News from June 2010
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2010
News Release: Students, like Kathryn Lee Cooper, from the Field School of Maritime History and Underwater Research with East Carolina University (ECU), along with the National Park Service Submerged Cultural Resource Unit, the UNC-Coastal Studies Institute, the NC State Underwater Archeology Unit and NOAA Monitor...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 17, 2010
News Release: House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Chairman Leonard Boswell, D-Iowa, today held the Subcommittee’s first hearing to review U.S. farm safety net programs in advance of the 2012 Farm Bill.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2010
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Chip seal projects are scheduled to begin at Grand Canyon National Park on both the South and North Rims. The project is being managed by, and funded through the Federal Lands Highway Program using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The primary...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2010
News Release: Last week, I discussed the unfinished tax legislative business. I used this chart. The legislation before the Senate deals with only one small, but important, piece of unfinished tax legislative business. These tax extenders are on their second Senate stop. As the chart shows, the tax extenders, which are overdue by almost half-a-year, are not alone. There are three other major areas of unfinished business.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 17, 2010
News Release: Crimson, a new cranberry dry bean cultivar, is now available for production in the form of foundation seed that could give rise to a new bumper crop of the colorful legume for 2010.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2010
News Release: The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) prohibits the use of fireworks on all BLM-managed public lands throughout Oregon and Washington. "With the wet and cool spring we have had it's easy to forget how warm and dry it was last winter. Even though the snow arrived later, the snowpack is melting at a...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON-John Pistole, the Administration’s third nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), testified Thursday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which is led by Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2010
News Release: Dear Secretary Salazar: I am writing with great concern over the Department of Interior’s sudden and unexpected June 16th announcement that a significant delay in the distribution of Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) will occur and not be resolved until “late July." This delay is unacceptable and threatens...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2010
News Release: Lee Bentley Farkas, the former chairman of a private mortgage lending company, Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (TBW), was arrested last night in Ocala, Fla., and charged in a 16-count indictment for his alleged role in a more than $1.9 billion fraud scheme that contributed to the failures of Colonial Bank, one of the 50 largest banks in the United States in 2009, and TBW, one of the largest privately held mortgage lending companies in the United States in 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that Benjamin Haskell,23, of Springfield, Mass., pleaded guilty to a superseding information charging him with two crimes related to the burning of the Macedonia Church of God in Christ, a predominantly African-American church, in Springfield on the morning after President Barack Obama was elected as the first African-American President of the United States.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 16, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among Mid State Banks, Inc., Hawkinsville, Georgia, a registered bank holding company, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and the State of Georgia Department of Banking and Finance. A copy of the Written Agreement is attached.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 16, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among Patterson Bankshares, Inc., Patterson, Georgia, a registered bank holding company, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and the State of Georgia Department of Banking and Finance. A copy of the Written Agreement is attached.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 16, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced the issuance of a Consent Order of Assessment of a Civil Money Penalty against Monarch Bank, Chesapeake, Virginia, a state member bank. Monarch Bank, without admitting to any allegations, consented to the issuance of the Order in connection with its alleged violations of the Board's regulations implementing the National Flood Insurance Act.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 16, 2010
News Release: Thank you, Dave, for your kind introduction.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 16, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the implementation of tougher penalties against employers that illegally employ child workers.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 16, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today issued the following statement in response to the report "Weeding out Abuses: Recommendations for a Law-abiding Farm Labor System" co-authored by Farmworker Justice and Oxfam America: "This report makes clear that farmworkers face a number of ...
By Labor Gazette | Jun 16, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced $14.7 million in health care career grants authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The four grantees are the American Association of Community Colleges, Goodwill Industries International, the International Association ...
By Labor Gazette | Jun 16, 2010
News Release: house asset managers Washington – The U.S Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration is proposing to amend Prohibited Transaction Exemption (PTE) 96-23. PTE 96-23 is a class exemption that allows in-house managers of large employee benefit plans to engage in a wide range of transactions with related parties.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 16, 2010
News Release: Washington – The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today announced an amendment to an existing class exemption that expands the category of assets that can be accepted as settlement of litigation between employee benefit plans and related parties.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 16, 2010
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on June 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
