OREGON–(ENEWSPF)–January 29, 2016. As promised, Donald Trump skipped last night’s Republican Presidential Candidate Debate on the FOX network because Trump could not dictate the terms of the debate.  On his Thursday night show, Stephen Colbert said, “If Fox News has no Trump, then I am all Trump.”  Enjoy “The 2016[Read More…]

Court Orders North Carolina to Pay Fees in Lawsuit Against Forced Ultrasound Law WASHINGTON DC –(ENEWSPF)–January 29, 2016.   In another blow to anti-abortion politicians and extremists, a district judge in North Carolina ordered that the state pay a sum of over $1 million in payments to Planned Parenthood, Center[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 29, 2016 By: Lilly Ledbetter – HFA Blog My story paved the way for the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Together we can fulfill its promise. When I became an overnight shift manager at the Goodyear plant in 1979, there weren’t many women on the job (and the[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 28, 2016.  Statement of NOW President Terry O’Neill: Seven years ago, President Obama signed into law his first piece of legislation. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act that undid the damage of a 2007 Supreme Court decision that made it nearly impossible for women to enforce the Equal[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2016.  Bob Fioretti, Democratic candidate for State Senate of the 5th District made the following statement following Governor Rauner’s State of the State Address: Gov. Rauner’s State of the State address today identified many of the problems we have in Illinois, but it frequently misrepresented the source of[Read More…]

Springfield –(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2016.   The following is a statement from Dan Lesser, Director of Economic Justice for the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, on behalf of the Responsible Budget Coalition: Hundreds of veterans, seniors, people with disabilities, immigrants, faith leaders, students, children, and working families traveled to[Read More…]

Drug Policy Alliance: “Chairman Mendelson and Mayor Bowser Rigged the Process Against the People” Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2016.  Today the Council of the District of Columbia Committee on the Judiciary voted to dilute the will of District voters who approved Ballot Initiative 71 by passing unnecessary legislation largely outlawing adult marijuana use in the[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 26, 2016.  Statement of NOW President Terry O’Neill: Republicans in Congress thought the fix was in when Texas’ Republican Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick asked a Rick Perry-appointed District Attorney to open a criminal investigation into Planned Parenthood, following the release of undercover videos concocted to spread malicious lies[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)–January 26, 2016.  The U.S. Department of Justice today released its first-ever guidance on solitary confinement, Report and Recommendations Concerning the Use of Restrictive Housing, and President Obama announced in a Washington Post op-ed that he has adopted the report’s recommendations to overhaul the use of solitary in[Read More…]

NEW MEXICO–(ENEWSPF)–January 26, 2016 By: Robert M. Bernstein, MD, FACE, President, Physicians for Social Responsibility, New Mexico Chapter Physicians for Social Responsibility applauds the Bureau of Land Management for undertaking the proposed methane waste rule released last week. Offering more than just financial and environmental gains, the rule has the[Read More…]