CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Illinois Technology Foundation, a Chicago-based non-profit organization dedicated to fueling the technology talent and human capital pipeline through facilitated collaboration between academia and industry, has begun accepting nominations for 50 for the Future, an event honoring Illinois’ most promising technology students. The event, now in its third year,[Read More…]

(PRWEB) February 4, 2009 — President Obama’s economic bailout plan, labeled the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), offers extensive relief to school districts and higher education programs throughout the U.S. According to Sheila Danzig, founder of Degree.com, an information hub on accredited online degree programs (www.degree.com), it’s critical that the[Read More…]

Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The FBI, in cooperation with the Illinois State Police and several local police departments, is conducting a complete review of all evidence developed in connection with the 1982 Tylenol murders. This review was prompted, in part, by the recent 25th anniversary of this crime and the resulting publicity.[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– During the February 4 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski did not challenge Sen. John Thune’s (R-SD) claim that the creation of “government jobs” doesn’t stimulate the economy. Thune claimed that the legislation before Congress “creates a lot of government jobs,” adding,[Read More…]

Asserting that Obama’s “stimulus plan has lost its luster,” CNN contributor Carol Costello repeated without challenge a claim she called “effective Republican spin” — that spending in the pending Democratic economic recovery bills is not stimulus. She did not point out in rebutting the “effective Republican spin” what numerous economists[Read More…]

Commentary by Eric Boehlert I’m not sure how many thousands of questions have been asked over the years at White House press briefings, but I would suggest NBC’s Chuck Todd may have recently asked one of the most inane. The history-making moment unfolded in the White House press room on[Read More…]

NEW YORK – Join the Impact has partnered with other national LGBT groups to develop a web based public education campaign, www.tell-three.org, to encourage LGBT people and their supporters to have three conversations with friends and family to help build support for LGBT equality. “The passage of Prop 8 in[Read More…]

(PHOTO SUPPLIED) Commentary “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” -Albert Camus Aquan Lewis died in the depth of winter.  We need to know why. But first, we need to mourn his loss.  All of us. Police and school officials are[Read More…]

Life and Work of Lorraine Hansberry Comes to ITC Stage Adapted by Robert Nemiroff Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The brilliant career and tragically short life of Chicago-born writer Lorraine Hansberry comes to the Illinois Theatre Center stage in “TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK – A Portrait of Lorraine Hansberry in[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– “This kind of innovative school…is an example of how all our schools should be,” President Obama said yesterday, as he and Mrs. Obama visited a public charter school in Washington, D.C. The President and First Lady read “The Moon Over Star,” a book by Dianna Hutts Aston, illustrated[Read More…]