Commentary The Oak Forest mayor and board are wrong for considering the elimination of the position of Village Manager. Steger has apparently already gone off the deep end, voting to eliminate the position of Village Administrator. This is wrong – and dangerous – on so many levels. Here’s the danger:[Read More…]
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Wolin Op-Ed: ‘Main Street Needs Senate’s Financial Reform Legislation’
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 30, 2010. In an op-ed piece for McClatchy-Tribune News Service, U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin writes about the importance of Wall Street reform for families and businesses on Main Streets across America. The full text of the piece follows. To read the Treasury Department’s fact sheet “Financial[Read More…]
SEIU: We Need Balanced, Practical Immigration Solutions More Than Ever
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 29 – Today, Senators Charles Schumer, Robert Menendez and Harry Reid will introduce an immigration reform outline. In anticipation, SEIU Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina issued the following statement: “As the eyes of the world focus on Arizona, it is clear that we need balanced, practical immigration solutions more[Read More…]
Proposed Immigration Bill Raises Civil Liberties Concerns, Says ACLU
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 29 – The American Civil Liberties Union has serious reservations about a draft version of a comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) bill summary posted on Politico late Wednesday. Although the ACLU has not seen the full legislative language of the bill, the published draft raises serious civil liberties concerns, including[Read More…]
Drivers, Governments Waste Billions Due to Misguided Highway Policies
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 28 – Special interestlobbying, policies that favor new construction over repairs, and the appeal of ribbon-cuttings push America to build new highways and bridges faster than it keeps up older ones. The result? A crumbling infrastructure, with 45 percent of the nation’s roads – 80 percent in metropolitan areas[Read More…]
House Republicans Ought to be Embarrassed about their Record on Fannie and Freddie
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 28, 2010. Rep. Spencer Bachus should know better. In a long op-ed in Politico, the Alabama Republican talks at length about the supposed Democratic failure to reform the GSEs, but apparently President Bush’s “ownership society” doesn’t apply to Republicans taking responsibility for their own failures. The Republican record[Read More…]
House Hears Testimony On Government’s Targeted Killing Program
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—April 28, 2010. The National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing today to discuss the legal issues involved in the government’s targeted killing program, including the use of unmanned weapon systems, or drones, for the targeted killing of individuals.[Read More…]
Steelworkers Outraged Over Arizona’s Shameful Immigration Bill
Pittsburgh–(ENEWSPF)–April 27, 2010. The United Steelworkers (USW) union is proud of its long history of fighting to preserve American jobs while at the same time supporting common sense immigration reform that protects the rights of individuals in accordance with the U.S. Constitution. “The recent law passed by the Arizona Legislature[Read More…]
Discredited Military Commissions Resume Despite Persistent Flaws
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–April 27, 2010. Four months after the Obama administration missed its deadline to close Guantánamo, the deeply flawed military commissions system has resumed there with closely watched pre-trial proceedings in the case of Omar Khadr beginning this week. The American Civil Liberties Union will be present for the pre-trial[Read More…]
Does it Make Sense to Lock Up a Man in a Wheelchair?
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 26, 2010. I got a call last week about this absolutely tragic story in Florida, which is as good an example of the senseless nature of our nation’s marijuana laws as any I have ever seen. John Haring, 45, is a quadriplegic who suffers daily from chronic pain,[Read More…]
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