Report Also Includes In-Depth Look at Consumer Complaints in New Mexico WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–May 24, 2016. Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its monthly consumer complaint snapshot, highlighting credit reporting complaints. The report shows that consumers continue to complain about incorrect information on their credit reports as[Read More…]
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Bathroom Laws Targeting Transgender People Further Criminalize Their Lives
New report examines how transgender people suffer higher rates of incarceration and abuse in the criminal justice system. Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–May 24, 2016. Bathroom laws targeting transgender people contribute to a pattern of criminalizing individuals solely based on their gender identity, according to a landmark report released today. The[Read More…]
ACLU Comment On Sheriff Arpaio Contempt Ruling
Phoenix, AZ-(ENEWSPF)- A federal court has found Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his top deputies in contempt for repeatedly violating court orders to stop racially profiling Latinos as part of unlawful enforcement operations targeting immigrants. The ruling stems from an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, Ortega Melendres v. Arpaio, in[Read More…]
Podcast: This Week In Drugs With David Bratzer: This Time It’s History
LEAP-(ENEWSPF)- From our friends at “LEAP,” Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. http://www.leap.cc
Toni Preckwinkle Will Neither Endorse Nor Promote Proposal That Clerk of Circuit Court be Appointed
Commentary, Report By Gary Kopycinski Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle released a statement indicating that she is “neither endorsing nor promoting” a proposal by Commissioner Peter Silvestri that the Clerk of the Circuit Court be appointed, not elected. The current clerk, Dorothy Brown, was recently dubbed “Dorothy the[Read More…]
Park Forest Fire Department, Recreation and Parks, Have Their Budget Hearing
Analysis, Commentary, Report By Gary Kopycinski Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- The penultimate night of budget hearings featured reports by the Park Forest Fire Department and Recreation and Parks. The meeting was this past Tuesday, May 10. Arriving after the 6:00 p.m. start time, the discussion between the PFFD and mayor was[Read More…]
Educators, LGBT Advocates Slam General Assembly for Refusing DOJ Order to End Civil Rights Violation
Raleigh, N.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Monday, at a press conference in Raleigh, NC, the Human Rights Campaign, Equality NC, the North Carolina Association of Educators, and Campus Pride blasted Governor Pat McCrory for filing a lawsuit defending his deeply discriminatory HB2. “There’s been bipartisan opposition to bills like HB2 for good reason. It is[Read More…]
Watch: Hillary Clinton Slams Donald Trump In New Ad … Without Saying A Thing
(ENEWSPF)- Hillary Clinton slams Donald Trump in a new ad. Without saying a thing. She lets the GOP speak for her. "President Trump" is a dangerous proposition. Mitt Romney, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio agree.https://t.co/fUkISvgaXC — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 4, 2016
Village Staff Introduces FY 2016-2017 Annual Park Forest Budget To The Sound Of Crickets
Commentary Park Forest, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Village staff Monday introduced the fiscal year 2016-2017 budget to a board that asked no questions. It was odd. A lengthy presentation by Director of Finance Mary Dankowski and Village Manager Tom Mick followed by … crickets. Not one question or observation. Except for Mayor John[Read More…]
Physicians for Human Rights Responds to Kunduz Hospital Airstrike Report
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2016. The Defense Department today released the redacted report of its internal investigation into the U.S. military airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Since the attack last October, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has been pressing the White House and the Pentagon to[Read More…]
