Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)–December 22, 2009. A national organization of 17,000 physicians who favor a single-payer health care system called on the U.S. Senate today to defeat the health care legislation presently before it and to immediately consider the adoption of an expanded and improved Medicare-for-All program. While noting that the Senate[Read More…]
Month: December 2009
More Than Chicken Soup: USW Members Demonstrate for Real Health Care Reform
Pitssburgh, PA–(ENEWSPF)–December 22, 2009. Declaring “chicken soup is no substitute for quality, universal health care,” proponents on Monday passed out cans of chicken soup in front of Congressman Tim Holden’s office. The demonstrators, including some USW members, encouraged local residents to remind the Congressman that America needs more than chicken[Read More…]
Michael Jordan Sues Jewel, Dominick’s for Using His Name, No. 23
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– From the Sun-Times: Michael Jordan is suing Chicago’s two big grocery chains, Jewel and Dominick’s, claiming they used his good name and his good number — 23 — to sell steaks and other goods without his permission. According to the suit, filed Monday in Cook County Circuit Court:[Read More…]
Off-Duty Lockport Police Officer Ed Stapinski Charged In Fatal Stevenson Crash
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– From the Chicago Tribune: Cook County prosecutors this evening announced drunk driving charges against a Lockport police officer who was involved in an accident on the Stevenson Expressway Sunday that killed an immigrant from Vietnam driving home from his second job. Ed Stapinski, 34, was charged with one[Read More…]
Glenn Beck: Media Matters’ 2009 Misinformer of the Year
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Glenn Beck’s well of ridiculous was deep and poisonous before he launched his Fox News show, but the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States — and the permissive cheerleading of his Fox News honchos — uncorked the former Morning Zoo shock jock’s unique brand of[Read More…]
Governor Quinn Makes Four New Appointments To State Education Boards
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–December 21, 2009. Governor Pat Quinn today announced the appointments of James Baumann, Steven Gilford and Melinda LaBarre to the State Board of Education. In addition, Governor Quinn also named veteran State Board of Education member, Joyce Karon, to the P-20 (pre-school through graduate school) Council, a key advisory panel[Read More…]
Mexico City Assembly Backs Same-Sex Marriage Bill
Mexico City–(ENEWSPF)– From NPR: Mexico City lawmakers on Monday made the city the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, a change that will give homosexual couples more rights, including allowing them to adopt children. The bill passed the capital’s local assembly 39-20 to the cheers of supporters who[Read More…]
Obama Will Win: Why and How His Critics from the Left and Right Will be Proven Wrong
Commentary By Frank Schaeffer From The Brad Blog: Before he’d served even one year President Obama lost the support of the easily distracted Left and engendered the white hot rage of the hate-filled Right. But some of us, from all walks of life and ideological backgrounds — including this white, straight, 57-year-old,[Read More…]
AARP Applauds Senate for Moving Health Care Reform Forward
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–December 21, 2009. AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond released this statement following the Senate’s vote to move forward with health care reform. AARP designated this morning’s cloture vote on the manager’s amendment to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as an “AARP Key Vote.” The Association will record[Read More…]
SEIU President Vows to Fight to Improve Health Reform Bill, Calls Out GOP for ‘Rooting for America to Fail’
WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 21, 2009. Statement of Andy Stern, president of the 2.2 million member Service Employees International Union, the largest healthcare union in the country: “Tonight, sixty Senators voted to bring the American people one step closer to reforming our health insurance system. “While the process to get to sixty[Read More…]
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