IOWA–(ENEWSPF)–January 4, 2016. At a town hall meeting in Davenport, Iowa, Hillary Clinton today warned about a new Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act scheduled to occur later this week. Since 2011, House Republicans have voted more than 50 times to repeal or dismantle the Affordable Care Act.[Read More…]
Year: 2016
Secretary of State Services at Governors State University on January 20
University Park, Illinois –(ENEWSPF)—January 4, 2016. The Secretary of State’s Mobile Service Unit will be at Governors State University’s Hall of Governors on Wednesday, January 20, from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Services available at the mobile service unit include driver’s license and State ID renewal, replacement, and corrections; vehicle[Read More…]
Infertility Treatments Do Not Appear to Contribute to Developmental Delays in Children
NIH researchers find no risk by age 3 from in vitro fertilization, other widespread treatments Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–January 4, 2016. Children conceived via infertility treatments are no more likely to have a developmental delay than children conceived without such treatments, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of[Read More…]
Study Adds to Evidence of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in Intersex Fish
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 4, 2016. A study published by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) found large-scale evidence of intersex in smallmouth and largemouth bass in the Northeast United States, an indicator of endocrine disruption. The study, published in the journal Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety,[Read More…]
Armed Militia in Oregon Part of Long-running, Right-wing Fight Against Public Lands
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–January 4, 2016. An armed militia has taken over a federal building in southeastern Oregon as part of a long-running campaign of violence, intimidation and right-wing paranoia that has festered for decades in the West, most recently with the standoff with Cliven Bundy in Nevada in 2014. Among the demands[Read More…]
FDA Strengthens Requirements for Surgical Mesh for Transvaginal Repair of Pelvic Organ Prolapse to Address Safety Risks
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–January 4, 2016. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued two final orders to manufacturers and the public to strengthen the data requirements for surgical mesh to repair pelvic organ prolapse (POP) transvaginally, or through the vagina. The FDA issued one order to reclassify these medical devices[Read More…]
Amateur Nature Photography at Sierra Club Meeting on January 11
MATTESON—(ENEWSPF)—January 4, 2016. The Sauk-Calumet Group of the Illinois Sierra Club has its next meeting on Monday, January 11th at 7:15 pm. The meeting is at the Frankfort Public Library. This month’s program will be Members’ Slides Night. Members will show slides or prints of the nature they have seen[Read More…]
Hillary Clinton Applauds Expected Executive Action by President Obama on Gun Safety, Warns GOP Would ‘Delight’ in Reversing it
NEW HAMPSHIRE—(ENEWSPF)—January 4, 2016. Hillary Clinton, who is campaigning in New Hampshire, today applauded President Obama’s soon-to-be-announced executive action that would strengthen background checks and make it harder for dealers to sell guns to criminals. But Clinton warned how the progress made by this executive order would be reversed if[Read More…]
Fighting Violence with Violence Creates More Problems than it Solves
Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)—January 4, 2016 By: George Ochsenfeld Fighting violence with violence is not only morally immature, it creates more problems than it solves. Making ‘martyrs’ out of ISIS fighters, while killing thousands of non-ISIS civilians as ‘collateral damage’, merely increases recruitment to extremist groups by feeding the flames of[Read More…]
Park Forest Police Blotter Reports for January 3, 2016 (Includes Podcast)
Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)–Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police 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 that[Read More…]