Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– With unemployment rates climbing to double digits in some states, job hunters are turning out in record numbers at job fairs hoping to make a good impression and get back into the workforce. Competition for landing a job can be fierce and the Better Business Bureau is offering[Read More…]
Month: May 2009
Media Uncritically Repeat Claim that New Haven Firefighters Case Shows Sotomayor is an Activist
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– In the wake of Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination as a Supreme Court justice, media have echoed conservatives’ claim that her position in the New Haven firefighters case, Ricci v. DeStefano, shows that she is an “activist” judge. For example, Keith Perine wrote in a May 26 Congressional Quarterly Today[Read More…]
Politico Ignores History of Conservatives’ Citing Importance of Empathy in a Judge
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– A May 26 Politico article reported, “President Barack Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee, Second District Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor, began taking hits from the right as her nomination was announced Tuesday morning.” Politico cited former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee asserting, “The notion that appellate court decisions are[Read More…]
Rich East High Students Win Literary Contest
Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Three Rich East students have placed in the top three in their category of the 2008-2009 Write to Achieve! contest sponsored by the Black McDonald’s Operators Association of Chicago. All three students are sophomores and will be juniors in the coming school year. Christian Dickens won the[Read More…]
George Will Baselessly Claims Sotomayor Embraces … Idea of Categorical Representation
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– In his May 27 Washington Post column, George Will baselessly claimed that Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor “embraces identity politics, including the idea of categorical representation: A person is what his or her race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual preference is, and members of a particular category can[Read More…]
U.S. and European Opinions on Working Past Retirement Age for Larger Pensions
ROCHESTER, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–As the economic crisis continues around the globe, adults in the five largest European countries and the U.S. have different ideas about what it will mean for their retirement and their pensions or retirement savings. Seven in ten Germans (71%) and majorities of French (54%) and Spanish (53%)[Read More…]
CNN, Fox News, MSNBC Misrepresent Sotomayor Remark on Role of Appeals Court Justices
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– In reports on President Obama’s choice of 2nd U.S. Circuit Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC all took comments Sotomayor made on the role of the circuit court during a February 25, 2005, Duke[Read More…]
Soulforce Statement on Today’s California Supreme Court Ruling
Austin, TX–(ENEWSPF)– Today Soulforce joins millions of Americans in expressing our deep disappointment over the California Supreme Court’s decision to deny marriage to same-sex couples. While we are pleased that the marriages of over 18,000 couples in 2008 will remain intact, we are outraged by the decision on Proposition 8.[Read More…]
California Supreme Court Takes Step Back from Equality
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, responded to the California Supreme Court’s split 6-1 decision today ruling that Proposition 8, the narrowly approved measure which eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry, is valid. As a result[Read More…]
Prairie Avenue Gallery Hosts ‘Pride’ Show
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Chicago’s Prairie Avenue Gallery will host a Pride Show in honor of gay pride month in Chicago. The opening reception will be Sunday, June 7, noon-4 p.m., with food, music and mingling with the artists. The gallery is housed in the Prairie Avenue Historic District, in the Keith[Read More…]