Published Monday May 20 2013 6:43 am. Tags: AP, Associated Press, Department of Justice, scandal, U.S. Department of Justice
Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday, and he didn’t know, wasn’t sure of, or simply couldn’t remember a lot of information. Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. nicknamed lately Eric “The Withholder” Holder, is the 82nd Attorney General of the United States, in office since 2009. Eric Holder, serving in the administration [...]
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Published Monday May 20 2013 6:25 am. Tags: AP, Associated Press, Chilling Effect
Jennifer Loven, Jane Hall & Joe Concha join Howard Kurtz to discuss the Justice Department’s seizure of AP phone records. Government monitoring of journalists at AP has more affect on the sources who become afraid of communicating with the journalists, according to the panel. Jennifer Loven is an American journalist and a former White House [...]
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Published Monday May 20 2013 6:02 am. Tags: Com Ed, energy aggregation program, Integrys
Arlington Heights along with six other municipalities recently renewed its agreement with Integrys Energy through the end of April, 2014. The first rate changes with the new agreement will occur beginning with the June billing cycle. Residents will be receiving rate change notices in the mail from Integrys. Residents will automatically remain in the program [...]
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Published Sunday May 19 2013 6:29 pm.
Jennifer Rubin, David Shuster & Howard Kurtz look at media criticism of the Obama administration over the IRS scandal. We’ll see which one of these pundits are correct. Will the IRS scandal just go away as the FBI work in secrecy — prognosticated by David Shuster? or will Senate Hearings keep the issue in the [...]
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Published Sunday May 19 2013 2:05 pm. Tags: genetically modified food, GMO, soy beans
Indiana farmer Vernon H. Bowman, who lost Supreme Court battle with Monsanto speaks out. As a child, he heard advice that “progress leads to destruction” and it ignored it. No he’s beginning to wonder. The United States Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of biotech giant Monsanto, closing the door on a patent case that [...]
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Published Friday May 17 2013 6:13 pm. Tags: Congress, Congressional Hearing, Internal Revenue Service, IRS
The ousted chief of the Internal Revenue Service Steven Miller is telling Congress that his agency made errors in targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, but he says the mistakes were not the result of partisan views. The IRS openly discriminated against groups, but the former chief Steven Miller claims the error was the work [...]
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Published Thursday May 16 2013 8:26 am. Tags: IRS, IRS targeting, Justice Department
House Speaker John Boehner asks, “My Question Isn’t About Who’s Going to Resign; My Question Is Who’s Going to Jail?” over the IRS scandal. The Justice Department is opening a critical investigation, but the White House is claiming there was no knowledge, and President Barack Obama was still speaking in conditional phrases, saying “if the [...]
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Published Thursday May 16 2013 6:19 am. Tags: Arlington Heights Police Department, Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, Northwest Central Dispatch, Northwest Central Dispatch System, Terrorism, train derailment, Union Pacific
Take a good look at the Google satellite view of our 9-1-1 center, Northwest Central Dispatch at 1975 East Davis Street. Does anything look a little vulnerable? At the end of one of the most desolate roadways in Arlington Heights sits the 9-1-1 center for eleven police agencies* — Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove [...]
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Published Wednesday May 15 2013 11:31 am.
The latest Congressional hearing on the attack at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya focused on whether the U.S. military could have responded more quickly to end the assault. Attorney General Eric Holder says he’s ordered a Justice Department investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny. He said [...]
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Published Tuesday May 14 2013 8:20 am. Tags: EAB, Emerald Ash Borer, Village of Arlington Heights
Evidence of the Emerald Ash Borer’s infestation can be seen throughout Arlington Heights. Please join the Village on Thursday, May 23, from 7-8 p.m .at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library, 500 N. Dunton Ave., for a brief informational meeting on the Emerald Ash Borer. The informational session will include Scott Schirmer, Plant and Pesticide Specialist [...]
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Published Monday May 06 2013 7:39 am. Tags: government transparency, Village Board agenda, Village of Arlington Heights
Behind the scenes video work by Lorelle Communications at a recent Village Board meeting. In its ongoing effort to inform citizens, the Village is launching a new web-based Village Board Agenda program that will enable the public to view Village Board Agendas with packet materials, as well as watch live streaming and on-demand videos of [...]
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Published Monday April 22 2013 2:40 pm. Tags: Arlington Heights Fire Department, Arlington Heights Police Department, explosion, explosion Arlington Heights, fatal industrial accident, OSHA
VIDEO: Extra-alarm ambulance response at Arens Controls plant after an explosion killed one employee, injured seven employees, and also injured three police officers. Arens Control, 3602 North Kennicott Avenue in Arlington Heights, has paid in full total fines of $26,100 after an OSHA investigation found five violations classified as SERIOUS at the warehouse plant where [...]
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