Home of UNCLE BEN’S® and Organic SEEDS OF CHANGE® Joins Goose Island Mars Associates CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017 By: City of Chicago Communications Mayor Rahm Emanuel today joined Mars Food to open the company’s new North America headquarters in Chicago, making it the fourth Mars office on Goose Island. Building on[Read More…]
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Study: Medical Cannabis Enrollees Reduce Their Prescription Drug Use
Chicago, IL—(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017 By: NORML Patients enrolled in a statewide medical cannabis program are likely to reduce their use of conventional prescription drugs over time, according to data published online ahead of print in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Care. Investigators from DePaul University and Rush University, College[Read More…]
Senators Durbin, Franken Introduce Bill To Expand Public Service Loan Forgiveness To Adjunct Professors
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017 By: Office of Senator Dick Durbin At a time when adjunct faculty members now make up a majority of higher education instructors nationwide, U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Al Franken (D-MN) today introduced legislation that would allow part-time faculty at colleges and universities across the[Read More…]
Court Orders Zinke, Interior to Immediately Reinstate BLM Methane Waste Rule
Industry requests instigated illegal activity by federal government Helena, MT –(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017 By: Western Environmental Law Center Late yesterday, a U.S. District Court judge ruled the Trump administration’s indefinite suspension of key aspects of President Obama’s BLM methane waste rule this summer was “arbitrary and capricious.” The court ordered[Read More…]
Carbon Feedback From Forest Soils Will Accelerate Global Warming, Study Finds
Twenty-six-year research project finds cyclical response between soils, climate system CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017 By: Diana Kenney After 26 years, the world’s longest-running experiment to discover how warming temperatures affect forest soils has revealed a surprising, cyclical response: Soil warming stimulates periods of abundant carbon release from the soil to the[Read More…]
New Logan Center Conference on Oct. 13-19 to Explore Pan-Africanism
Artists and Scholars Convene Oct. 13-19 for Public Discussion CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017 Authored by: University of Chicago Communications From October 13-19, the Logan Center at the University of Chicago, 915 East 60th Street in Chicago, host Returns, the first gathering of an extensive multiyear research project on Pan-Africanism. The long and[Read More…]
FDA Approves First Test for Screening Zika Virus in Blood Donations
Silver Spring, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017 Authored By: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the cobas Zika test, a qualitative nucleic acid test for the detection of Zika virus RNA in individual plasma specimens obtained from volunteer donors of whole blood and blood[Read More…]
Starting Over: A Love Story for LGBT History Month at Governors State University
University Park, IL, October 5, 2017 By: GSU Office of Communications On October 21 at 8 p.m., MPAACT Theatre of Chicago presents Starting Over, a story of love, tolerance, and identity. Shown as part of LGBT History Month, this production follows a young biracial couple from an intolerant small town[Read More…]
USNS Comfort Responds to Hospital-Generator Failure in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (NNS) –(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017 By: Lt. j.g. Samuel R. Boyle, USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) The Mercy-class Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, received five critical patients around 8 p.m. Oct. 4, from Ryder Memorial Hospital in Humacao, Puerto[Read More…]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Finalizes Rule to Stop Payday Debt Traps
Lenders Must Determine If Consumers Have the Ability to Repay Loans That Require All or Most of the Debt to be Paid Back at Once WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)—October 5, 2017 Authored by: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today finalized a rule that is aimed[Read More…]
