NEW HAMPSHIRE—(ENEWSPF)—January 4, 2016. Hillary Clinton, who is campaigning in New Hampshire, today applauded President Obama’s soon-to-be-announced executive action that would strengthen background checks and make it harder for dealers to sell guns to criminals. But Clinton warned how the progress made by this executive order would be reversed if[Read More…]
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Fighting Violence with Violence Creates More Problems than it Solves
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—January 4, 2016 By: George Ochsenfeld Fighting violence with violence is not only morally immature, it creates more problems than it solves. Making ‘martyrs’ out of ISIS fighters, while killing thousands of non-ISIS civilians as ‘collateral damage’, merely increases recruitment to extremist groups by feeding the flames of[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Blotter Reports for January 3, 2016 (Includes Podcast)
Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)–Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than is reported by other local media. An arrest does not mean that[Read More…]
In and Around Park Forest Week of January 3, 2016 (Includes Podcast)
Lollapalooza Poster by Dan Grzeca Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—January 3, 2016. Prairie State College’s Christopher Art Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of posters of music events from acclaimed Chicago area illustrators, designers and printers. ‘Gigs Graphics!’ will open on Monday, January 4 and run through January 28. Additional information about[Read More…]
Hillary Clinton Statement on New California and Oregon Voter Registration Expansion
NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—January 3, 2016. As of this weekend, new laws going into effect in Oregon and California mean that residents there will be automatically registered to vote when they get a driver’s license. In her campaign, Hillary Clinton has called for universal voter registration, where every citizen in every state[Read More…]
Chicago Prepares for Imminent Immigration Raids by Informing Community Members About Their Rights
We cannot let ICE’s violence go unchecked. To report a raid, please call the Family Support Network Hotline at 1-855-435-7693. CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 1, 2016. News have surfaced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to start 2016 with immigration raids targeting Central American families who have deportation orders. In response,[Read More…]
Hillary Clinton Raises $55 Million in Fourth Quarter
$37 Million for Primary Campaign, $18 Million for Democratic Party NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–January 1, 2016. Thanks to the support of hundreds of thousands of people across the country, Hillary for America set a new record for the best off-year fundraising of any non-incumbent in history. At the beginning of this campaign,[Read More…]
White House Weekly Address: Making America Safer for Our Children
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 1, 2016 Happy New Year, everybody. I am fired up for the year that stretches out before us. That’s because of what we’ve accomplished together over the past seven. Seven years ago, our businesses were losing 800,000 jobs a month. They’ve now created jobs for 69 straight months,[Read More…]
2015: The Year In Review – NORML’s Top 10 Events That Shaped Marijuana Policy
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 31, 2015 #1 Congress Reauthorizes Medical Marijuana Protections Members of Congress approved language in the fiscal year 2016 omnibus spending bill that continues to limit the federal government from taking punitive action against state-licensed individuals or operations that are acting are in full compliance with the medical marijuana[Read More…]
Sustainable Development Goals to Kick In with Start of New Year
Source: UN in collaboration with Project Everyone NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–31 December 2015 – As 2015 comes to an end, and with it the 15-year cycle of the anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the United Nations officially will usher in – on 1 January 2016 – an even more ambitious set of[Read More…]
