Commentary By John A. Ostenburg Organized labor in America has two major goals during the coming year: (1) to see health care reform enacted by the Congress of the United States, and (2) to see the same body pass the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). Anyone in the nation who is[Read More…]
Month: August 2009
Not All TIFs Are Bad — Just the Ones that Aren’t Real TIFs Are Bad!
Commentary By John A. Ostenburg Even lots of informed citizens, when they hear about TIF districts, have a negative reaction. TIFs have a bad reputation and it’s not totally undeserved. First of all, let’s define what constitutes a TIF district. The acronym stands for tax increment financing. A TIF district[Read More…]
Voluntary Prodcut Recall: Chef Pierre® Gourmet Lemon Meringue Pie, Day Code 9159 Only
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2009. Chef Pierre® is voluntarily recalling a partial production run of the following foodservice product as a precautionary measure as the product may contain milk, an undeclared allergen, posing a potential serious and life-threatening health risk to milk-allergic individuals. This recall affects 4,380 cases of Chef Pierre[Read More…]
Exploring the History of Farming in the Park Forest Area
Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– With much of the South Chicagoland area now developed – our term for land now occupied by homes and businesses, infrastructure above and below – it’s sometimes hard to believe that, now all that long ago, Park Forest and surrounding areas was dominated by farmland. The Park[Read More…]
Faces of Homelessness: Meet Drew
Drew from InvisiblePeople.tv on Vimeo. Commentary Can anything prepare us for Drew’s story? Drew lost his job, then he lost his wife and daughter to a drunk driver. He is an educated man, but today he lives on leftover food he finds in dumpsters. There’s nothing I can add to[Read More…]
The Media’s Health Care Filibuster
Commentary By Jamison Foser All year, the media have told us that passage of health care reform requires not just the 51 Senate votes that would constitute a majority, but the 60 votes required to invoke cloture and shut off debate. It’s such a common refrain, the media often employ[Read More…]
Storming Camelot: Sen. Kennedy’s Death Brings Out Worst from the Right
Commentary By Karl Frisch Following Wednesday’s early-morning news that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy had lost his battle with brain cancer, Media Matters posted the following statement from president Eric Burns at 3:51 a.m. ET on the County Fair blog: “Ted Kennedy was a true American statesman. The values that he[Read More…]
Obituary: William J. Kalvelage
William J. Kalvelage William J. Kalvelage, 81, Aug. 27, 2009, longtime resident of Park Forest, IL, beloved husband of the late Charlotte, nee Luttrell; devoted father of Becky Kalvelage-Roth (Martin) of Grant Park, and Timothy (Debbie) Kalvelage of Des Plaines; loving grandfather of Stacy Roth-Mann (Phillip), Steven (Marie) Quarcini, Jeffrey[Read More…]
U.S. DEA: Michael Jackson Death Investigation Update
Los Angeles, CA–(ENEWSPF)– The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office released their findings on the cause and manner of the death of Michael Jackson Friday. This announcement affords the Los Angeles Police Department the opportunity to provide an update on the ongoing investigation. On August 20, 2009, the Los Angeles Police[Read More…]
Cook County Sheriff’s Sting Nets Would-Be Drug Buyers
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2009. More than 20 people were arrested in a suburban sting operation after they attempted to purchase drugs from undercover Cook County Sheriff’s Police officers. Police set up a “reverse sting” at two locations in Robbins – at 13921 S. Grace St.(map) and 13500 S. Woodlawn St.(map)[Read More…]