The Obama administration and five states, including Illinois, have reached an agreement to speed up approval of offshore wind farms in the Great Lakes, which have been delayed by cost concerns and public opposition. Under the deal, state and federal agencies will craft a blueprint for speeding regulatory review of proposed wind farms without sacrificing environmental and safety standards. Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York and Pennsylvania signed the agreement. llinois Gov. Pat Quinn said developing offshore wind energy would "promote economic development and create jobs, while reducing our dependence on foreign energy sources."
A bill that would strengthen current anti-bullying protections in Illinois has passed out the Illinois General Assembly. Bill HB 5290, introduced by lesbian state Rep. Kelly Cassidy, is headed to the Illinois Senate. The bill is not directly related to LGBT issues. Rather, it adds to the current code to create a model bullying prevention policies for schools for 2013. The current school code does contain LGBT anti-bullying protections.
In Illinois, legislators can personally award scholarships to state universities – sometimes to friends, donors and political allies. For a century, each Illinois legislator has had the power to hand out a few scholarships every year without regard to students' needs or qualifications. In recent years, a state lawmaker helped a political backer's four children with $94,000 worth of tuition waivers. Another gave a scholarship to the son of a Chicago alderman. Now, after the failure of repeated efforts to end the $13.5 million-a-year program, opponents are making a new push to eliminate the waivers as Illinois officials try again to clean up the state's image after two consecutive governors wound up in prison.
At issue is the clash between the Catholic Church’s stance on contraception and one of the guidelines of the act championed by President Obama: a provision that would require health insurance providers to cover contraception and sterilization procedures at no cost to the patient. The provision does not exempt employers with a religious affiliation who hire people with diverse religious backgrounds — like the hundreds of schools and hospitals run by the Catholic Church nationwide.
, according to Metra spokesperson Tom Miller. Miller had few details and did not know the victim's identity, but Commander Paul Yaras of the Morton Grove Police Department said the victim was a male, and was walking on the tracks south of the station.
In addition to its 30th year anniversary in February, The Book Stall at Chestnut Court has another reason to celebrate. According to Publishers Weekly, The Book Stall is also experiencing high sales this year due to changes in the bookstore market.
It is good to see the right wing ignorance is alive and well.
"One example is the city of Reno, which paid $21,000 to have a wind turbine installed. It’s saved them a whopping $4 in energy costs. In total, the city has paid $416,000 for all of it’s wind turbines, only to see a net savings of $2,800." By the way, the primary was only for Republicans and Democrats. Independents and other parties can start getting forms to gather signatures now.
It has recently come to my attention that the underlying reasons and causes for McCloudsUncle's possession-obsessed missives must be defined, examined, and resolved, or they'll never cease. I would like to start by discussing McCloudsUncle's metanarratives, mainly because they scare me. The thing I'm the most frightened about is that McCloudsUncle is known for requiring religious services around the world to begin with "McCloudsUncle is great; McCloudsUncle is good; we thank McCloudsUncle for our daily food". This is not only a grotesque betrayal of the principles that McCloudsUncle himself claims to uphold but a clear demonstration of how if you think that this is humorous or exaggerated, you're wrong. His barbarism-prone jeremiads are meticulously designed to keep the population unaware, uneducated, dumbed down, and focused on stupefying activities like video games. The intention is to prevent people from noticing that McCloudsUncle has been tossing quaint concepts like decency, fairness, and rational debate out the window. The take-away message of this letter is that McCloudsUncle is leading us down the road of terrorism. We should hold these words to our bosom, use them as a shield against McCloudsUncle's inequities, and wield them unilaterally against those who would increase alienation and delinquency among our young people.
Are you aware of how much money Fox lost when it first started broadcasting its propaganda? A lot. New ventures tend to do that. It takes time to see positive results. Do you propose we wait until we're on our last oil supplies before we start finding alternate energy sources? That doesn't sound like a viable plan to me. Not very forward thinking. Then again, that seems to be a common theme among the right wingers. How sad to have no vision.
1) We found no support for the hypothesis that liberals would be most accurate; liberals were the least accurate about conservatives and about liberals. The largest inaccuracies were in liberals’ underestimations of conservatives’ Harm and Fairness concerns, and liberals further exaggerated the political differences by overestimating their own such concerns. 2) We found some support for the hypothesis that moderates would be most accurate, which they were in the case of the binding foundations. The research showed that, by a significant margin, liberals were less accurate in their depiction of conservatives than the converse. " http://www.redstate.com/bs/2012/03/28/liberals-conservatives-values-and-how-we-perceive-each-other/
deny us for our good; so find we profit, by losing of our prayers.
Ezekiel 25:15-17 15 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with malice in their hearts, and with ancient hostility sought to destroy Judah, 16 therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Kerethites and destroy those remaining along the coast. 17 I will carry out great vengeance on them and punish them in my wrath. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I take vengeance on them.’”
http://www.alternet.org/media/154875/the_science_of_fox_news%3A_why_its_viewers_are_the_most_misinformed/?page=entire