NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, April 26 (TNSres) -- The Center for American Women and Politics issued the following news release: * * * New Data from the Center for American Women and Politics * * * Women continue to hold less than a third of all municipal offices nationwide, according to new data from the Center for American Women and Politics, a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. While women's share of seats in mayoral and municipal council offices increased from  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, April 29 -- The First Liberty Institute issued the following news release: First Liberty Institute, Jones Day, and the Pepperdine Religious Liberty Clinic filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of The Mendham Methodist Church and The Zion Lutheran Church Long Valley in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey against Morris County. The suit challenges the County's change of policy to exclude churches from the Morris County Historic Preservation Trust Fund.  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 (TNStalk) -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following statement on April 24, 2023: * * * Today the Department of Transportation denied a special permit sought by New Fortress Energy to transport liquefied methane to a proposed gas export facility on the Delaware River in Gibbstown, New Jersey. The denial of the permit renewal comes after years of community organizing to stop the dangerous fracked gas export scheme, which would see LNG bomb trains passing through a nu  more

MORRISTOWN, New Jersey, April 26 (TNSres) -- JDRF, a non-profit dedicated to funding type 1 diabetes research, issued the following news release: The BD Diabetes Center at Atlantic Health System's Goryeb Children's Hospital and JDRF, the leading global type 1 diabetes research and advocacy organization, have partnered to distribute an educational video series for youth with type 1 diabetes. The three-part series, comprised of five-minute videos, focuses on helping teens and young adults with ne  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, April 26 (TNSres) -- The Illinois Policy Institute issued the following news release: Illinois' pension crisis has the state holding $140 billion in unfunded liabilities, a burden that creates a cycle of spending cuts, tax hike threats or deficit spending. New polling shows Illinoisans prefer to address the pension crisis by amending the state constitution as opposed to hiking taxes and cutting services. Illinois' pension crisis is the driving force behind its high property   more

NEW YORK, April 29 (TNStalk) -- Physicians for Reproductive Health issued the following statement on April 28, 2023: Today, PRH Board Chair and ob/gyn in New Jersey Dr. Kristyn Brandi testified alongside abortion storytellers and abortion advocates in a Democratic Women's Caucus shadow hearing entitled "Fighting for Bodily Autonomy: Shadow Hearing on Abortion Rights in Post Roe America." * * * The following are portions of Dr. Brandi's remarks to the Caucus members in attendance: "I'm here t  more

NEW YORK, April 21 (TNStalk) -- Physicians for Reproductive Health issued the following statement: * * * The Supreme Court of the United States granted requests by the government and Danco to stay Judge Kacsmaryk's order in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA while the litigation proceeds. * * * Board Chair of Physicians for Reproductive Health and ob/gyn in New Jersey Dr. Kristyn Brandi responds. "Today people who support abortions, need abortions, and provide abortions celebrate the   more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, April 25 (TNSjou) -- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey issued the following news: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a type of cancer in which the bone marrow makes a large number of abnormal blood cells. It is the most common type of acute leukemia in adults. Background: For decades, the treatment options for this disease have included chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant, however, newer therapeutics termed 'BH3-mimetic drugs', are recently introduced or be  more

WASHINGTON, April 26 (TNSgov) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on April 25, 2023: The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) today denied an extension for a critical permit that would authorize transportation of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) between Wyalusing, Pennsylvania and Gibbstown, New Jersey. The Special Permit was originally granted in December 2019 and expired in 2021. Sierra Club, Clean Air Council, and Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future filed  more

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, April 25 -- The Society of Professional Journalists issued the following news on April 24, 2023: The Society of Professional Journalists recognizes the best collegiate journalism in Region 1 with 2022 Mark of Excellence Awards winners. SPJ's Region 1 comprises Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Central and Eastern Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. First-place winners will compete at the national level among other MOE winners fro  more