NEW YORK, April 10 [Category: Media] -- PEN America, an organization that says it stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression, posted the following news release: * * * Florida's Bill for All Textbooks to Rename "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" is an Assault on Freedom of Expression (NEW YORK)-In response to the Florida state government's plans to require new textbooks and instructional materials in schools to refer to the "Gulf of Mexico" as the t  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, April 10 -- Florida State University issued the following news: * * * FSU English professor awarded competitive National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship By Jack Clifford A Florida State University faculty member has been selected for a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in support of her next book project. Associate Professor of English and Honors Teaching Scholar Tarez Samra Graban will use the fellowship to write "Rh  more

NAPLES, Florida, April 11 -- The Foundation for Government Accountability issued the following news release: * * * The House Passes the SAVE Act to Safeguard American Elections, Bill Goes to the Senate FGA commends the House for putting American citizens first once again and bolstering election security with the SAVE Act to ban non-citizen voting The Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) applauds the House of Representatives for votingto pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 [Category: Political] -- Americans for Tax Reform posted the following commentary: * * * How the Trump Tax Cuts Are Helping Florida Below is a continuously updated list of good news arising from Tax Cuts and Jobs Act enacted by President Trump and Republicans in 2017 and which now must be made permanent across the board. The average annual TCJA tax cut for Florida households is $1, 354\. ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL IRS DATA 16% tax cut for Floridians making between $25k -   more

WASHINGTON, April 10 [Category: Political] -- The League of Women Voters issued the following news release: * * * League of Women Voters and SPLC Move to Defend Fair Representation in Census Lawsuit Lafayette, LA -- Today, the League of Women Voters (LWV), the League of Women Voters of Florida (LWVFL), and the League of Women Voters of New York State (LWVNYS), represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), filed a motion to intervene in Louisiana v. U.S. Department of Commerce. The la  more

MIAMI, Florida, April 11 -- The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine issued the following news: * * * Can Stem Cells Address Behavioral Symptoms in Alzheimer's Patients? By Tara Roberts As Alzheimer's disease progresses, many patients develop severe behavioral problems such as agitation, aggression, abnormal sleep and sexual behaviors, hallucinations and delusions. The symptoms can be overwhelmingly stressful for patients and their caregivers. But the existing options for behaviora  more

MIAMI, Florida, April 11 -- The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine issued the following news: * * * Cancer Research in the Wake of a Key FDA Decision on Minimal Residual Disease By Charlotte Schubert It's been almost one year since the speed of multiple myeloma research got a big boost at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Last April, a key agency committee ruled in favor of using a measurement called minimal residual disease (MRD) as an endpoint to support the accelera  more

MIAMI, Florida, April 11 -- The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine issued the following news: * * * Figuring Out What Genes Do By Josh Baxt The reference genome from the Human Genome Project was a stunning achievement, but it left a lot of questions unanswered. While the project revealed how many genes there are (around 22,000), where they live on chromosomes, disease susceptibilities and other important details, it didn't tell us what the genes do. That enormous job is now being   more