One Day Walkout at Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano Hospitals CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–October 23, 2012. With little movement from Sutter corporate officials on their demands for sweeping reductions in patient care protections and nurses contract standards, registered nurses at Sutter hospitals in Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano counties will hold a one-day[Read More…]

Legislation Encourages Calling 911 in Drug Overdose Cases; Overdose Is the Leading Cause of Accidental Death in New Jersey Devastated Families Who Lost Loved Ones to Overdose and Five New Jersey Newspaper Editorials Demand Action Trenton–(ENEWSPF)–October 23, 2012.  Families who have lost loved ones to drug overdoses are demanding that[Read More…]

Boca Raton, Florida–(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2102 – 9:01 P.M. EDT MR. SCHIEFFER:  Good evening from the campus of Lynn University here in Boca Raton, Florida.  This is the fourth and last debate of the 2012 campaign, brought to you by the Commission on Presidential Debates.  This one is on foreign policy.  I’m[Read More…]

Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2012.  Today, the Center for American Progress released “House Republicans Persist in Putting our Foreign Service Officers at Risk,” which shows that under pressure from Republicans in the House of Representatives, Congress actually cut the Obama administration’s request for improving the physical security of our embassies[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2012. Japan’s PWRs to Be Outfitted With Hydrogen Recombiners Industry/Regulatory/Political AREVA has announced a contract to provide all 23 of Japan’s pressurized water reactors with passive autocatalytic recombiners, which will help prevent hydrogen from building up in emergency situations. The company said it will install more than[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2012. Index for Today’s Briefing DEPARTMENT Tonight’s Presidential Debate LEBANON Situation in Lebanon FBI Team PAKISTAN Abbottabad Commission Report Malala / Access to Education for Young Girls SYRIA Cease-fire Car Bombing Assad / Syrian Government JAPAN Governor of Okinawa’s US Visit / Assistant Secretary Kurt Campbell’s Meeting[Read More…]

For the First Time Consumers Will Get Federal Assistance on Complaints WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2012.  Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) began accepting consumer complaints about credit reporting, giving consumers individual-level complaint assistance for the first time at the federal level. “Credit reporting companies exert great influence over the[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–22 October 2012 – The United Nations food agency today paid tribute to former United States Senator George McGovern who died on Sunday at the age of 90, praising his efforts to combat hunger in his own country as well as abroad. “Today we have lost a tireless advocate[Read More…]

  Alexei Kravets in front of his home on the Black Sea coast in Sochi. The house is slated for demolition to make way for a key road for the 2014 Winter Olympics. © 2012 Mikhail Mordasov, Sochinskie Novosti Alexei Kravets’ home on the Black Sea coast in Sochi is[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–October 22, 2012.  Today, the Enough Project issued its first publication in a series of policy briefs focusing on the international community’s extraordinary opportunity to help support peace within Sudan and between the two Sudans.  The brief discusses the need for President Mbeki and the African Union to take bold[Read More…]