Senator meets with leading advocate for reform of the for-profit college industry WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—July 28, 2015. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today met with Rohit Chopra, former Student Loan Ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and current Senior Fellow at Center for American Progress (CAP), to discuss improved[Read More…]
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Sandra Bland’s Toxicology Report Does Not Support Reefer Madness Claims
Yet, the “drug-crazed black person” myth continues to be revitalized decade after decade by racists masquerading as public servants. The level of THC in Sandra Bland’s system is negligible and is equal to placebo. NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—July 28, 2015. By: Dr. Carl Hart Was Sandra Bland under the influence of marijuana,[Read More…]
Sandra Bland’s Toxicology Report Does Not Support Reefer Madness Claims
Yet, the “drug-crazed black person” myth continues to be revitalized decade after decade by racists masquerading as public servants. The level of THC in Sandra Bland’s system is negligible and is equal to placebo. NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—July 28, 2015. By: Dr. Carl Hart Was Sandra Bland under the influence of marijuana,[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Blotter Reports for July 28, 2015
The Park Forest Police Station. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) 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[Read More…]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Takes Action Against Mortgage Payment Company And Servicer For Deceptive Ads
Consumers Deceived by “Equity Accelerator” Claims to Receive $33.4 Million Washington, D.C. –-(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took action today against Paymap Inc. and LoanCare, LLC for deceiving consumers with advertisements for a mortgage payment program that promised tens of thousands of dollars in interest savings[Read More…]
Mayor Emanuel Introduces Transit Oriented Development Reform Ordinance to Accelerate Development Near Public Transportation Stations
Reform Would Add More Than $400 Million to Local Economy Annually CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015. Mayor Emanuel announced yesterday that he will be introducing at the July 29 City Council meeting a transit oriented development (TOD) reform ordinance that would create incentives for more development near Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and[Read More…]
Food & Water Watch Calls on SEC to Reject GMO Salmon Stock Filings
AquaBounty Misleads Investors in Efforts to Join NASDAQ Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015. Food & Water Watch called on the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) today to reject the stock registration filings of AquaBounty Technologies (ABTX), the maker of genetically engineered salmon, based on misleading and erroneous claims the company is making[Read More…]
Groups Sue EPA over Faulty Approval of Nanotechnology Pesticide
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)–July 27, 2015. Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) today filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision to conditionally approve the antimicrobial nanosilver pesticide product “NSPW-L30SS” (previously “Nanosilva”) for use in an unknown number of[Read More…]
EPA Report to Congress: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is Accelerating Great Lakes Cleanup and Protection
Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015 – During its first five years, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative implemented more than 2500 projects to improve water quality, clean up contaminated shoreline, protect and restore native habitat and species and prevent and control invasive species in the Great Lakes. That work, which began in 2010,[Read More…]
Roosevelt University Professor Named to Juvenile Justice School Board
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015. Heather Dalmage, sociology professor and director of Roosevelt’s Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation, has been appointed to the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice School District 428 Board of Education. An expert on race, education and family and as director of the Mansfield Institute, Dalmage[Read More…]
