The Red Nose Gang will remember the 67th Anniversary of The Battle of Iwo Jima with a special broadcast this Sunday, February 19th, 2012 from 8am till 10am on WOAM Radio (1350am).
An email I received with a UIC press release attached says, "Chicago and Illinois Among Nation's Leaders in Public Corruption, Report Says."
Last week when I received news of a poll done on candidates in the 106th State Representative race and 53rd Senate race - among other state races - I moved on the story.
A petition for a veterans Bill of Rights landed in my inbox.
The U.S. Department of Commerce, on Friday, released tentative good economic news.
Wall Street 24/7 sent out an email pondering the question, "How much residents of each state owe on their mortgages."
The email said it is an interesting statistic.
Scott McCoy released a statement via email on the announcement that the Watseka/Iroquois County Tea Party are throwing their support behind his opponent criminal defense attorney Brian Gabor. A brief summary would be McCoy ain't happy.
The email was titled: "The bottom line: States demanding proof public school teachers are effective in the classroom."
Writing the headline was easy. Seeing that proof provided is a much bigger chore.
Statistics released Dec. 19, 2011, in the FBI’s Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report indicate that the number of violent crimes reported in the first six months of 2011 declined 6.4 percent when compared with figures from the first six months of 2010.
24/7 reports the percentage of Americans over the age of 18 who are married has dropped from 57% in 2000 to 51% in 2011, according to a report published by Pew Research Center. If this trend continues married people will soon be in the minority.
Illinois Statehouse News sent me an email detailing how some police agencies are under fire of an unfriendly financial sort.
Governor Pat Quinn on Jan. 2 announced the “Walk Across Illinois Challenge,” an initiative to help improve the health and wellness of Illinois residents. The Governor walked 167 miles across Illinois 10 years ago to advocate on behalf of decent healthcare for all people. Today the Governor called on state residents to walk 167 miles during 2012 to improve their own health.
Where would you suggest the governor walk off to?
Gallup reports Americans' concerns about the threat of big government continue to dwarf those about big business and big labor, and by an even larger margin now than in March 2009.
Beginning Thursday a new book club will be happening at the Eureka Public Library.
About three-quarters of registered voters (76%) say most members of Congress do not deserve re-election, the highest such percentage Gallup has measured in its 19-year history of asking this question. The 20% who say most members deserve to be re-elected is also a record low, by one percentage point.
Americans estimate that the federal government wastes 51 cents of every dollar it spends, a new high in a Gallup trend question first asked in 1979.
The Gallup Poll states, the more time Americans spend socially with family and friends, the more likely they are to report enjoyment and happiness in their lives without a lot of stress and worry.
DeWayne Bartels, editor of the Woodford Times, gets a lot of email. Some of it never makes it into the Woodford Times, because it's not about Eureka, Germantown Hills or Metamora. What to do with all of these misfit emails? Now, with Mail Call DeWayne can share some of these more interesting email tidbits with you, the reader.
