Month: April 2013

Mayor and City Officials Discuss Plans to Ensure Safe and Successful Transition for Chicago’s Students

Mayor to Cabinet: “Safe Passage is Everyone’s Responsibility” Mayor Emanuel convenes cabinet to discuss City-wide coordination to support Chicago’s students.  Photo Credit: Brooke Collins / City of Chicago CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2013.  Mayor Rahm Emanuel called his cabinet together today to discuss the coordinated approach the City will take to fully[Read More…]

Washington Hospital Center Charged for Withholding Vital Health and Safety Information from Nurses

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2013.  Washington’s biggest private hospital, Washington Hospital Center, will stand trial in July on charges by the federal government on charges of refusing to disclose critical information regarding patient safety to the union representing hospital nurses. The National Labor Relations Board issued the formal complaint last Friday[Read More…]

Senators Kirk, Durbin Join Bipartisan Group of Senators in Urging Obama to Take Action & End VA Backlog

Illinois veterans often face highest waiting times in the nation for disability claims processing WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2013.  U.S. Senators Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) yesterday joined a bipartisan group of 67 Senators in urging President Obama to take direct action and involvement in ending the current Department[Read More…]

News Conference by President Obama, April 30, 2013

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2013 -10:46 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon — or good morning, everybody.  I am here to answer questions in honor of Ed Henry, as he wraps up his tenure as president of the White House Correspondents Association.     Ed, because of that, you get the[Read More…]

Early Feast Clue to Smell of Ancient Earth

UK–(ENEWSPF)–30 April 2013. Tiny 1,900 million-year-old fossils from rocks around Lake Superior, Canada, give the first ever snapshot of organisms eating each other and suggest what the ancient Earth would have smelled like. The fossils, preserved in Gunflint chert, capture ancient microbes in the act of feasting on a cyanobacterium-like[Read More…]

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