Boone County leaves open-burning law as-is - Rockford, IL - Rockford Register Star

By Jennifer Wheeler

— Boone County Board members have agreed to not take action on changing the area’s open-burning ordinance, despite 359 resident signatures arguing that the haze is posing a health concern…..

That means residents must continue to call the Sheriff’s Department whenever someone breaks the rules. An officer has the power to issue a citation and call the Fire Department to put out the flames.
“We need to have the exact location and we’ll look into it, investigate it and we issue an ordinance violation if it’s needed at this point,” Lt. Jerry Ashens of the Sheriff’s Department said.

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If Romney loses Ohio, Obama wins big | Power Players - Yahoo! News

 

For all the talk of polls, and where President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney stand nationally, the 2012 presidential election will be decided in eight battleground states: Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Virginia, New Hampshire, and Florida.

The current state of the electoral college map must be a difficult one for Romney to look at -- all eight of those swing states voted for Obama four years ago. When you zoom in a bit, little Ohio is just enormous in 2012. If Ohio's 18 electoral votes go to Obama, it would be almost impossible for Romney to win; if he lost Ohio, the Republican candidate would have to take just about every other battleground state to get to the White House.

If Romney loses Ohio, Obama wins big | Power Players - Yahoo! News