WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2013. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood yesterday announced $12.5 million in grants for 29 projects in 20 states to improve access to America’s national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges. The selected projects will help reduce traffic congestion and make it easier for millions of visitors to enjoy the[Read More…]
Year: 2013
Fix the Debt Statement on New Simpson-Bowles Framework
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2013. The following is a statement from Maya MacGuineas, President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt: “The Campaign to Fix the Debt is pleased that Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson have released a fiscal framework that[Read More…]
Austria: Reform Needed After European Court Adoption Victory for Lesbian Couple
The European Court of Human Rights (Photo by CherryX via Wikimedia Commons) NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2013. A European Court of Human Rights ruling that Austria discriminated against a woman by refusing to consider her request to adopt her female partner’s biological child, must be followed by legal reform Amnesty International[Read More…]
GDP Predicts Auto Sales Worldwide
ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2013. Personal income, interest rates and the price of gas all influence auto sales, but a country’s gross domestic product alone is a good indicator of new sales, says a researcher at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. In a new study of 48 countries, UMTRI[Read More…]
When Selecting a Child’s Doctor, Families Prefer Grapevine Over Online Ratings
However, younger parents are more likely to say online scores for physicians are very important, according to U-M’s National Poll on Children’s Health ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2013. Numerous websites are available to rate just about any service or product: restaurant food, hotel service and even a pediatrician’s care. However,[Read More…]
Water on the Moon: It’s Been There All Along
Called the “Genesis Rock,” this lunar sample of unbrecciated anorthosite collected during the Apollo 15 mission was thought to be a piece of the moon’s primordial crust. In a paper published online Feb. 17 in Nature Geoscience, a University of Michigan researcher and his colleagues report that traces of water[Read More…]
Prairie State College Selected as Regional Hosting Site for 2013 College Goal Sunday
CHICAGO HEIGHTS—(ENEWSPF)—February 19, 2013. Prairie State College (PSC) was selected as one of the regional hosting sites for this year’s College Goal Sunday. The event will be held 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Matteson Area Center, located at 4821 Southwick Drive in Matteson. College Goal[Read More…]
Understanding the Female Brain
Women’s Neurology Center focuses on gender specific care and research for neurological issues CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2013. First diagnosed with epilepsy when she was 17 years old, Ann O’Shea experienced one to two seizures a year before getting her condition under control with a medication called lamotrigine. When she decided to[Read More…]
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Bowles Simpson Plan
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 19, 2013. “Once again, Bowles and Simpson have produced a plan that tells working people to “drop dead.” In December 2010, Bowles and Simpson put forward a budget blueprint that proposed to cut tax rates for corporations and the richest Americans and eliminate taxes on overseas corporate profits,[Read More…]
New Bowles Simpson Plan Unveiled
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 19, 2013. Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson have released a new deficit-reduction plan today. The plan from the Democrat Bowles and Republican Simpson would reduce the deficit by $2.4 trillion over the next decade. House Republicans want to cut the deficit by $4 trillion, while the White House[Read More…]
