Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 22, 2013.  Mayor-led school districts can dramatically increase student achievement, according to a new report released today by the Center for American Progress. This reform strategy is often called mayoral control, and it includes replacing an elected school board with a city’s mayor. In a few instances, however,[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–Editor’s Note:  This article is being re-printed with the express permission of the author. New York Times – Out of One Gram of Marijuana, a ‘Manufactured Misdemeanor’ Jim Dwyer, March 21, 2013 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/nyregion/out-of-one-gram-of-marijuana-a-manufactured-misdemeanor.html?_r=1& For marijuana smokers in the right neighborhoods, there is no need to go out for supplies.[Read More…]

Vienna, Austria–(ENEWSPF)–March 21, 2013. Cannabis is consumed by an estimated 75 percent of all the world’s illicit drug users, making it the most widely used illicit substance in the world, according to the United Nation’s 2012 World Drug Report. Of the world’s estimated 300 million (6.6 percent of the global[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 21, 2013. This past week, for the first time in its history, Pakistan’s democratically elected government completed its entire term and is now expected to transfer power to another democratically elected government. Today the Center for American Progress released “Previewing Pakistan’s 2013 Elections,” a comprehensive source of information[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 21, 2013.  Extensive data available from more than 30 years of research reveal that children raised by gay and lesbian parents have demonstrated resilience with regard to social, psychological, and sexual health despite economic and legal disparities and social stigma. Many studies have demonstrated that children’s well-being is affected[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2013. Today, on the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, the Center for American Progress released an updated timeline of events and “The Iraq War Ledger” on the human, financial, and strategic costs of the war. CAP Senior Fellow Lawrence J. Korb released the following statement:[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 19, 2013. As the full Senate and House prepare to debate their budget resolutions for fiscal year 2014 that reflect diametrically opposed visions of American’s energy and climate futures, the Center for American Progress today released “The Clean Murray Budget Versus the Dirty Ryan Budget.” The Senate budget, authored[Read More…]

NYC Has Dubious Distinction of “Marijuana Arrest Capital of the World”; Majority of Those Arrested Are Black and Latino Youth Report Released As State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus Makes Final Push to Pass Marijuana Reform Proposal This Week NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—March 19, 2013.   A new report[Read More…]

Ever More Shocked, Never Yet Awed By David Swanson (Swanson will be speaking on this topic in Washington, D.C., on Monday, March 18th.) Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 18, 2013.  The following is a brief summary of a much longer, and fully documented, report available at http://warisacrime.org/iraq and being made available in an[Read More…]

Boston, MA–(ENEWSPF)–March 15, 2013. New research from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) shows that one year after the federal government passed a law banning word descriptors such as “light,” “mild,” and “low” on cigarette packages, smokers can still easily identify their brands because of color-coding that tobacco companies added[Read More…]