Bill Would Reclassify Simple Drug Possession as a Misdemeanor SACRAMENTO, CA–(ENEWSPF)–February 27, 2012. Today, Sen. Mark Leno introduced SB1506, which reclassifies simple drug possession offenses as misdemeanors, thereby reducing the potential sentences for these offenses from a maximum of three years imprisonment to a maximum of one year in county[Read More…]
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Remarks by President Obama at National Governors Association Meeting
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 27, 2012 – 11:30 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Please, everybody have a seat. Have a seat. Thank you, Joe, for the outstanding work you’re doing on behalf of the American people every day. I want to thank all the members[Read More…]
President Obama Challenges Governors to Invest in Education
White House Releases Education Blueprint: An Economy Built to Last Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 27, 2012. Today, President Obama delivered remarks to the National Governors Association (NGA) where he challenged governors across the nation to do their part to ensure American students and workers have the education and training they need so[Read More…]
UN Temporarily Relocates Staff from Northern Afghan Office After Attack
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–27 February 2012. The United Nations said today it is relocating international staff from its office in the northern province of Kunduz which was attacked this weekend, reportedly by protesters angry over last week’s burning of copies of the Koran by United States soldiers. “This temporary relocation takes place[Read More…]
Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders Treats Wounded in Kunduz After Protests
KABUL–(ENEWSPF)–FEBRUARY 26, 2012—Following violent protests over the reported burning of Korans at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has received 50 people at its surgical hospital in Kunduz Province in northern Afghanistan. Many patients had suffered gunshot wounds. Protests have been[Read More…]
Tuskegee Airman Visits School District 162
Dr. Blondean Y. Davis, superintendent, Matteson District 162, welcomes Tuskegee Airman Virgil Poole to Matteson School’s Black History Month celebration. On right is Pamela Powell, Matteson School principal. (Photo: Yvonne Williams). Matteson, IL – February 23, 2012– Pride and perseverance were the bywords of the day when Matteson Elementary School[Read More…]
Secretary of State Clinton’s Interview With Elise Labott of CNN, February 26, 2012
Rabat, Morocco–(ENEWSPF)–February 26, 2012. QUESTION: Madam Secretary, thanks so much for joining us. We’re here in North Africa a year after the Arab Spring. It’s a new region. Most – Islamists are in power in many of these countries. And when you were speaking in Tunis yesterday, you kind of[Read More…]
Union Square Rally to “Stand with Occupy”Against Suppression, Tuesday February 28
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–February 26, 2012. Supporters of the Occupy Movement, including the Rev. Stephen Phelps, Senior Minister at Riverside Church, civil liberties attorney Norman Siegel and musician Peter Yarrow will join Wall Street occupiers Tuesday in Union Square in response to a call for “mass action against the suppression of the[Read More…]
Afghanistan: UN Mission Deplores Attack on its Compound in Kunduz
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–25 February 2012. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today deplored the attack on its compound in the north-eastern city of Kunduz, adding that no UN staff members were hurt and that all of them have been accounted for. The mission thanked the Afghan National Security Forces[Read More…]
Sudan: Two UN-African Union Peacekeepers Wounded in Attack in Darfur
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–25 February 2012. Two peacekeepers serving in the joint African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID)were wounded when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a bus in which they were travelling near the town of El Dein in the western Sudanese region, the mission reported today. The two police officers,[Read More…]
