Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2017. According to the largest and latest study of its kind to date, the economic and educational gains made by beneficiaries of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) continue to grow. The national survey, published today by Tom K. Wong, professor at the University of California San[Read More…]
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AG Madigan Files Lawsuit Against City Of Chicago To Reform CPD
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Attorney General Lisa Madigan today joined Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson to announce a lawsuit to seek an enforceable consent decree to implement the numerous reforms outlined by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in its investigation of the Chicago Police Department (CPD). In[Read More…]
Guard Units From Other States Join Harvey Response in Texas
Arlington, VA–(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2017 By: Steve Marshall One day after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called up the entire 12,000-member Texas National Guard to assist civilian authorities with the epic flooding resulting from Hurricane Harvey, several other state Guard units are in the hard-hit areas to offer manpower, equipment and support.[Read More…]
Request Seeks Evidence That Trump’s Reversal of Coastal Flood Protections Is Driven by Climate Denial, Contempt for Obama
Decision Makes Coastal Communities More Vulnerable to Storms Like Harvey WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2017. The Center for Biological Diversity filed a Freedom of Information Act request today seeking public records connected to President Trump’s rollback of an Obama executive order and federal flood-protection rule. Just 10 days before Harvey struck Texas,[Read More…]
Finally, Automatic Voter Registration In Illinois: Clerk Orr
Chicago, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Automatic Voter Registration is now the law in Illinois, and Cook County Clerk David Orr has high praise for the move, as well as a rebuke for Governor Rauner’s previous moves to block AVR. The bill provides “that an application for a driver’s license, other than a temporary[Read More…]
Statement from IL House Speaker Madigan on School Funding
SPRINGFIELD, IL–(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2017. House Speaker Michael J. Madigan issued the following statement on Monday: “Today we saw compromise. Instead of pitting children and communities against each other, Democrats and Republicans came to an agreement on much of what’s in this bill. And even where we don’t fully agree, we’re[Read More…]
Park Forest News: Police Blotter Reports for August 28, 2017
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)— Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting in depth reporting of Park Forest news with this week’s 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…]
Human Rights Watch: Trump Threatening to Expel ‘Dreamers’
Repealing DACA Would Harm Thousands With Close US Ties Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2017. US President Donald Trump’s threatened repeal of a program protecting from deportation immigrants who arrived in the United States as children would harm hundreds of thousands of people with strong ties to the US, Human Rights[Read More…]
Common Flame Retardant Chemicals May Reduce Likelihood of Clinical Pregnancy, Live Birth Among Women Undergoing Fertility Treatments
Boston, MA –(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2017. Women with higher urinary concentrations of a common type of flame retardant had reduced likelihood of clinical pregnancy and live birth than those with lower concentrations, according to researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study, conducted in the Fertility Clinic at Massachusetts[Read More…]
New Locomotives Serving Amtrak Riders in Illinois
IDOT leads effort to provide customers with improved travel experience CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2017. The Illinois Department of Transportation announced that new locomotives are now serving Amtrak customers in Illinois, a major step toward replacing the fleet that operates on passenger rail lines throughout the Midwest. As part of its[Read More…]
