Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 18, 2016. President Obama and the First Lady will travel to Cuba on March 21st and 22nd and Argentina on March 23rd and 24th. In Cuba, the President will work to build on the progress we have made toward normalization of relations with Cuba – advancing commercial and people-to-people ties[Read More…]
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White House Press Briefing by Josh Earnest, Feb. 17, 2016
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 17, 2016 – 1:06 P.M. EST MR. EARNEST: Good afternoon, everybody. Nice to see you all. Welcome back from California, those of you who traveled with the President. Let me do one quick announcement before we get started — it’s an update to the President’s schedule today. Today,[Read More…]
Governor Rauner Continues Budget Stalemate that Fails Families, Communities, and the Economy
Springfield –(ENEWSPF)–February 17, 2016. The following is a statement from John Bouman, Chair of the Responsible Budget Coalition (RBC) Executive Committee, and President of the Shriver Center, on behalf of the RBC: In the budget address today, instead of choosing to invest in children, families communities, and our state’s[Read More…]
Governor Rauner’s Budget Address, Feb. 17, 2016
Springfield, IL–(ENEWSPF)–February 17, 2016. Remarks as prepared for delivery: I stand before you today with respect for our co-equal branches of government – acknowledgment of our shared responsibility for the future – and a deeply-rooted desire to work with each and every one of you to right our ship of[Read More…]
Free Em All: 50 Years Later, Black Panthers Are Still Fighting for Freedom
At its best the river of our struggle has moved consistently toward the ocean of humankind’s most courageous hopes for freedom and integrity, forever seeking what Black people in South Carolina said they sought in 1865: The right to develop our whole being. Vincent Harding NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–February 17, 2016 By:[Read More…]
Poplar Grove Woman Charged in Stolen Identity Fraud Scheme
ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–February 16, 2016. A Poplar Grove, Ill. resident was indicted in federal court in Rockford on charges of mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, and access device fraud, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon of the Northern[Read More…]
Audubon Scientists Uncover Winter Home of Maine Atlantic Puffins
Formerly Unknown Migration Revealed in Gulf of St. Lawrence and U.S. Continental Shelf Atlantic Puffin on deep ocean waters. Photo: Stephen W. Kress NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–February 16, 2016. New findings recently announced by the National Audubon Society at the Pacific Seabird Group convention in Oahu, Hawaii reveal the first-ever mapped winter[Read More…]
Legislators and Grassroots Leaders Release the People’s Agenda, A People-Focused Alternative to the Turnaround Agenda
On the eve of Rauner’s Budget Address, Groups Lays Out New Vision to Put People Back on the Agenda in Illinois State Government Springfield, IL –(ENEWSPF)–February 16, 2016. On Tuesday, February 16, grassroots leaders joined with legislators to release the People’s Agenda, a new report laying out a[Read More…]
Syria: UN ‘Gravely Concerned’ Over Repeated Attacks on Hospitals, School
Destroyed buildings line a street – which is flooded with algae-covered, debris-filled water – in the Old City area of Homs, the capital of Homs Governorate, Syria. Photo: UNICE/Nasar Ali SYRIA–(ENEWSPF)–16 February 2016 – The United Nations human rights office today expressed grave concern over airstrikes yesterday in Syria that[Read More…]
Fishing and Public Interest Groups File Challenge to Feds’ Unprecedented Decision to Establish Aquaculture in Offshore U.S. Waters
Industrial aquaculture would bring economic and environmental harms to Gulf of Mexico and beyond New Orleans, LA–(ENEWSPF)–February 16, 2016—Center for Food Safety has filed a new lawsuit challenging the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) new federal regulations permitting, for the first time, industrial aquaculture offshore in U.S. federal waters[Read More…]
