CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on Dec. 11, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin - November 2024": * * * Area prices were down 0.2 percent over the past month, up 3.8 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), declined 0.2 percent in   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on Dec. 11, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington area - November 2024": * * * Area prices were down 0.6 percent over the past two months, up 1.7 percent from a year ago * * * Prices in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U)  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mountain-Plains Regional Information Office issued the following report on Dec. 11, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Midwest Region - November 2024": * * * Area prices were down 0.1 percent in November, up 2.6 percent over the year * * * Prices in the Midwest Region, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), were down 0.1 percent in November, the U.S. Bur  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news: By Michael Matz * * * Key Takeaways * Better-performing film capacitors are needed for safe, reliable electric vehicles and renewable energy, but it's challenging to find suitable materials. * To accelerate the discovery of breakthrough materials, researchers developed a machine-learning technique to rapidly screen tens of thousands of polymer compounds and identified severa  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wisconsin, chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, issued the following news release on Dec. 11, 2024: Today, Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wisc.), the Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity, delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, at the start of the subcommittee's hearing to examine the effectiveness of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Vete  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wisconsin, chairman of the House Administration Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 11, 2024: Today, Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (WI-01) announced that the Committee will be holding a hearing on Wednesday, December 18, 2024 at 10 a.m. ET on prohibiting foreign interference in American elections. The hearing expands on the Committee's efforts throughout the 118th Congress to increase Americans' confidence in o  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colorado, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (CO-03) successfully passed her bipartisan Zip Code bill, H.R. 8753, unanimously through the U.S. House of Representatives today. This bipartisan bill, which now heads to the U.S. Senate, benefits communities throughout the country by requiring the Postal Service to formally designate unique zip codes within their system for 51 specific cities and towns including the Colorado   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wisconsin, issued the following news release on Dec. 11, 2024: Today, U.S. Representatives Mark Pocan (WI-02) and Barbara Lee (CA-12), co-chairs and co-founders of the Defense Spending Reduction Caucus, released the following statement after voting against the final passage of the $895 billion FY2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an annual bill neither member has voted for since being elected to Congress: "Time and time again, Congress see  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, chairwoman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas), along with Oceans Subcommittee Chair Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Ranking Member Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) introduced bipartisan legislation that would authorize $30.45 billion for the U.S. Coast Guard for Fiscal Years 2025 and 2026. "  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: Today, Congressman Derrick Van Orden (WI-03) voted in support of the Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Following his vote to pass the FY25 NDAA out of the House, Congressman Van Orden released the following statement: "President Biden has been an abject failure as Commander-in-Chief, putting our country and our allies at g  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has released the following public communication on Dec. 3, 2024, from Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger, Merrimac, Wisconsin: * * * To: Department of Veterans Affairs 38 CFR Part 3 RIN 2900-AR75 2024-21852 (89 FR 79815) SUBMITTED BY Laura Olah, Executive Director Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger (CSWAB) E12629 Weigand's Bay South, Merrimac, WI 53561 TITLE: The U.S. Department of Veterans Must Assume and Assess the   more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Dec. 12 -- Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul issued the following news release on Dec. 11, 2024: Attorney General Josh Kaul and a bipartisan Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force Tuesday warned four voice service providers that they have been transmitting suspected illegal robocall traffic on their networks on behalf of one or more of their customers. "Voice service providers have an important role to play in reducing robocalls," said Attorney General Kaul. "Tho  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Dec. 12 -- The Wisconsin Department of Justice issued the following news release on Dec. 11, 2024: OSHKOSH, Wis. - The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is conducting an officer involved death investigation in the City of Oshkosh, Wis. that occurred on the evening of Tuesday, December 10, 2024. At approximately 11:10 p.m., City of Oshkosh police officers received a 911 call of a stabbing near the 400 block of W 10th Avenue. Upon   more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Dec. 12 -- The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release on Dec. 11, 2024: The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced the city of Marshfield is an applicant for funding through the Safe Drinking Water Loan Program to improve its public drinking water system. The project includes the replacement of both public and private lead service lines throughout the city of Marshfield. Activities related to this project are mi  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Dec. 12 -- The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction issued the following news release on Dec. 11, 2024: * * * DPI one of four state agencies across the nation to partner with SWIFT Education Center * * * The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction announced it recently named three school districts as partners in an initiative to build capacity and provide academic, behavioral, social, and emotional support to students in an effort to improve educational outcomes.  more