PHOENIX, Arizona, July 16 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona issued the following news release: In a must read op-ed in The Arizona Republic, Arizona Public Health Association Executive Director Will Humble admonishes Congress for endangering everyone's health by leaving millions of immigrants out of access to COVID-19 testing and treatment and urges the Senate to fix this omission in the upcoming COVID-related stimulus package. As the expert notes, "The COVID relief bills passe  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, July 17 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona issued the following news release: The ACLU of Arizona released a report revealing concerning patterns of racial disparities within the prosecution practices of the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. The Racial Divide of Prosecutions in the Maricopa County Attorney's Office includes data analysis of more than 51,000 distinct cases filed between January 2013 and December 2017. Among the key findings: * Black and Hispan  more

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, July 15 -- The Alliance Defending Freedom issued the following news release: The city of New York agreed to pay $100,000 in attorneys' fees and nominal damages this week after the city council backtracked and repealed an ordinance that unconstitutionally censored private conversations between counseling professionals and their patients. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing an Orthodox Jewish psychotherapist, Dr. Dovid Schwartz, asked a federal district court in  more

TUCSON, Arizona, July 17 -- The Astrophysical Journal, a research journal from the American Astronomical Society that says it is devoted to recent developments, discoveries and theories in astronomy and astrophysics, published research articles, including the following topics, in its July 10, 2020 edition: * Black Hole Masses of Weak Emission Line Quasars Based on the Continuum Fit Method * Chemical Variation among Protostellar Cores: Dependence on Prestellar Core Conditions * Dependence of t  more

RENO, Nevada, July 15 -- The Desert Research Institute issued the following news release: Meghan Collins, M.S., Education Lead for the Native Waters on Arid Lands (NWAL) project and Assistant Research Scientist at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno has received a $100k grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) to develop teacher leadership and science knowledge with Dine (Navajo) and Hopi communities. With this funding, Coll  more

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, July 17 -- The Hoosier State Press Association issued the following news: On July 16, two U.S. Representatives filed a bill to help local journalism that has the support of both the NewsMedia Alliance and the National Newspaper Association. Called the Local Journalism Sustainability Act, the bill will be sponsored by Reps. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Arizona, and Dan Newhouse, R-Washington. In a letter to her fellow congressional members, Rep. Kirkpatrick said the loss of local   more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release: Arizona, Texas, and Florida - states with spikes in Covid-19 cases - are all facing extreme heat this year, which is likely to be one of the hottest on record. While heat may be a minor inconvenience for those with good building insulation and copious air conditioning, it kills an estimated 12,000 people a year in the United States. Most summers, people who cannot afford air conditioning and live in unbearably hot hom  more

WASHINGTON, July 16 -- The National Education Association issued the following news release: With the coronavirus pandemic causing budget shortfalls in states and localities across the country, and with concerns mounting among educators, parents and health experts around safely opening school buildings this fall, the National Education Association announced that it will run a new round of digital ads in six battleground states, calling on the Senate to pass the funding needed to reopen schools   more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- The National Education Association issued the following statement by President Lily Eskelsen Garcia, demanding that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos cancel her political events in Alabama, Ohio and Arizona and instead focus on helping parents, health experts and educators reopen schools safely: "No one wants to be back in the classroom with our students more than educators. We love our students, our public schools, and our communities, and that is why we need to do this ri  more

TEMPE, Arizona, July 15 -- The Salt River Project issued the following news release: Salt River Project (SRP) on Saturday and Sunday delivered a record amount of energy to its Phoenix-area retail customers. Between 5 and 6 p.m. on Saturday, SRP delivered an estimated retail peak demand of 7,395 megawatts (MW). That peak topped SRP's previous system peak of 7,305 MW, which occurred on July 25, 2018. Then on Sunday, shattered both figures by delivering an estimated retail peak-demand record of 7,  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, July 15 -- The Translational Genomics Research Institute issued the following news release: Ashion Analytics LLC announced that Palmetto GBA, a Medicare administrative contractor for the Molecular Diagnostic Services Program (MolDX), has awarded coverage to its proprietary cancer profiling test, GEM ExTra(R), one of the nation's most comprehensive genomic cancer analysis tests. GEM ExTra, Ashion's flagship clinical assay, detects tumor-specific mutations, allowing physicians   more

WASHINGTON, July 16 -- The Trust for America's Health issued the following news release on July 15: As COVID-19 infection rates continue to increase in states across the country, many of those jurisdictions are facing the complex dilemma of high infections rates complicating school re-openings and thereby limiting students' access to school-based meal programs. Among the states with spiking infection rates and a high percentage of students participating in school-based meal programs are Arizona  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union issued the following news release on July 15: United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), America's largest food and retail union representing 1.3 million workers - including Kroger grocery workers across the country, called the new policy by Kroger to require that customers wear masks in stores long overdue. With COVID-19 cases skyrocketing in states like Arizona, Florida, and Texas, the union   more