Amid a boisterous debate on health care reform, people flooded members of Congress on Thursday with so many e-mails that they overloaded the House's primary Web site.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
E-Mails From Public Overload House Web Site - NYTimes.com
The Belvidere Daily Republican. - Boone County Chairman makes third pick for board
After nearly four months of a vacant Boone County board position, board chairman Bob Walberg hopes to come to a resolution at the next full meeting by submitting Paul Larson as his choice.
Larson [bottom photo] has been a resident of District 2 for more than 20 years. With a background in manufacturing and a degree in mechanical engineering, Larson also has his name listed on four patents and is primary inventor of one product.
“Family” PAC's summer cruise on the Chicago River.
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Boone County Representative Ron Wait attends Family PAC cruise on Tuesday night. Oklahoma United States Senator Tom Coburn was in Chicago Tuesday night as the featured speaker for Paul Caprio's Family PAC's annual cruise.
Senator Coburn is affiliated with a religious organization called The Family which has been involved in several recent scandals.[63]
Senator Coburn lives in one of the Family's dormitories when in Washington, D.C. with Senator John Ensign, another Family member and longtime resident of the C Street Center who recently admitted he had an extra-marital affair with a staffer. The announcement by Ensign of his extramarital affair brought public scrutiny of the Family and its connection to other high ranking politicians including Senator Coburn.[64]
Senator Coburn, together senior members of the Family, attempted to intervene to end Ensign's affair in February 2008, prior to the affair becoming public, including by meeting with the husband of Ensign's mistress and encouraging Ensign to write a letter to his mistress breaking off the affair.[63][65][66] Senator Ensign was driven to Federal Express from C Street Center to post the letter, shortly after which Ensign called to tell his mistress to ignore it. [63][65][66]
Senator Coburn refuses to speak about his involvement in Ensign's affair or his knowledge of the affair well before it became public on the grounds of alleged "privilege" due to his separate status as a licensed physician in the State of Oklahoma (OB/GYN) and an ordained deacon.[67]
The pictures are courtesy of Cal Skinner at: http://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/labels/Family%20PAC.html
Much of the text is taken from WIKIPEDIA at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Coburn
Northwest Herald | Toll authority head resigns
The chairman of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority's board has quit. John Mitola submitted his resignation on Wednesday but says he'll serve until Gov. Pat Quinn appoints a replacement.
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Tools for development: Stephenson County takes part in recovery zone program - Freeport, IL - The Journal-Standard
Both Stephenson and McHenry Counties are in the Recovery Zone Program, when will Boone County get into the program?
By approving this designation, the county will have access to nearly $9 million in bond funding from the federal stimulus program, which is known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
For example, this bond funding could be used for a major local infrastructure project such as a new village water tower, officials said. Stephenson County will have access to $3,759,000 in economic development bond funding.
The facility bonds permit counties and large municipalities to provide tax-exempt financing for projects that historically would not qualify for industrial revenue bonds. This includes large manufacturing plants, distribution centers, hotels, research parks, and more. Stephenson County will have access to $5,639,000 in facility bond funding.
Stephenson County is one of the first units of government to proceed with the recovery zone bond program. The only other unit to adopt the program so far is Minneapolis, Minn
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St. Charles reaches agreement with police union :: Beacon News :: Local News
The agreement calls for the wage rates for bargaining unit personnel to remain at their current levels through the end of this fiscal year.
This matches the terms of a wage freeze already implemented for non-union employees, as well as the IBEW, Teamster and International Association of Firefighters bargaining units.
The final three years of the contract with police officers calls for wage increases of 3.75 percent for the 2010-2011 fiscal year, 4 percent for 2001-12 and 4.25 percent for 2012-13.
St. Charles reaches agreement with police union :: Beacon News :: Local News
Burlington may add one really nice house :: The Courier News :: Local News
There still are some people with money.
BURLINGTON — Burlington has been asked to approve construction of one really, really nice place to live — a 12,000-square-foot house with a Japanese garden, a three-hole private golf course, ponds and a turf and sod farm, totaling 52 acres of yard.
And that will just be the owner's summer home.
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