Plan to address Legionnaires’ disease includes new plumbing, faster test results, new water sources Quincy, IL—(ENEWSPF)—January 11, 2018 By: Rosemary Piser Yesterday, Governor Bruce Rauner laid out plans for minimizing Legionella bacteria risks at the Illinois Veterans Home at Quincy. The Governor spent a week in residence to assess for[Read More…]
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Following Legionnaires Outbreak, Veteran Lawmakers Demand Rauner Provide Better Care for Illinois Veterans
Aurora, IL—(ENEWSPF)—December 14, 2017 By: Tom Bunting State Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia, D-Aurora, state Rep. Stephanie Kifowit, D-Oswego, state Rep. Jerry Costello, D-Smithton, and state Rep. Al Riley, D-Olympia Fields, are demanding a full investigation and legislative hearings into why Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration has not taken aggressive action to[Read More…]
Senator Duckworth: America’s Veterans Deserve Better Than Trump Budget
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–May 26, 2017. Today, combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) joined U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and 16 of their colleagues in outlining how President Trump’s budget and health care plan would jeopardize health care for more than 60,000 Veterans in Illinois and nearly 2 million[Read More…]
In Case You Missed It: AlterNet – Jeff Sessions Adds to Trump Administration’s ‘Alternative Facts’ on Marijuana and Legalization
If only Sessions could comprehend that any violence is due to prohibition and the absence of legal regulation, not the plant itself. Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—February 28, 2017 By Tony Newman / AlterNet Attorney General Jeff Sessions became the second member of the Trump administration in less than a week to provide[Read More…]
Veterans Resources Fair Scheduled on Prairie State College Campus on Thursday, March 9
CHICAGO HEIGHTS–(ENEWSPF)–February 27, 2017. Prairie State College (PSC) is hosting a Veterans Resources Fair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday, March 9, in the Prairie Center on the college’s main campus at 202 S. Halsted St. in Chicago Heights. Admission to the event is free. Attendees will be able[Read More…]
Veterans Write Trump, Demand Reversal On Executive Order
WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)—January 30, 2017. Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars are sending a letter today Donald Trump, today, urging him to repeal his executive order on refugees and visitors from the Middle East. A dozen veterans, all of whom used interpreters during their deployments, point to the damage[Read More…]
Major General (Ret.) Paul Eaton on Reports of Trump Administration’s Return to Torture
WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2017. In response to news that the Trump administration is looking to restore secret interrogation “black sites” and torture of detainees, retired Major General Paul D. Eaton, senior adviser to VoteVets, put out the following statement: “In recent weeks, it seemed that, perhaps, General Mattis, a[Read More…]
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Letter to the Editor of USA Today, December 9, 2016
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2016 For more than a month we have been working with a USA Today reporter on a story looking closely at our internal quality improvement tool called Strategic Analytics for Improvement and Learning (SAIL) and the rankings it uses to help our facilities improve. The story posted online[Read More…]
VA Awards Grant for Veterans Employment Pay for Success Program
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–December 9, 2016. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Center for Innovation, together with the Corporation for National and Community Service’s Social Innovation Fund, awarded the Veterans Employment Pay for Success (VEPFS) Program grant to the social investment firm, Social Finance, Inc. As awarded, the $3 million employment, labor[Read More…]
National Nurses United Hails Federal Move to Halt Dakota Pipeline, Praise Unity of First Nations, Veterans, Other Activists
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–December 5, 2016. National Nurses United on Sunday congratulated leaders of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and thousands of supporters, including 2,000 veterans assembled over the weekend, for the news that the federal government will deny authorization for the Dakota Access Pipeline to go through tribal lands posing a[Read More…]
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