Month: December 2009

ACLU Joins Crucial Lobby Effort to Protect Women’s Right to Comprehensive Health Care

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–December 2 – As the Senate debates health care reform, hundreds of Americans joined the American Civil Liberties Union and progressive and women’s rights groups today to ask Congress to protect women’s access to abortion care. Last month, the House of Representatives passed the Affordable Health Care for America Act[Read More…]

Governor Quinn Names Key Education Council

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2009. Governor Pat Quinn today made 25 appointments to the P-20 Council, a key advisory panel that will make recommendations to the Governor about strengthening our education system. The P-20 (pre-school through graduate school) Council will play an instrumental role in Illinois’ quest to win approximately $400 million[Read More…]

Reflecting on World AIDS Day

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2009.  On this World AIDS Day, as more than 33 million people worldwide live with HIV/AIDS, we want to recognize the impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis in our own country and to call for action that helps the communities and people most in need. AIDS is the[Read More…]

Senator Mikulski Puts Women First in Health Care Reform Debate

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2009.  U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), a senior member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, today put women first in the health care reform debate by introducing as the first amendment to The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act a measure to guarantee women[Read More…]

Marian Graduate Kevin Edwards, 19, Killed in Weekend Crash

Matteson, IL–(ENEWSPF)– From ABC7CHICAGO: A college baseball player was killed in a weekend crash in the suburbs. Nineteen-year-old Kevin Edwards, of Matteson, was driving a car late Saturday night when it crashed into a wall and overturned along Interstate 57 in Calumet Park. Edwards was a starting pitcher for the[Read More…]

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