CALIFORNIA—(ENEWSPF)—February 5, 2018 By: Elizabeth Landau In the year since NASA announced the seven Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, scientists have been working hard to better understand these enticing worlds just 40 light-years away. Thanks to data from a combination of space- and ground-based telescopes, we know more about[Read More…]
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Southland College Prep Takes Top Honors in IHSA Regional Individual Speech Tournament
Places First in Performance in the Round Event and Four Other Events RICHTON PARK, ILL.—(ENEWSPF)–February 5, 2018 By: Richard Barry Southland College Prep Charter High School, a new Richton Park, Illinois public charter high school, won first place in the Illinois High School Association’s Regional Individual Speech Event tournament hosted[Read More…]
Trump’s Attack on Immigrants Undermines America’s Child Care System and Represents Another Broken Campaign Promise
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)—February 5, 2018 By: Leila Schochet President Donald Trump promised to promote access to child care; however, threatening the security of immigrants and their families directly undermines America’s child care system. A new column from the Center for American Progress examines the outsized role that immigrants play in filling the need for[Read More…]
5th District U.S. Congressional Candidate ‘Fully Supports’ Recreational Use of Cannabis
CHICAGO,IL—(ENEWSPF)—February 5, 2018 By: Tom Lupa U.S. Congressional candidate Benjamin Thomas Wolf congratulated California on legalizing recreational use of cannabis this week. Citing the billions of dollars that would be made in revenue should cannabis be legalized, Wolf has thrown his full support behind legalization in the State of Illinois[Read More…]
Backpacking the John Muir Trail at February Meeting of Sauk-Calumet Sierra Club Group
MATTESON—(ENEWSPF)—February 5, 2018 By: Patrick Coffey The next meeting of the Sauk-Calumet Sierra Club Group will be on Monday, February 12th, at the Frankfort Public Library, 21119 Pfeiffer Rd. in Frankfort at 7:15 pm. The program will highlight a father-daughter team who backpacked the John Muir Trail in California this past summer. Mel[Read More…]
“Step Back into a 1950s Valentine’s Day” Exhibit at 1950s Park Forest House Museum
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—February 3, 2018 By: Jane Nicoll The 1950s Park Forest House Museum, at 227 Monee Road (inside St. Mary’s Catholic Church), Park Forest, Illinois, invites you to “Step Back into a 1950s Valentine’s Day,” from February 3 -March 7, 2018, open Wednesday and Saturday, 1 to 3:30 p.m.;[Read More…]
Southern Poverty Law Center Demands Records from DHS After Detained Immigrant Dies
ALABAMA—(ENEWSPF)—February 2, 2018. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency after the death this week of Yulio Castro-Garrido, a 33-year-old Cuban immigrant who was detained at[Read More…]
Village of Park Forest Receives Highest Designation for Efforts in Solar
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—February 2, 2018. Today, the national SolSmart program recognized 15 Chicago-area municipalities and counties for making it faster, easier, and more affordable for residents and businesses to go solar. Park Forest was among those honored. These communities have taken bold steps to encourage solar energy growth and remove[Read More…]
“House Republicans are Now Accomplices” in Efforts to Obstruct Justice
Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—February 2, 2018. Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee, issued a joint statement following the release of the “Nunes memo,” a set of misleading talking points drafted by the Republican staff of the House Permanent Select Committee[Read More…]
NASA’s Newly Rediscovered IMAGE Mission Provided Key Aurora Research
Greenbelt, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—February 2, 2018 By: Miles Hatfield On Jan. 20, 2018, amateur astronomer Scott Tilley detected an unexpected signal coming from what he later postulated was NASA’s long-lost IMAGE satellite, which had not been in contact since 2005. On Jan. 30, NASA — along with help from a community of[Read More…]
