Senators urge emergency action to save river barge traffic
A group of U S senators urge President Obama to issue an emergency declaration to ease Mississippi River barge traffic amid drought. They seek higher upper Missouri River dam outflow and removal of rocks in the middle Mississippi. The Senate effort accompanies a Waterways Council Inc. call for swift federal help.
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St. Louis
U.S
Barack Obama
Mississippi River
Claire McCaskill
Associated Press
Missouri River
McCaskill
Drew Pusateri
Pusateri
Missouri
Jay Nixon
Army Corps of Engineers
Gavins Point
South Dakota
Omaha
Neb
Mississippi
Roy Blunt
R-Mo
Obama
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Mike Toohey
Waterways Council Inc
Great Lakes decline hits Onekama harbors and towns
As water levels on Lakes Michigan and Huron plunge, Onekama and other small lakefront towns face economic losses and reduced harbor access. With federal funding scarce, locals raise funds for dredging while canals and inland waterways dry up, threatening tourism and boating economies across the region.
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Onekama
Mich
Lake Michigan
Great Lakes
Michigan
Huron
Erie
Ontario
Superior
Dave Meister
Portage Lake
Army Corps of Engineers
Congress
Minnesota
New York
Corps of Engineers
John Flesher
Northside ISD tests student locator chips in IDs
In a Texas district, RFID locator chips embedded in student IDs track 4200 pupils on two campuses. The program aims to boost attendance funding by $30 per counted student, while drawing privacy and religious concerns from students like 15-year-old Andrea Hernandez and her family. A judge may decide on Hernandez’s transfer to a different campus.
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Austin
Texas
Andrea Hernandez
San Antonio
Hernandez
Northside Independent School District
Ronald Stephens
National School Safety Center
Northside
Pascual Gonzalez
Tobacco firms ordered to publish statements on deception
A federal judge ruled tobacco companies must issue corrective statements admitting they lied about smoking risks. The notices accuse the industry of deliberate deception and state smoking kills far more people than major causes combined, including over 3,000 yearly deaths from secondhand smoke.
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Nariman el
Washington
U.S
Gladys Kessler
Kessler
Justice Department
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