News from December 2009
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2009
News Release: Yosemite National Park Superintendent Dave Uberuaga has announced that Tom Medema has been selected as the Chief of Interpretation and Education at the park. Tom has been in the position in an acting capacity for well over a year and will officially begin his duties in January, 2010.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2009
News Release: Now that the snow has arrived, join a Park Ranger on snowshoes and explore Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) in all its winter splendor! To kick off the season, a special holiday vacation snowshoe hike will be held on Wednesday, December 30. Because the hikes were so popular...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 21, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), Senior Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today after Senate Democrats voted overnight, under the cover of darkness to advance the latest version of a government takeover of health care.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2009
News Release: Twelve detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan, Yemen and the Somaliland region.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2009
News Release: Thanks to a strong team of government and non-government partners, more native fishers will be reintroduced at remote sites within Olympic National Park next week, kicking off the third and final winter of releases.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2009
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) made the following statement today at press conference to discuss the Manager’s Amendment to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) applauded Senate action today on a package of Finance Committee measures critical to U.S. jobs, highways and economic recovery. The Finance package, included as part of end-of-year defense appropriations legislation, includes two-month...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2009
News Release: Olympic National Park invites interested members of the public to review and provide input on an environmental assessment regarding a proposal to rehabilitate the Boulder Creek trail and former automobile campground.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 "As expected, a large majority of states and territories—46 of 56—have informed DHS that they will not be able to meet the Dec. 31 REAL ID material compliance deadline. As the National Governors Association has said, the states ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2009
News Release: Mark Edwin Cairnes, 51, was sentenced today to 292 months in prison and lifetime supervised release following his prison term for advertising and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON — An Oklahoma man was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for his role in a scheme to solicit kickbacks in connection with the award of a private security services subcontract to protect U.S. government personnel and contractors in Afghanistan, announced Assistant Attorney General ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Jackson, Mich., resident Terrence Hicks and Detroit residents Muhammed Al Mahdi and John Saunders pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan this week for their roles in a $4.2 million Medicare fraud scheme, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON -- William A. "Bill" White, the self-proclaimed commander of the neo-Nazi group the American National Socialist Workers Party, was convicted by a federal jury for threatening three individuals and for attempting to intimidate litigants in a federal housing discrimination lawsuit, the Justice Department announced. White was convicted today of three counts of communicating threats in interstate commerce, and one count of witness intimidation.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 18, 2009
News Release: Thank you, Mayor Slay, for that kind introduction and for your leadership of this beautiful city.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 18, 2009
News Release: Deputy Secretary of Commerce Dennis F. Hightower Remarks Announcing $39.7 Million Investment to Increase Broadband Access in New York Cortland, New York It is great to be here.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 18, 2009
News Release: Investment will help region rebound from 2008 floods, creating jobs and strengthening local economy U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke announced today a $15.6 million Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant to reconstruct the St. Louis Municipal Terminal’s South Dock, which was damaged by extensive ...
By Commerce News Now | Dec 18, 2009
News Release: Kicking off $7.2 billion Recovery Act broadband program, Vice President Biden announced an initial $183 million in awards to expand broadband access in 17 states Related Image U.S. Commerce Deputy Secretary Dennis F. Hightower and New York Congressman Michael Arcuri traveled to The State University of ...
By Labor Gazette | Dec 18, 2009
News Release: New York – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit asking the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York to appoint an independent fiduciary to oversee the abandoned 401(k) plan of defunct Project Solutions Inc. of Rochester, N.Y.
By Fed News Journal | Dec 18, 2009
The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on Dec. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Fed News Journal | Dec 18, 2009
The US Federal Reserve System published a two page notice on Dec. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
