mexican border | csmonitor.com

    Chrysler supplier threatens shutdown - - BusinessRockford.com

    It is not just Chrysler, it is the supply chain.

    Click on the following to read the rest of the story. 

    Chrysler supplier threatens shutdown - - BusinessRockford.com

    4-Wheel Dreams for Millions of Drivers in India - NYTimes.com

    Premier of the Nana from Tata Motors. Tata Group also owns two British auto companies—Land Rover and Jaguar.

    Tata Nano

    On the market ... the Tata Nano has been compared to the classic "People's Car" - the Volkswagen Beetle / Reuters

    Click on the following to read the story. 

    4-Wheel Dreams for Millions of Drivers in India - NYTimes.com

    Japanese man certified as double A-bomb victim

    Very interesting story—quite unbelievable.

    Click on the following to read the story:

    Japanese man certified as double A-bomb victim