Commentary By Gary Kopycinski So, about that water issue in Park Forest… It’s about the pipes. All 72 miles of them. I was at a meeting tonight with some Park Forest residents. At the very end of the meeting, someone mentioned the quality of water in her residence. She said[Read More…]
Opinion
Audubon Society: The Gulf One Year Later – Still Waiting For Love
New York NY–(ENEWSPF)–April 19, 2011. A year after the Gulf oil disaster, Sue Galliano doesn’t want our pity. She just wants us to act like grown-ups. Especially Congress, which still hasn’t allocated a dime to restoring the Southeast’s natural storm buffers. Those wetland barriers protect places, but they also cradle[Read More…]
Joint Op-ed by President Obama, Prime Minister Cameron and President Sarkozy: ‘Libya’s Pathway to Peace’
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 2011. The op-ed below by President Barack Obama, Prime Minister David Cameron and President Nicolas Sarkozy will appear in tomorrow’s International Herald Tribune, Le Figaro, and Times of London. Libya’s Pathway to Peace Joint Op-ed by Barack Obama, David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy Together with our NATO[Read More…]
AARP Endorses Bipartisan Bill to Improve Care for People in Medicare
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 2011. AARP today announced its endorsement of the Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act, a bipartisan bill in the House and Senate to help confront the large out-of-pocket costs people in Medicare can face as the result of a hospital observation stay. The legislation, sponsored by Sens. John[Read More…]
Statement by Common Cause on Today’s House Oversight Committee Hearing on ‘Tough Choices’
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 2011. The following statement is attributed to Common Cause President Bob Edgar. The “tough choices ahead” for state and local governments that are the focus of a hearing today in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee deserve the best thinking of our smartest economists, administrators and[Read More…]
Justice Department Wrong To Let Torture Lawyers Off The Hook, Says ACLU
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 2011. The American Civil Liberties Union today condemned a statement by the Department of Justice (DOJ) indicating that it will not prosecute two lawyers who helped develop the Bush-era torture program. In a letter to Spanish Judge Eloy Velasco Nuñez dated March 1 but made public yesterday,[Read More…]
Pollack Statement on the President’s Fiscal Policy Speech
Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—April 13 2011. By: Ron Pollack, Executive Director for Families USA In a speech today, President Obama today offered his vision for reducing the federal deficit. The following is the statement of Ron Pollack, Executive Director of the health consumer organization Families USA, about the President’s speech: “The[Read More…]
Trumka Statement on the President’s Fiscal Policy Speech
Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—April 13, 2011. By: Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO President Today, President Obama gave a promise to America’s working people that he wouldn’t follow the path of the radical Republican fiscal agenda that leads to lost jobs and a national decline of standards. That commitment is essential at this crucial moment[Read More…]
How The Model for the Affordable Care Act Is Working and Broadly Popular
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 13, 2011. The Affordable Care Act was signed into law one year ago. It is modeled in large part on the landmark Massachusetts health reform law enacted four years earlier in 2006. Opponents of the Affordable Care Act often attack it by distorting the facts about the Massachusetts[Read More…]
Ha! Suddenly Breitbart Thinks The Birthers Are Out Of Bounds?
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Lots of chatter about a Washington Independent article in which David Weigel, reporting from the Tea Party convention, captured Andrew Breitbart and RW birther nut Joseph Farah having a heated exchange about the whole birther crusade. Breirtbart castigated Farah’s obsession as being "self-indulgent", "narcissistic," and being "a losing issue" for Republicans[Read More…]
