Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– From the Chicago Tribune: An extraordinary number of public school teachers in the Chicago region earned $100,000 or more in 2009, straining school budgets and taxpayer wallets and fueling the debate over what teachers are worth and how they get raises. In the affluent enclaves of Highland Park[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
White House Releases National HIV/AIDS Strategy
Washington D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– The Human Rights Campaign – the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization – today praised the release of the first comprehensive National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States as a positive step forward in the fight against HIV and AIDS nationwide, but called[Read More…]
Win or Lose in Court, You Cannot Erase the News
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director Sometimes the meaning of the 45 words of the First Amendment seems to escape even those trained in the law. In Pennsylvania last week, two judges in Centre County — home to Penn State University —[Read More…]
Treatment of Christian Campus Group Doesn’t Pass Smell Test
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes Director, Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum When the U.S. Supreme Court decided Christian Legal Society v. Martinez on June 28, was it a victory for nondiscrimination, as one side claims — or an example of religious discrimination, as the[Read More…]
Bristol-Myers Squibb Initiates a Nationwide Voluntary Recall of Coumadin® 1 mg Tablet Blister Packs
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–July 13, 2010. Bristol-Myers Squibb initiates a voluntary recall of 3 lots of physician sample blister packs of Coumadin® 1 mg tablets and 5 lots, of Coumadin 1 mg tablet hospital unit dose (HUD) blister packs. The following lot numbers are included in this recall: Physician Sample Blister[Read More…]
Wire Feed Welders Recalled by Star Asia USA Due to Burn Hazard
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 13, 2010. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.[Read More…]
Seattle Bike Supply Recalls Bicycles and Framesets Due to Fall Hazard
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 13, 2010. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.[Read More…]
Nationally, Locally, and Individually, Social Security Makes a Difference
By Andrew Salata Social Security Public Affairs Specialist Social Security reaches almost every family in the United States, and at some point touches the lives of nearly all Americans. It not only helps older Americans, but also workers who become disabled and families in which a spouse or parent dies.[Read More…]
Administration Sends Fourth Bill to BP, July 13, 2010
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–July 13, 2010. The Obama Administration today sent a fourth bill for $99.7 million to BP and other responsible parties for response and recovery operations relating to the BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. As a responsible party, BP is financially responsible for all costs associated with the response to the spill,[Read More…]
Secretary Salazar Issues New Suspensions to Guide Safe Pause on Deepwater Drilling
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 12, 2010. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) to issue new suspensions of deepwater drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), saying a pause is needed to ensure that oil and gas companies first implement adequate[Read More…]
