Park Forest-(ENEWSPF)- Last night at the Village Board meeting, a resolution honoring Chief Clifford Butz was read by Mayor John Ostenburg. Chief Butz is retiring at the end of January with over 32 years of service to the Park Forest Police Department, and 35 total years in law enforcement. Throughout[Read More…]
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Grateful Dead Original Members To Perform Together Again One Last Time
Grateful Dead Original Members Reunite to Celebrate 50th Anniversary CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2015. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Grateful Dead, the four original members — Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir — will reunite at Chicago’s Soldier Field, nearly 20 years to the day of the last[Read More…]
NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Golf Committees Announce Regional, Championship Sites
INDIANAPOLIS –(ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2015. The NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Golf Committees have selected Eugene, Oregon (Eugene Country Club) and Sugar Grove, Illinois (Rich Harvest Farms) as the sites for the 2016 and 2017 Division I Men’s and Women’s Golf Championships. In addition, the committees selected 23 other cities[Read More…]
Supreme Court Will Hear Four Cases Challenging Ban on Marriage for Same-Sex Couples
NEW YORK –-(ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2015. The U.S. Supreme Court granted review of a federal appeals court ruling that upheld bans in four states on the freedom to marry and recognition of marriages of same-sex couples legally performed in other states. The Court granted review of petitions from all four states[Read More…]
Attorney General Holder Statement on Supreme Court Decision to Hear Same-Sex Marriage Cases
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 16, 2015. Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear four cases on same-sex marriage equality: “After the Justice Department’s decision not to defend the constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, the Supreme Court sent a powerful[Read More…]
Alliance for Retired Americans Friday Alert, Jan. 16, 2015
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2015. Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price Has Social Security in his Crosshairs Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), the new House Budget Committee chairman, hinted to the Heritage Foundation on Monday that he has big plans for Social Security “reform” in the next two years, according to the Atlanta[Read More…]
White House Big Block of Cheese Day Is Back, and It’s Feta Than Ever
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 16, 2015. Here at the White House, we’re dedicated to making President Obama’s administration the most open and accessible in history. That’s why, for the second year in a row, we thought it’d be a gouda idea to brie-unite a certain cast of characters to help us bring[Read More…]
Federal Judge Orders Michigan to Respect Legal Marriages of 300 Same-Sex Couples
New York –(ENEWSPF)–January 15, 2015. Today U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith ruled that Michigan must respect the marriages of the approximately 300 same-sex couples who married after Judge Bernard Friedman struck down marriage discrimination last March. The decision rebukes the state for refusing to respect those marriages. The ruling came[Read More…]
Roosevelt University’s Prof. Choca Talks About Opening Relations with Cuba, His Childhood There
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 15, 2015. Professor of Psychology James Choca, a native of Havana, Cuba, spoke last month after news broke that President Barack Obama would establish full diplomatic relations with Cuba and call on Congress to lift the 55-year-old trade embargo. Choca is 69 and left Cuba with his parents and[Read More…]
Egypt: 26 Acquitted of Homosexual Conduct
Berlin –(ENEWSPF)—January 13, 2015. The acquittal in Egypt on January 12, 2015, of 26 men accused of “practicing debauchery,” is a rare success in protecting the rights to privacy and nondiscrimination. The men were arrested at a bathhouse in Cairo on December 7, 2014. Government prosecutors have appealed the decision,[Read More…]
