No troubles at Freeport VA clinic, says Rep. Cheri Bustos
FREEPORT — U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos said Thursday that the care provided at the city’s Veteran’s Administration outpatient clinic is superb, unlike the widespread examples of patient neglect and mismanagement that have plagued VA hospitals nationwide. Bustos’ comments came after the East Moline Democrat met with staff and patients at the Freeport clinic, 1301 Kiwanis […]
Bustos: Digital Lab will be statewide resource
STERLING – The soon-to-come Chicago-based digital manufacturing lab will be a resource for businesses in the Sauk Valley and the state, Rep. Cheri Bustos said. Bustos, D-East Moline, was in Sterling on Wednesday afternoon to meet with Mayor Skip Lee and Rock Falls Mayor Bill Wescott about economic development in the area. She also toured Wahl Clipper […]
U.S. Rep. Bustos gives Bob Michel Clinic a second look
PEORIA — The lack of a waiting list put the Bob Michel Outpatient Clinic in Peoria on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ list of locations that needed “further review,” officials say. U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-East Moline, and Dr. Dexter Hazlewood, the clinic’s chief medical officer, said a recent audit flagged a lack of […]
Futureland
The future is coming. Just ask Bill King. The University of Illinois engineering professor will tell you about a new paradigm of speed and efficiency whereby things can be made faster, better, cheaper. Airplanes, cars, weapons systems. Textiles, housewares, razors. Pencils, paper, laptops. Practically anything you can imagine that doesn’t emerge from another living creature […]