17,000 new jobs for a grand total of over 4,000 per million residents, putting the Puerto Rico third behind Washington and Montana in jobs created by the federal stimulus bill, according to a Monitor analysis of new stimulus figures released by the White House.
In Puerto Rico, school bathroom repairs, road rebuilding, and public housing renovation are among the key job-drivers.
Big winner on economic stimulus and jobs is … Puerto Rico? | csmonitor.com
if someone arrested refuses to take the breathalyzer test, attorneys are on hand to immediately go to a judge on call to ask him or her to sign a warrant. If the judge signs the warrant, that means the court is ordering the defendant to give a blood sample.
If the defendant continues to refuse, the court can follow with contempt sanctions and charge the defendant with felony obstructing justice.
Click on the following for more details: No-refusal weekend in Kane County :: Beacon News :: Local Newsless than 10 percent of those students who reported illness on Oct. 19 and 20 actually had flu-like symptoms.
absenteeism "likely was due to a combination of several different causes of illness in conjunction with non-illness-related absences."
8 percent of students reported flu-like symptoms; about 20 percent reported respiratory illness that was not flu-like; about 22 percent reported gastrointestinal illness; about 50 percent reported a variety of symptoms.
Health Department: No flu outbreak in SC :: Beacon News :: Local News
Oak Park-based FBOP Corp., Chicago’s third-largest locally headquartered bank holding company, was seized Friday by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
when the federal government seized mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during the height of the financial panic, wiping out more than $800 million in Fannie and Freddie preferred stock held by FBOP. That put the $18.6-billion-asset bank holding company, owned solely by CEO Michael Kelly, into a capital hole it couldn’t fill.
Click on the following for more details: FBOP fails, U.S. Bancorp the buyer | Crain's Chicago Business
The $2.5 billion received in Illinois was second only to California's $8.1 billion, according to the figures
Of the 24,448 jobs created or retained in Illinois from the historic spending package, the state reported that 14,330 jobs were in the education sector.
Click on the following for more details: Stimulus gave state 16,000 school, highway jobs -- chicagotribune.com
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