WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (TNSpp) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued the following news release on Jan. 20, 2023: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed a hate crime investigation into an act of white supremacist vandalism targeting a high school in Caldwell, Idaho, and called on school officials to address systemic anti-Black racism. Police are investigating after the phrase "white power"  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (TNSrpt) -- The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy issued the following news release: While most states have a graduated rate income tax, some state lawmakers have recently become enamored with the idea of moving away from graduated rate personal income taxes and toward flat rate taxes instead. But flat taxes create problems for ordinary families and let the wealthy off the hook. When faced with a flat income tax proposal policymakers and families should ask: Taxes w  more

DENVER, Colorado, Jan. 20 (TNSgov) -- The National Wildlife Federation issued the following news release on Jan. 19, 2023: Investments to restore healthy, functioning forests will benefit wildlife, safeguard water sources, and help protect western communities from unusually large wildfires. The National Wildlife Federation applauds the Biden Administration for expanding its efforts to restore forests across 11 landscapes in Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. "Restoring our   more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Jan. 20 (TNSgov) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on Jan. 19, 2023: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the Department's next steps in implementing the national Wildfire Crisis Strategy. They include expanded efforts to reduce wildfire risks across the Western United States, focusing on 11 sites in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington State. Funding for the projects supported under the strategy comes from President Biden  more

MCCALL, Idaho, Jan. 10 (TNSgov) -- Earthworks posted the following news release: A planned open-pit cyanide vat leach gold mine in Idaho's Salmon River Mountains would jeopardize public health and clean water, harm endangered species, violate Indigenous treaty rights, and permanently scar thousands of acres of public land in the headwaters of the South Fork Salmon River, a coalition of local and national conservation groups said. In over 300-pages of comments submitted Monday to the U.S. Fores  more