MCLEAN, Virginia, May 15 -- The American Association of Tissue Banks issued the following news: The AATB biennial election for 2024-2026 Council Officers opens June 3. All AATB council members who are Individual Members of the Association in good standing will be eligible to vote for the council leadership of the council of which they are a member. Get to know the candidates running for leadership positions on the eight AATB councils below. * * * ACCREDITED TISSUE BANKS COUNCIL Chairperson   more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 16 (TNSres) -- The Animals and Society Institute issued the following news: ASI is pleased to announce our sponsorship of the new Animal History journal, scheduled for publication in 2025. Animal History is a new, peer-reviewed journal for histories of animals and human-animal relationships. The journal seeks to cultivate and publish cutting-edge historical research and to redress a long-standing gap in historical scholarship, which has traditionally focused on creatin  more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 17 (TNSres) -- The Animals and Society Institute issued the following agency statement on May 16, 2024: * * * ASI is pleased to share our 2023 Impact Report detailing all the ways we've been working across seasons and continents toward our mission to advance and share knowledge to improve nonhuman animal lives. With your support, ASI's work serves our shared vision to live in a compassionate and equitable world where nonhuman animals and our relationships with them flo  more

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued the following news release on May 16, 2024: The Michigan chapter of Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI), a chapter of the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today voiced its deep concern over the reported harassment of an Israeli human rights advocate for Palestinians at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Monday. Ilan Pappe who is an Israeli political scientist and author stated on X, f  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, May 17 (TNSres) -- The Center for American Women and Politics issued the following news release: * * * New Data and Resources from CAWP's Women, Money, & Politics 2024 * * * The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University, provides updates to our campaign finance series, Women, Money, & Politics Watch 2024. First, CAWP experts have analyzed fundraising recipient data about congressional candidate  more

LANSING, Michigan, May 14 -- Clean Water Action issued the following news release: Advocates raised the alarm this morning about legislation currently advancing through the Michigan State Legislature which would exempt new data centers from paying sales and use taxes in Michigan. SB 237 passed the Michigan Senate on Thursday and SB 238, the other bill in the package, is expected to be up for a floor vote early this week. The data center tax exemptions raise an important question about exactly w  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, May 17 [Category: Construction] -- Associated General Contractors of America issued the following news release: Texas and Alaska Top Lists of Numerical and Percentage Year-over-Year Increases, While Ohio and Iowa Trail; Michigan Has Largest Number and Percent of Monthly Gains, While New York and Maryland Have Worst Losses Construction employment increased in 39 states in April from a year earlier, while 29 states added construction jobs between March and April, according t  more

WASHINGTON, May 17 -- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting issued the following news release: Delta College Public Media in Michigan, Community Radio Project, Inc. in Colorado, and KSTK Stikine River Radio and Silakkuagvik Communications' KBRW in rural Alaska have been awarded funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to upgrade their equipment to provide enhanced emergency alerting. CPB awards the grants through the Next Generation Warning System (NGWS) grant program, funde  more

NAPLES, Florida, May 14 -- The Foundation for Government Accountability issued the following news release: Last week, the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) filed an amicus brief (https://thefga.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/FGA-Hile-v.-Michigan-Amicus-Brief-FINAL-DRAFT-v3.pdf) in the Supreme Court of the United States case, Hile v. Michigan. In the amicus, FGA argues that the Court should grant certiorari on this case and allow the Hiles to argue their case. The brief cites multi  more

IONIA, Michigan, May 16 -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued the following news release: With Michigan under an extraordinary emergency order due to an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza--and after Herbruck's Poultry Ranch Inc. and other farms in Ionia County killed nearly 6.5 million chickens because of the virus--PETA is placing a sky-high message near grocery stores in the area to honor the birds' memory and remind everyone that the resulting higher price of eggs   more

MIDLAND, Michigan, May 18 -- The Mackinac Center for Public Policy issued the following news release: The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed a challenge to the Biden administration's unlawful student loan forgiveness for participants in Income Driven Repayment plans and the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. The New Civil Liberties Alliance is representing the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and the Cato Institute. The Court did not rule on the merits of the case, but on wheth  more

LANSING, Michigan, May 18 -- The Michigan League for Public Policy issued the following news release on May 17, 2024: The Michigan League for Public Policy issued the following statement on today's Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference (CREC). It can be attributed to League Fiscal Policy and Government Relations Director Rachel Richards. The League urges lawmakers to prioritize issues in The People's Budget, which features priorities for the Fiscal Year 2024-25 State Budget. "The last severa  more

LANSING, Michigan, May 14 -- Progress Michigan, an organization that says it holds public officials and government accountable and assist in the promotion of progressive ideas, issued the following news release: Recently multiple news sources reported that Canadian fossil fuel giant Enbridge selected two contractors to construct the Line 5 oil tunnel. One of the contractors named is Barnard Construction, whose subsidiary received a federal contract under President Donald Trump for $1 billion to  more

SANTA MONICA, California, May 14 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following news release: Prices paid to hospitals during 2022 by employers and private insurers for both inpatient and outpatient services averaged 254 percent of what Medicare would have paid, with wide variation in prices among states, according to a new RAND report. Some states (Arkansas, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi) had relative prices under 200 percent of Medicare, while other states (California, Florida, Georgia,   more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, May 17 -- The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources issued the following news release: Renee Hiller, vice president for human resources and workplace experience at St. Cloud State University, has been selected to receive the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) 2024 Distinguished Service Award for outstanding leadership of CUPA-HR and higher education HR. CUPA-HR is pleased to make a $4,000 contribution  more

SOUTHFIELD, Michigan, May 15 -- The Society of Manufacturing Engineers issued the following news release: SME, the nonprofit association committed to advancing the widespread adoption of manufacturing technologies and developing North America's talent and capabilities, has awarded its 2024 Excellence in Manufacturing Training Award to Kubota Manufacturing of America Corporation, based in Gainesville, Georgia, a subsidiary of Kubota Corporation a major manufacturer of tractor products for the U.  more