Day: December 22, 2016

Kellyanne Conway Named as Trump Consigliere

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–December 22, 2016 By Barbara Morrill Rudy and Chris must be so jealous: President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team announced Thursday that his former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway would join his incoming administration as counselor to the president. Conway says she is “humbled and honored.” America, on the other hand, continues[Read More…]

Rich Products Corporation Issues Nationwide Allergy Alert on Undeclared Walnuts in Certain Ice Cream Cake Products

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–December 22, 2016. Rich Products Corporation in Buffalo, NY, is voluntarily recalling approximately 6,600 cases of ice cream cake products because they may contain undeclared walnuts. People who have an allergy to walnuts run the risk of a serious life threatening allergic reaction if they consume these products.[Read More…]

In Case You Missed It — Huffington Post: 2016: Historic Victories And Devastating Setbacks In Fight Against Failed Drug War

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–December 22, 2016 By: Tony Newman, Director of Media Relations, Drug Policy Alliance For the last seven years I have written an end-of-year piece about the top stories of the year in the fight to end our disastrous war on drugs. 2016 has been a strange, difficult year. We’ve[Read More…]

Thousands Mobilized Across Illinois for Women’s March on Washington, Jan. 21, 2017

Chicago, IL –(ENEWSPF)–December 22, 2016.  Part of a nationwide groundswell that originated the day after the presidential elections, women and men from across the state of Illinois are preparing to join the national Women’s March on Washington Sat., Jan. 21, 2017 in Washington, D.C. the day after the inauguration of the next president of the[Read More…]

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Takes Second Action Against Military Credit Services for Improper Contract Disclosures

Bureau Orders Lender to Pay $200,000 Civil Penalty Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–December 22, 2016.  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) this week sued Military Credit Services, LLC for making loans with improper disclosures. This is the CFPB’s second enforcement action against MCS. In 2014, the CFPB, along with the states of[Read More…]

Pro-Bono Bond Fund Frees 50 from Cook County Jail

Project aims to free those too poor to afford bond from dangerous jail conditions as it works to end monetary bond in Illinois. CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–December 22, 2016. Pre-trial detainees languish by the thousands in grim conditions in Cook County Jail, while their livelihoods and education are undermined and their families suffer—all[Read More…]

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