A gymnast performs on the balance beam at Gainers Gymnastics. (Photo: Tom Roome) Photo Gallery: Gainers Gymnastics Talent Showcase Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Gainers Gymnastics in DownTown Park Forest celebrated it’s “Green and Gold Festival” recently, showcasing the talents of young gymnasts. Participating gymnasts were as young as four years old,[Read More…]
Latest News
Sotomayor, Religious Freedom and the Great Unknown
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Charles C. Haynes First Amendment Center senior scholar President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court has triggered considerable hand-wringing on both sides of the culture-war divide over the relationship between religion and government under the First Amendment. Weeks[Read More…]
Use First Amendment Freedoms to Debate Second Amendment Issues
Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director Nobody wants to encourage or invite another campus killing spree like the one in 2007 at Virginia Tech University, in which 32 people died and 17 were wounded. But does that reasonable concern extend to prohibiting[Read More…]
Grow Your Own Program Cultivates Teachers for Area Classrooms
Chicago Heights, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Denise Kranzer and Michelle Robinson volunteered in their neighborhood elementary schools because they wanted to make a difference in the lives of young people.Both Kranzer and Robinson dreamt of becoming teachers, but neither had completed their bachelor’s degree. Kranzer, of Monee, started her path to a bachelor’s[Read More…]
BBB Urges Cautious Cooperation As U.S. Census Workers Start Consumer Contacts
Chicago, IL–(ENEWSPF)– With the U.S. Census process beginning, the BBB advises people to be cooperative, but cautious, to avoid becoming a victim of fraud or identity theft. The first phase of the 2010 U.S. Census is under way as workers have begun verifying the addresses of households across the country.[Read More…]
Media Promote Claim That Bush Administration’s Guantánamo Policies ‘Kept Us Safe’
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Echoing former Vice President Dick Cheney’s recent speeches and media appearances, conservative media figures and outlets have claimed that the Bush administration’s policies with respect to the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay “kept us safe” and have criticized President Obama’s executive order directing its closure. For instance, during the[Read More…]
Obama Abroad; Media Conservatives on Tour From Reality
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– President Obama’s trip to the Middle East and subsequent speech in Cairo were a predictable source of fodder for media conservatives. Then again, Obama’s trips abroad tend to bring out the worst from the right: a complete rejection of honest self-reflection, implicit xenophobia and anti-Islamic bigotry, relentless fearmongering, and a[Read More…]
Weekly Address: President Obama Outlines Goals for Health Care Reform, June 6, 2009
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 6, 2009. Over the past few days, I’ve been traveling through the Middle East and Europe working to renew our alliances, enhance our common security, and propose a new partnership between the United States and the Muslim world. But even as I’m abroad, I’m firmly focused on the[Read More…]
Human Rights Campaign Lauds Introduction of Reuniting Families Act
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today lauded the introduction of the Reuniting Families Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill, sponsored by Representative Michael Honda (D-CA), includes the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA), a provision that[Read More…]
H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) – CDC Update — U.S. Death Count Twenty-Seven, June 5, 2009
Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–June 5, 2009. Summary of Situation Current Statistics Based on data reported to the CDC by 5 p.m. (ET) on June 4, 2009, there have been 13, 217 confirmed and probable cases of H1N1 influenza reported in 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The U.S. confirmed[Read More…]