News from June 2009
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2009
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - At 10:30 a.m. Friday, June 26, Glacier National Park personnel swung open the gates at Logan Pass and Jackson Glacier Overlook, thereby opening the entire Going- to-the-Sun Road (Sun Road) for vehicle access across Logan Pass. Park officials report that this is the earliest opening of Logan Pass since 2006 when the pass opened on June 23.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 26, 2009
News Release: A group of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) hydraulic engineers are helping to rehabilitate aging small dams across the country.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2009
News Release: The National Park Service cordially invites everyone to be our guest at Colorado National Monument on July 18-19 and August 15-16. During these weekends, entrance fees will be waived. However, campground fees will be charged. Colorado National Monument will offer visitors the opportunity to participate in several ranger-led programs: to be announnced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, late Thursday introduced a bill to strengthen small businesses by lowering their tax burden so they can continue to create 70 percent of all net new jobs, and ideally more.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2009
News Release: Mojave National Preserve invites desert travelers to experience the photography of Walter Feller in the Desert Light Gallery at the Kelso Depot Visitor Center. Feller’s exhibit, Zzyzx: The Middle of Nowhere, will be on display until Sept. 20, 2009. The Visitor Center is 34 miles south of Interstate 15 at Baker, on Kelbaker Road, and is open every day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; telephone 760 252-6108.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 26, 2009 - Today, as the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to vote on the Democrats’ National Energy Tax Bill (H.R.2454), Republicans stood up for Rural Americans who will be disproportionately affected by this legislation.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2009
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- A Department of Energy sponsored project in Hopkins County, Kentucky has begun injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) into a mature oil field to assess the region's CO2 storage capacity and feasibility for enhanced oil recovery.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2009
News Release: Superintendent Mike Murray announced today that plans for significant improvements at several sites in the Bodie Island area of Cape Hatteras National Seashore are proceeding as planned this summer. Work has already begun on several of the projects and during the months of July and August, park visitors will see a variety of work being conducted in the area.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 “The President announced yesterday his intent to nominate Rafael Borras as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Under Secretary for Management. Rafael brings a long career in both government and the private sector to DHS as a city management official, federal government senior executive and business manager.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - UBS client, Steven Michael Rubinstein of Boca Raton, Fla., pleaded guilty today to filing a false tax return for tax year 2004, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. On Apr. 1, 2009, Rubinstein was charged with filing a false tax return that intentionally failed to disclose the existence of a Swiss bank account maintained by UBS of which he was the beneficial owner and failed to report any income earned on that account.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The co-owner of a Martinsville, N.J., landscaping company pleaded guilty to participating in a fraud conspiracy at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-designated Superfund site, Federal Creosote, located in Manville, N.J., the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2009
News Release: Carlton Moore, formerly an officer with the Memphis Police Department, pleaded guilty on Thursday in federal court in Memphis, Tenn., to three counts of violating civil rights for stealing money from motorists while acting under color of law. Moore faces up to three years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Tampa federal grand jury has charged a Florida man with criminal contempt of a federal court order in connection with the operation of a fraudulent vending machine business opportunity, the Justice Department announced today. The criminal charges form part of the government’s continued nationwide crackdown on business opportunity fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Tijani Ahmed Saani, a former civilian employee of the U.S. Department of Defense, pleaded guilty today to filing false tax returns for tax years 2003 through 2007, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and Assistant Attorney General Christine A. Varney of the Antitrust Division.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 25, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and between IT & S of Iowa, Inc., Oskaloosa, Iowa, a registered bank holding company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 25, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve on Thursday announced extensions of and modifications to a number of its liquidity programs. Conditions in financial markets have improved in recent months, but market functioning in many areas remains impaired and seems likely to be strained for some time. As a consequence, to promote ...
By Labor Gazette | Jun 25, 2009
News Release: MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today issued the following statement regarding the death of retired Maj. Gen. David F. Wherley Jr., who served as a member of the U.S. Department of Labor's Job Corps Advisory Committee: "We at the Labor Department are deeply saddened to learn about the tragic deaths of retired Air Force Maj. Gen. David F. Wherley Jr. and his wife, Ann, who died in the June 22 Metro subway accident.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 25, 2009
News Release: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending June 20, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 627,000, an increase of 15,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 612,000. The 4-week moving average was 617,250, an increase of 500 from the previous week's revised average of 616,750.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 25, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today certified for release $5,206,411 in unemployment insurance (UI) modernization incentive funds to the state of Alaska. Alaska qualified for a portion of its share of the funds available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) by allowing workers to use their more recent earnings to qualify for benefits.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 25, 2009
News Release: Mondsview, Minnesota – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a judgment in federal district court in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that orders the appointment of an independent fiduciary to terminate the 401(k) plan of a former Mondsview trucking company and to distribute the plan’s assets to participants.
