Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 9, 2013. NASA’s Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars’ past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions. In a little more than a year on the Red Planet, the mobile Mars Science Laboratory has determined the age of a Martian[Read More…]
Day: December 9, 2013
Mayor Emanuel And CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett Announce Comprehensive K-12 Computer Science Program For CPS Students
Five-Year Plan Calls for Creating a Pipeline for Computer Science in Elementary School and for every High School to Offer a Computer Science Pathway CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2013. On the first day of Computer Science Education Week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CEO Barbara Byrd Bennett announced the most comprehensive K-12 computer[Read More…]
Statement from the Office of U.S. Senator Mark Kirk, Dec. 9, 2013
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2013. The office of U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) today released the following statement: “Saturday morning Senator Mark Kirk went to Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital with stomach pains. Doctors determined that, due to the fact that he had gall stones, his gall bladder needed to be removed. This[Read More…]
Governor Quinn Announces More than 1,470 Affordable Apartments to be Built or Rehabbed
New Round of Funding to Spur Housing Construction and Preservation, Support 2,400 Jobs in Communities Across Illinois CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2013. Governor Pat Quinn today announced more than 1,470 affordable apartments will be created or preserved for working families, seniors and people with disabilities in communities across the state. Today’s announcement[Read More…]
Airman Missing From Vietnam War Accounted For, December 9, 2013
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2013. The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing from the Vietnam War, has been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. U.S. Air Force Col. Francis J. McGouldrick Jr. of[Read More…]
International Human Rights Day: Leading Coalition of African American Faith Leaders Calls For End to War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration
Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference Releases Key Findings From Yearlong Series of Hearings in Nine States CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2013. In conjunction with the December 10th 2013 commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, theSamuel DeWitt Proctor Conference (SDPC) is releasing key findings from community-based hearings it has[Read More…]
Six Out of Ten Uninsured African Americans May Be Eligible for Medicaid, CHIP or Tax Credits in the Health Insurance Marketplace
95 percent of uninsured African Americans might qualify for lower costs on coverage if all states expanded Medicaid Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 9, 2013. According to a new report released today by the Department of Health and Human Services, six out of ten (4.2 million) uninsured African Americans who may be eligible[Read More…]
Tuesday: Uruguay To Become First Country In World to Legalize Marijuana
Uruguayan Senate to Vote Tomorrow on President Mujica’s Bill to Tax and Regulate Marijuana NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—December 9, 2013. Tomorrow, the Uruguayan Senate will vote on a bill that would make their country the first in the world to legally regulate the production, distribution and sale of marijuana for adults. The[Read More…]
Alabama Man Pleads Guilty for His Role in Racially Motivated Cross Burning
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 9, 2013. Thomas Windell Smith, 24, of Dothan, Ala., turned himself in and pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday, Dec. 6, 2013, to one count of conspiring to violate housing rights, the Justice Department announced today. The information charging Smith was unsealed today. The charge relates to[Read More…]
First Public Hearing of the American Indian and Alaska Native Children Exposed to Violence Task Force Held in Bismarck, N.D.
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 9, 2013. The Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of the Task Force on American Indian/Alaska Native Children Exposed to Violence held its first public hearing today in Bismarck, N.D., convening tribal researchers, advocates and local community members to discuss domestic violence and child physical and sexual abuse in Indian[Read More…]
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