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Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced a major expansion of the City's Large Lots land sale program that will expand it into more than 30 communities across Chicago. The program, which sells vacant City-owned land to nearby homeowners for $1, is expanding to include approximately 4,000 lots on the South and West sides of the city.
The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization , which serves as a global leader in ending asbestos exposure through education, advocacy, and community; today issued the following statement from ADAO President and Co-Founder Linda Reinstein in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision to prioritize asbestos as a top 10 high-risk chemical for evaluation and regulatory action under the Lautenberg Act: "The EPA made a life-saving decision today by including asbestos in the first round of chemicals as a top 10 to be regulated under the Lautenberg Act .
President-elect Donald Trump moved to fill out his Cabinet Tuesday, tapping Georgia Rep. Tom Price to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Aides signaled that at least one other Cabinet nomination was imminent.
Okay, now that Tom Price will be Secretary of Health and Human Services, we know that the medical and social insurance system that we have had in place since 1964 and expanded dramatically in 1999 and 2010 is under severe threat. Elimination can be mostly done through reconciliation but modification needs to go through regular order.
President-elect Donald Trump moved to fill out his Cabinet Tuesday, tapping Georgia Rep. Tom Price to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Aides signaled that at least one other Cabinet nomination was imminent.
This August 2016 image provided by TheLantern.com shows Abdul Razak Ali Artan in Columbus, Ohio. Authorities identified Abdul Razak Ali Artan as the Somali-born Ohio State University student who plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on campus and then got out and began stabbing people with a knife Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, before he was shot to death by an officer.
A girl is led to an ambulance by emergency personnel following an attack at Ohio State University's campus in Columbus, Ohio, US November 28, 2016. Photo: Colin Hass-Hill/thelantern.com/Handout via Reuters.
Less than three weeks after losing to Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet in the Colorado U.S. Senate contest, Republican Darryl Glenn announced Monday that he has started a consulting firm. The El Paso County commissioner said DLG Esquire Attorney at Law will focus on assisting strategic policymakers, business and neighborhood leaders in "implementing innovative solutions to growing community challenges."
Fidel Castro's death certainly is the end of an era, that of the cult of personality that kept Cubans oppressed and without economic opportunity for decades. For more than half a century, Castro ran Cuba as a communist enclave in the new world.
North Carolina Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper grew his lead over the weekend against Republican Gov. Pat McCrory to 9,558 votes as of Monday afternoon, according to the State Board of Elections . Cooper's lawyer, Marc Elias, told reporters earlier Monday that it is "extremely unlikely" that margin breaks 10,000, the threshold that would disallow McCrory's requested statewide, taxpayer-funded recount.
The Defense Department is conducting a leaks investigation related to the sex scandal that led to the resignation of former CIA Director David Petraeus , The Associated Press confirmed Monday, the same day Petraeus was meeting with President-elect Donald Trump in New York. Petraeus, who could be in line for a Cabinet nomination, arrived at Trump Tower in early afternoon.
Ohio State reports 'active shooter' on Columbus campus An 'active shooter' was being investigated on the Ohio State campus in Columbus, authorities tweeted. Check out this story on pal-item.com: http://usat.ly/2gaTpTj Ohio State University is telling students there's an active shooter on campus and they should 'Run Hide Fight.'
Mayor Rahm Emanuel joined CTA President Dorval R. Carter Monday morning to announce that crews have finished work at five O'Hare brand CTA stations. "Today is an important milestone in our efforts to modernize transit infrastructure in Chicago, and we will continue making these much needed investments across the City to ensure we are providing the safest, most reliable service for commuters," Emanuel said in a statement before the appearance.
U.S. President Barack Obama said in 2013 that "consumers, small-business owners, and pharmacists" have benefited from the Affordable Care Act Talk that the Affordable Care Act would decimate small businesses ran rampant when the law was passed, but has it turned out to be true? The health care law has forced some small-business owners to make tough choices, with more expensive coverage requiring them to scale back or even preventing them from providing coverage to employees, they told MarketWatch. But other entrepreneurs say it has done nothing but good, allowing them to start their own businesses, stabilizing the cost of insuring employees, or simply giving them the peace of mind about getting health insurance in the future.
President-elect Donald Trump claims he only lost the popular vote to rival Hillary Clinton because of "millions of people who voted illegally." Trump's bizarre outburst, even by his standards, comes after the Clinton campaign announced that it will participate in an election recount.
New York/Mar-a-Lago [U.S.A], Nov. 28 : United States president-elect Donald Trump has attacked the Hillary Clinton campaign for coming out in support of a recount of votes in the state of Wisconsin. [NK US] Trump, according to informed sources, reminded his one-time Democratic presidential rival that she had already conceded the elections to him, and also published remarks from the presidential debates in which she had urged all Americans to accept the poll results.
Reps. Barbara Lee and Linda Sanchez are facing off for a spot in House leadership. A woman of color will be elected to join House leadership this week for the first time, and she'll be a Democrat from California.
A sculpture stands at an encampment where protesters of the Dakota Access oil pipeline have been gathered for months, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, near Cannon Ball, N.D. Protest organizers said that they have a right to stay on the land. Their statement comes a day after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told they would have to leave by Dec. 5. BISMARCK, N.D. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has set an early December deadline for American Indians and others to leave an encampment in North Dakota where they've been entrenched for months protesting the Dakota Access pipeline.