Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 10, 2011. It isn’t often that a map visually displays a moral issue facing a divided nation and then affects a President’s response. Yet nearly 150 years ago, the U.S. Coast Survey — NOAA’s predecessor organization — produced such a map that, according to historians, President Abraham Lincoln[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Show Me the Money–Conservatives Demonstrate That Cuts Alone Won’t Balance the Budget
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 10, 2011. Conservatives for almost two years now have claimed that the federal budget deficit is solely a spending problem—and that the solution, therefore, is to just cut spending as deeply as possible. Before the 2010 congressional elections, then-House of Representatives Minority Leader Boehner (R-OH) promised to find[Read More…]
White House Press Gaggle by Robert Gibbs aboard Air Force One, Feb. 10, 2011
En Route Marquette, Michigan–(ENEWSPF)–February 10, 2011 – 11:20 A.M. EST Q Can you start by just telling us what you have learned and what you know about these reports? MR. GIBBS: You know, I am watching much of what you’re watching. I don’t — again, we’re watching, I think, a[Read More…]
Airmen Missing in Action From WWII Identified, Feb. 10, 2011
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 10, 2011. The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of 11 U.S. servicemen, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors. Army Air Forces Technical Sgt. Charles[Read More…]
Illinois Looks to Students to Help Spread Digital Safety Message
SPRINGFIELD—(ENEWSPF)—February 10, 2011. The Illinois State Board of Education, Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office and the Illinois Lieutenant Governor’s Office today launched the second statewide Illinois Youth Digital Safety Contest to raise awareness about making safe and respectful choices through digital communications. The contest, open to students in grades kindergarten[Read More…]
House Hears Testimony On Electronic Employment Verification System
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—February 10, 2011. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement today held a hearing on the merits of E-Verify, an electronic employment eligibility verification screening system. Some legislative proposals would mandate checking E-Verify – an error-prone database of all those eligible to work in the U.S. – before[Read More…]
Arnold Schwarzenegger to Join Secretary Chu at ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit
Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–February 10, 2011. Two weeks after President Obama focused on innovation in his State of the Union address, the U.S. Department of Energy announced today that former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will keynote the second annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. Designed to bring together key players from across[Read More…]
Surgery on Fetus Reduces Complications of Spina Bifida
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–February 10, 2011. A surgical procedure to repair a common birth defect of the spine, if undertaken while a baby is still in the uterus, greatly reduces the need to divert, or shunt, fluid away from the brain, according to a study by the National Institutes of Health and[Read More…]
Uninsured Americans with Pre-existing Conditions Continue to Gain Coverage through Affordable Care Act
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 10, 2011. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today made new resources available to consumer groups, states, health care providers, and others to increase awareness of the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP), a health plan for uninsured Americans with pre-existing conditions created by the Affordable[Read More…]
Hall of Fame Inductee Richard Dent Speaks at Park Forest Business Breakfast (Video)
Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Hall of Fame inductee and former Chicago Bears defensive end Richard Dent speaks at this morning’s Business Breakfast at Dining on the Green. Details of Dent’s partnership with Mayor John Ostenburg, the Village Board and citizens of Park Forest will follow.
