Year: 2016

As Solar Installations Hit Record High in 3rd Quarter, Senators Merkley and Markey Call for 100% Renewables by 2050

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 27, 2016 By Meteor Blades Source: Solar City As of last month, there were some 1.1 million residential rooftop solar power systems keeping the televisions, refrigerators, computers, stoves, and lights on throughout the United States. In California, the solar leader, about 600,000 homes have installed such systems. And here, as[Read More…]

Park Forest Police Blotter Reports December 25, 2016

Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police blotter 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 local media. An arrest does not mean[Read More…]

‘O Holy Night’—A Gift to Us From a Christian, a Jew and an Abolitionist (Video)

OREGON–(ENEWSPF)–December 24, 2016 By Denise Oliver Velez Detail from Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s “Adoration of the Magi” Source: Google Art Project Every Christmas Eve, as our family gathered together around the tree we would sing carols. My mom’s contribution was to sing “O Holy Night” in French, which she had learned at[Read More…]

FDA Approves First Drug for Spinal Muscular Atrophy

New therapy addresses unmet medical need for rare disease Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–December 24, 2016. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Spinraza (nusinersen), the first drug approved to treat children and adults with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare and often fatal genetic disease affecting muscle strength and movement.[Read More…]

Governors State University Professor is Chicagoan of the Year in Film

Filmmaker, Daniel Nearing- Source: govst.edu University Park, IL—(ENEWSPF)–December 24, 2016. Daniel Nearing, filmmaker and founder of the Independent Film and Digital Imaging MFA program at Governors State University, has been named Chicagoan of the Year in Film by the Chicago Tribune. Announced December 22  and calling his work “supple, hypnotic”[Read More…]

Nurses Call on Senate to Reject Tom Price as HHS Secretary Policies Would ‘Substantially Erode Our Nation’s Health and Security’

WASHINGTON -(ENEWSPF)–December 23, 2016.  National Nurses United later Thursday called on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, as well as the full Senate, to reject the nomination of Rep. Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services. In a letter to HELP from NNU co-presidents Deborah[Read More…]

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