This Aug. 25, 2005, satellite image shows inbound Hurricane Katrina. The storm moved slowly, enabling heavy rains to linger longer over one area, the National Hurricane Center warned. The center forecast 6-10 inches of rain over Florida and the Bahamas, and up to 15 inches in some regions. Courtesy photo 050825-N-HG842-001.JPG[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Senator Kirk Credits Chicago Innovator, MATTER
MATTER is Home to More Than 100 Health Technology Startups; Senator Kirk is an Author of Job-Creating Policy: Healthier Innovations for America Bill CHICAGO –-(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2015. U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) today visited Chicago’s healthcare technology incubator MATTER to discuss the future of healthcare innovation with their executives, entrepreneurs[Read More…]
Rep. Jan Schakowsky Statement in Support of NLRB Joint Employer Ruling
CHICAGO –(ENEWSPF)—August 28, 2015. Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board in the Browning-Ferris Industries case revised standards for determining joint-employer status. The Board found that Browning-Ferris Industries was a joint-employer of workers hired by a contractor to staff the company’s recycling center. The joint-employer designation gives workers stronger employment protections[Read More…]
Take on Establishment, Generate Excitement, Sanders Tells DNC
MINNEAPOLIS –-(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2015. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders told the Democratic National Committee on Friday that taking on the economic and political establishment with “a campaign which generates excitement and momentum and which produces a huge voter turnout” is how to keep the White House and regain majorities in Congress[Read More…]
Duckworth, Schakowsky, Durbin Applaud FEMA Grant Award for Mount Prospect Fire Department
Mount Prospect, IL–(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2015. Today, Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky and Senator Dick Durbin applauded the Mount Prospect Fire Department for receiving a grant from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program totaling over $1.3 million dollars. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), under[Read More…]
GOP Voters In Early Primary States Oppose Federal Interference In State Marijuana Laws
Raleigh, NC–(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2015. Republican voters in the early primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire do not believe that the incoming administration ought to interfere with the enactment of state laws legalizing marijuana, according to polling data conducted by Public Policy Polling and published Tuesday by Marijuana-Majority.com. Sixty-seven percent[Read More…]
Study: Smoking Still Remains Cannabis Consumers’ Preferred Method Of Ingestion
Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2015. The majority of people who self-report consuming cannabis do so by methods that involve smoking the substance, according to nationally representative survey data published online ahead of print in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Investigators from the US Center for Disease Control and Emory University[Read More…]
Latest JAMA Studies Largely Fail To Support Past Claims About Marijuana And Brain Health
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2015 By: Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director Two new studies published online today in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) Psychiatry provide little support for previous claims that cannabis exposure is significantly harmful to the developing brain. The first study, which assessed the effects of cannabis[Read More…]
Planned Parenthood Calls on Anti-Abortion Activists to Release All Video Footage to Authorities Immediately
‘Where is the full, unedited video footage that experts say was heavily edited to distort Planned Parenthood’s work, and why won’t this group turn it over?’ WASHINGTON, DC –-(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2015. Planned Parenthood Federation of America today called on anti-abortion activists who have been posting heavily edited videos for the[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel Welcomes The Ambassador Of The Republic Of India, Arun Kumar Singh To Chicago
Mayor Emanuel Welcomes to Chicago Arun Kumar Singh, Indian Ambassador to the United States. Photo Credit: Brooke Collins // City of Chicago CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 27, 2015. Mayor Rahm Emanuel today welcomed to Chicago the Indian Ambassador to the United States Arun Kumar Singh to Chicago. Mayor Emanuel and Ambassador Singh had[Read More…]
