Commentary By Frank Schaeffer From The Brad Blog: Before he’d served even one year President Obama lost the support of the easily distracted Left and engendered the white hot rage of the hate-filled Right. But some of us, from all walks of life and ideological backgrounds — including this white, straight, 57-year-old,[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
AARP Applauds Senate for Moving Health Care Reform Forward
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–December 21, 2009. AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond released this statement following the Senate’s vote to move forward with health care reform. AARP designated this morning’s cloture vote on the manager’s amendment to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as an “AARP Key Vote.” The Association will record[Read More…]
SEIU President Vows to Fight to Improve Health Reform Bill, Calls Out GOP for ‘Rooting for America to Fail’
WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 21, 2009. Statement of Andy Stern, president of the 2.2 million member Service Employees International Union, the largest healthcare union in the country: “Tonight, sixty Senators voted to bring the American people one step closer to reforming our health insurance system. “While the process to get to sixty[Read More…]
CBO: Correction Regarding the Longer-Term Effects of the Manager’s Amendment to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 21, 2009. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has discovered an error in the cost estimate released yesterday related to the longer-term budgetary effects of the manager’s amendment to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Correcting that error has no impact on the estimated effects of the legislation[Read More…]
Threats To Religious Liberty In 2009, Mountains And Molehills
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes First Amendment Center senior scholar A very bad year for religious liberty got worse earlier this month when the Russian Supreme Court upheld a regional court ruling prohibiting Jehovah’s Witnesses from gathering to worship and banning their publications as “extremist” literature.[Read More…]
Park Forest Running Club Presents Scholarship
Neal Rock (right) congratulates Timothy Murphy, one of the recipients of the Park Forest Running and Pancake Club’s annual scholarship. (Photo: ENEWSPF) Richton Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Timothy Murphy, one of the recipients of the Park Forest Running and Pancake Club’s annual scholarship, shakes hands with Neal Rock, President of the PFRPC.[Read More…]
Workshop Planned on Lincoln Highway Project
Transit-oriented development is join product of three municipalities Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A workshop on the Lincoln Highway transit-oriented development (TOD) will be held at 7 p.m. on January 17 at the Dining-on-the-Green Banquet Hall in downtown Park Forest. The TOD is planned adjacent to the Metra station on Lincoln Highway.[Read More…]
Park Forest Village Board on Recess from Meetings for Holidays
Next Village Board meeting will be held on Monday, January 4, 2010 Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The Park Forest Village Board held its last meeting of 2009 on December 14 and will not meet again until January 4, 2010. The Rules Committee meeting on that evening will begin at 8 p.m.[Read More…]
PSC Shoe Drive Commemorates Victims of 9/11
Chicago Heights, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Prairie State College (PSC) recently finished a shoe drive conducted as a way to remember the victims of the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001. Tiffany Bohm, adjunct professor of political science, asked the students from the International Relations and American Government courses to donate[Read More…]
Sertoma Centre and Venetia’s Home Accents Team Up for Holiday Fundraiser
Orland Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Sertoma Centre, Inc. invites you to a night of holiday shopping at Venetia ’s Home Accents on Monday December 21st from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. A portion of all sales that night will be donated to Sertoma Centre. Please come and take the opportunity to make[Read More…]
