ROCKFORD —(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. A former Sycamore, Ill. resident pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to possessing child pornography. MICHAEL PODOLSKY, 27, now of Elkader, Iowa, admitted in the written plea agreement that on and prior to July 12, 2013, he owned and was in possession[Read More…]
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Rep. Jan Schakowsky Statement Observing International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, 2015
WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)—January 27, 2015. Rep. Jan Schakowsky released the following statement in recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day: “I join today in recognizing International Holocaust Remembrance Day – the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than a million innocent people were brutally murdered. It is a[Read More…]
Senator Durbin: Reject House Republican Efforts To Hold Homeland Security Funding Hostage Over Anti-Immigration Amendments
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. With just one month until the short-term funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security expires, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)spoke on the Senate Floor today to call on the Senate to reject House Republican efforts to create an artificial funding crisis in an attempt[Read More…]
Senator Durbin Meets With Air Force Chief Staff To Discuss Illinois Installations
Scott Air Force Base & Installations in Springfield and Peoria Top Meeting Agenda WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) met today with General Mark Welsh, Chief of Staff of the Air Force. During the meeting, General Welsh and Durbin – who also serves as Vice Chairman[Read More…]
Chicago Novelist Bayo Ojikutu to Read at Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery on February 2
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. Bayo Ojikutu, award-winning author of the novels 47th Street Black and Free Burning will kick off the Roosevelt University MFA Program’s Spring Reading Series with a reading and discussion at 5 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 2 in Roosevelt’s Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago. Ojikutu’s first[Read More…]
Roosevelt University’s Green Initiatives Earn Gold-level Recognition from State of Illinois
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. Roosevelt University has received gold-level recognition from the Illinois Governor’s Higher Education Campus Sustainability Compact and the Illinois Green Governments Coordinating Council for its many green initiatives. Strategic planning that has engaged Roosevelt’s administration, faculty and students and implementation of a variety of innovative programs and practices[Read More…]
NIH Launches Tool to Advance Down Syndrome Research
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015. The National Institutes of Health has launched a subsite of DS-Connect: The Down Syndrome Registry for researchers, clinicians, and other professionals with a scientific interest in Down syndrome to access de-identified data from the registry. This Web portal will help approved professionals to plan clinical studies,[Read More…]
Department of Defense Press Briefing by Rear Adm. Kirby, Jan. 27, 2015
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 27, 2015. REAR ADMIRAL JOHN KIRBY: Good afternoon, everybody. Just a reminder at the top that tomorrow at 4 p.m. Secretary Hagel will attend the armed forces farewell tribute being held in his honor just down the road at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall. The president, the vice president,[Read More…]
To Avoid Worst Consequences of Climate Change, Solutions Must Include Land Use Sector
Report Shows Land Use Sector Can Close Half of Emissions Gap WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–January 27, 2015 – A report from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) finds that reducing emissions from the land sector must be part of a global climate solution in order to close the “emissions gap,” the difference[Read More…]
Northeast Blizzard: Nature + Climate Change = Worse
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 26, 2015—The massive winter storm predicted to engulf the entire Northeast is the result of a “bombogenesis,” which occurs when a storm takes on an explosive nature. Below is a statement by Robert Mera, a Union of Concerned Scientists Kendall fellow and meteorologist. “It’s a natural phenomenon—a dramatic and[Read More…]
