Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—July 21, 2015. The Village of Park Forest and K.K. Tyler Entertainment present ‘Broadway in Park Forest’ on Saturday, July 25 in Freedom Hall‘s Nathan Manilow Theater, 410 Lakewood Boulevard. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the show starting at 7 p.m. This event is taking our Park[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Statement On Department Of Defense Military Lending Act Final Rule
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–July 21, 2015. Today, the U.S. Department of Defense issued a final rule expanding the types of credit products that are covered by the 36-percent rate cap and other military-specific protections under the Military Lending Act. The rule closes loopholes that have led to lenders skirting the law[Read More…]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Orders Citibank to Pay $700 Million in Consumer Relief for Illegal Credit Card Practices
Millions of Consumers Harmed by Bank’s Deceptive Marketing and Unfair Billing of Credit Card Add-On Products and Services, and Other Unlawful Practices WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–July 21, 2015. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has ordered Citibank, N.A. and its subsidiaries to provide an estimated $700 million in relief to eligible[Read More…]
CAIR Urges Repudiation of ‘Reckless’ Anti-Muslim Proposals by Rand Paul, Wesley Clarke, Franklin Graham
WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 21, 2015 — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today urged national political and religious leaders to repudiate the “reckless” immigration and internment camp proposals made recently by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), former NATO Commander Gen. Wesley Clark and[Read More…]
CAIR Calls on GOP Presidential Candidates to Decline Invite to Hate Group’s N. H. Event
Cruz, Jindal, Santorum already confirmed to attend event featuring appearance by anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 21, 2015 — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on Republican presidential candidates Sen. Marco Rubio (FL), Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC), Gov. Scott Walker (WI), former governor Mike Huckabee (AR), former[Read More…]
Public Citizen: Attempt to Block IRS Rulemaking on Nonprofit Political Activity Would Exacerbate Problem of Money in Politics
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—July 21, 2015. Statement of Lisa Gilbert, Director, Public Citizen’s Congress Watch Division: An amendment to block the adoption of new regulations to clarify what constitutes political activity for nonprofits would only continue to encourage huge sums of secret contributions to be improperly funneled into our elections. It also[Read More…]
Public Citizen: Rule Protecting Military Families From Financial Predators Should Apply to All Consumers
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 21, 2015. Statement of Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen: Public Citizen applauds the U.S. Department of Defense, working in tandem with the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, for taking swift and strong action to protect military service members from predatory lenders by completing new rules intended to fulfill[Read More…]
NARAL Pro-Choice America on Kasich’s Announcement
Ohio —(ENEWSPF)–July 21, 2015. Today, Governor John Kasich is going to hold a press conference to announce his candidacy for President of the United States. Erika West, political director for NARAL Pro-Choice America, released the following statement: “It’s tough to discern what the bigger joke is, imagining John Kasich in the[Read More…]
Yemen: First UN Food Aid Arrives in Aden as Intense Fighting Takes ‘Serious Toll’ on Civilians
The MV Han Zhi carrying enough food to feed 180,000 people for one month docked on 21 July 2015 at Aden’s oil port of Al-Buraiqa, Yemen. Photo: WFP/Ammar Bamatraf GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–21 July 2015 – In “a major breakthrough,” the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced that its first ship since[Read More…]
AFL-CIO: Working Families Deserve Action on Wall Street Reform
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–July 21, 2015. On today’s fifth anniversary of The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka made the following statement: Working families have waited too long for changes required by Dodd-Frank legislation. Meanwhile, corporations continue to write their own rules. It’s a[Read More…]
