Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 14, 2013. Edgar’s Place Coffee House proudly presents The Schitcklers on Saturday, November 9 at 8 p.m. Edgar’s Place Coffee House is located in the Unitarian Universalist Community Church (UUCC), 70 Sycamore Drive, Park Forest. The accomplished musicians that make up The Schticklers are Barb Silverman, lively[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 11, 2013. By Adrienne Spiegel Today is the 25th Annual National Coming Out Day, a day to celebrate and support people who are coming out and people who already have come out as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, allied with LGBT people, or otherwise having an expansive notion of[Read More…]

Ethan Nadelmann’s Visionary Speech on How Society Should Deal with Drug Use NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—October 11, 2013. Editor’s Note: We’d like to thank Tony Newman for providing us with this article for reprint. Why are some drugs legal and others illegal? Who are the people who make up the drug policy[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 11, 2013. Seniors’ Issues Front and Center in Government Shutdown, Debt Ceiling Talks On Wednesday, a letter instigated by Rep. Reid Ribble (R-WI) was signed by 51 House Republicans, urging Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to make cuts to Social Security benefits before the debt ceiling is raised and[Read More…]

Illinois Solar Energy Association hosting tours of solar facilities throughout Chicago Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 11, 2013. In the October 2013 edition of Governor Quinn’s Sustainability Newsletter, a number of grant opportunities are highlighted for solar and wind energy, electric vehicle charging stations and energy efficiency retrofits. These grants are available[Read More…]

CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 10, 2013. Chicago United recently announced that Miroslava Mejia Krug, senior vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer of Roosevelt University, is one of 45 local business executives to be featured in its newest Business Leaders of Color (BLC) publication. The publication highlights exceptional corporate and[Read More…]

NEW JERSEY–(ENEWSPF)–October 10, 2013. Today, a state judge in New Jersey ruled that same-sex couples must be allowed to marry in New Jersey. Ruling in the case Garden State Equality v. Dow, the judge stated in order to obtain equal protection of the law under the New Jersey constitution, same-sex[Read More…]

People living in and on trash. Turning trash into instruments of heavenly music. The human spirit cannot be held down, cannot be crushed. Watch this amazing, amazing video. Just watch the first 53 seconds. You will want to watch more. We promise.

ALBUQUERQUE, NM–(ENEWSPF)–October 9, 2013.  Today, nearly 140 faith leaders from rural and urban ministries across the state and representing a broad cross-section of denominations and faith traditions, endorsed the freedom to marry for all New Mexicans in a full page ad that ran in the Albuquerque Journal, The Santa Fe[Read More…]