WACO, Texas, Dec. 18 -- The American Football Coaches Association issued the following news on Dec. 17: Five of the best high school head coaches in the nation highlight today's announcement of the 2020 Regional Power of Influence Award winners. This award is given jointly by the American Football Coaches Association(R) and the American Football Coaches Foundation(R). These winners will be honored during a virtual AFCA Convention, which will be held on January 12-14, 2021. This is the second y  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Dec. 15 -- The 60 Plus Association issued the following commentary by President Saul Anuzis: SCOTUS RULES: The Supreme Court declined to take up the matter, ruling that the plaintiffs lacked standing to bring the case. The Supreme Court did NOT rule or comment on the merits of the case. I think Texas was right on the issues and was clearly the wrong plaintiff to bring this case forward. I'm not a lawyer, but when the bureaucrats and judges in WI, PA, GA, and MI unilateral  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The Planned Parenthood Federation of America issued the following news release on Dec. 17: Planned Parenthood is calling on Gov. Greg Abbott to maintain critical health care access for people with low incomes in Texas after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order that could allow the state to "defund" Planned Parenthood. This is the latest in a five-year legal battle stemming from Gov. Abbott's 2015 attempt to block Medicaid patients from getting care at Planned   more

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Dec. 15 -- The Agricultural and Applied Economics Association issued the following news release on Dec. 18: At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many retail stores experienced shortages of certain fruits and vegetables because of the disruptions to farm labor and workers in processing. With major crop losses in lettuce, apples, and grapes, new research estimates up to $48 million in losses during this time. In the new article "The Effects of COVID-19 on Fruit and Veget  more

LEE'S SUMMIT, Missouri, Dec. 16 -- The Aircraft Electronics Association issued the following news release: The Aircraft Electronics Association has moved the dates of its 64th annual AEA International Convention & Trade Show to June 22-25, 2021. The event will take place at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas. "The health and well-being of attendees and exhibitors is our top priority," said AEA President and CEO Mike Adamson. "In consultation with hotel and health officials in Dallas, we have   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The Alliance for Strong Families and Communities issued the following news: The Alliance for Strong Families and Communities' Change in Mind Institute has received more than $700,000 from the Powell Foundation to engage a cohort of organizations in its collaborative learning model. These funds match an award from the Episcopal Health Foundation for the new initiative, which will begin in Spring 2021. For the Texas Change in Mind Learning Collaborative, the Alliance will w  more

IRVING, Texas, Dec. 17 -- The American Association for Respiratory Care issued the following news: Burnout was a hot topic in health care before COVID-19 hit, but since the pandemic it has taken on even greater meaning. Respiratory therapists have been battling the virus for months now, and no one would blame them for feeling overwhelmed and worn out. But patients are still getting sick, and they deserve the best care possible. How can respiratory care departments ensure they keep productivity  more

IRVING, Texas, Dec. 17 -- The American Association for Respiratory Care issued the following news: When COVID-19 shut the country down last spring hospitals continued to care for people not only with the virus but everyone else needing acute care as well. But many outpatients, including those attending pulmonary rehabilitation programs, weren't so lucky. They suddenly found themselves without the care they needed to manage their conditions. What happened to those patients and the respiratory th  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 15 -- The American Association of Nurse Practitioners issued the following news on Dec. 14: The American Association of Nurse Practitioners(R) (AANP) applauds the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Emergency Use Authorization of the COVID-19 vaccine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for its efforts to ensure the fair and equitable distribution of vaccines. AANP urges the public to get vaccinat  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 19 -- The American Association of Nurse Practitioners issued the following news: President Sophia L. Thomas, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, PPCNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP, and Chief Executive Officer David Hebert, JD, of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners(R) (AANP) issued the following statement regarding WGN's recent news story maligning the nurse practitioner (NP) profession: "As our country endures the worst health care crisis in more than a century, it is inexplicable that WGN   more

DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 15 (TNSRes) -- The American Heart Association issued the following news release: Despite most of the medical research community refocusing their work on the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and other studies getting delayed as labs closed to avoid spreading the disease, several significant key developments in the fight against heart disease and stroke emerged in 2020. The American Heart Association, the largest non-governmental funder of heart and stroke related research in the Unit  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 17 -- Austin Chamber of Commerce issued the following news release on Dec. 16: The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce today announced the organization's 2020 Volunteers of the Year. These business leaders will be recognized during the 143rd Annual Meeting on Feb. 3. As volunteers, these individuals went above and beyond in supporting the Chamber's mission with their time and talents. They have enhanced the business community's efforts to take on the biggest challenges facin  more

TEMPLE, Texas, Dec. 17 -- Baylor Scott and White Health issued the following news release: Baylor Scott & White Research Institute announces a new research project with Newsight Imaging to evaluate the efficacy of a potential new COVID-19 screening solution. The research project will include the evaluation of Israeli startup Newsight Imaging's SpectraLIT(TM) - a portable spectral analysis device powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. The device is licensed to Newsight's joint  more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Dec. 19 -- The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives issued the following news release: As the year draws to a close, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the CHIME Foundation are honoring members and Foundation partners whose outstanding contributions earned them special recognition in 2020. Ten members of the CHIME and CHIME Foundation communities were selected by their peers to receive prestigious awards this year. The  more

DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 19 -- Circulation, a journal from the American Heart Association, published research articles on the following topics in its Dec. 15, 2020 edition: Original Research Articles: * Association Between Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors With Cardiovascular Events and Atherosclerotic Plaque * Effect of Prehospital Crushed Prasugrel Tablets in Patients With ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Planned for Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: The Randomized COMPARE CRUSH   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (TNSRep) -- The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued the following news release on Dec. 17: To defend the limited, but meaningful inclusion of race in the University of Texas at Austin's admissions process, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, along with pro bono counsel Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP and Bernabei & Kabat PLLC, filed a motion to intervene today in SFFA v. University of Texas at Austin et. al, on behalf of three organizations and eight  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a non-profit public policy organization, issued the following news release on Dec. 16: The State of Texas announced today it is filing an antitrust lawsuit against Google, alleging the company's online advertising platform harms competition and allows Google to fix prices for advertising. CEI senior fellow Ryan Young said: "A company has monopoly power if it can raise prices, restrict supply, and still keep its dominance. Despite Go  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 -- The Computer and Communications Industry Association issued the following news: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google aimed at Google's advertising technology. The Computer & Communications Industry Association was founded in 1972 by companies challenging anticompetitive practices of IBM. CCIA has a history of supporting evidence-based antitrust enforcement to prevent consumer harm. The following can be attributed to CCIA Presid  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Dec. 18 -- The Council on Social Work Education issued the following news release: CSWE President and CEO Darla Spence Coffey, PhD, MSW, spread awareness of a key finding CSWE's recent National Workforce Initiative report on podcasts and interviews in major markets across the country. CSWE, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), and George Washington University Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity released findings from social workers completin  more

IRVING, Texas, Dec. 17 (TNSAwa) -- The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame issued the following news release on Dec. 16: The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) announced today that Don McPherson, a College Football Hall of Fame inductee from Syracuse and a leading advocate for the prevention of gender-based violence, will be the 2020 recipient of the NFF Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award. "Don McPherson is truly a special person who car  more

DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 16 (TNSAwa) -- E&I Cooperative Services issued the following news release on Dec. 15: E&I Cooperative Services (E&I), the only member-owned, non-profit cooperative focused exclusively on higher education, today announced it has awarded a contract to Safe Health Systems, Inc. (SAFE) to make the SAFE HealthCheck app quickly available with preferred pricing to its member institutions across the United States. Safe Health Systems (SAFE), operator of the SAFE Digital Healthcare P  more

IRVING, Texas, Dec. 16 -- The Electronic Security Association issued the following news: The Electronic Security Association (ESA) and Security Industry Association (SIA) have launched the Foundation for Advancing Security Talent (FAST), a new 501(c)(3), non-profit organization designed to promote careers in the physical security technology and life safety industry. Created through a partnership of ESA and SIA - the industry's leading associations - FAST will connect passionate, innovative prof  more

IRVING, Texas, Dec. 16 -- The Electronic Security Association issued the following news: A few companies in the security industry have either used open-source software (OSS) as an integral part of their technology or have made their codebase open source in recent years. This might seem like a strange business decision, since open-source code can often be accessed and used by anyone, seemingly giving away the secret sauce. However, there are many advantages to going open source that could help t  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 18 -- Environment Texas issued the following news release: This morning, the Houston City Council voted to approve a new tax abatement program to promote nature-based infrastructure, features like rain gardens and constructed wetlands, which can help keep pollution out of our waterways while mitigating flooding and reducing urban heat. In Houston, as across Texas, bacteria, excess nutrients, oil and toxic chemicals increasingly pollute waterways. Nature-based infrastructure  more

FLOWER MOUND, Texas, Dec. 14 -- Epilepsia, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features clinical and research results on all aspects of epilepsy from the International League Against Epilepsy, published research articles, including the following topics, in its December 2020 edition: SPECIAL REPORT: * Establishing criteria for pediatric epilepsy surgery center levels of care: Report from the ILAE Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Task Force FULL-LENGTH ORIGINAL RESEARCH: * Focal nonmotor versus mot  more

MURCHISON, Texas, Dec. 15 -- The Humane Society of the United States issued the following news release: This week Eve the once hairless "bare bear" celebrates her one year anniversary living and thriving in her forever home at the Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch in Murchison, Texas. She moved to the 1,400-acre sanctuary in December 2019 after two years of rehabilitation living at the Fund For Animals Wildlife Center (now San Diego Humane Society's Ramona Wildlife Center) in Ramona, Californi  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 16 (TNSAwa) -- The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health issued the following news release on Dec. 15: The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health is pleased to announce that it was awarded the inaugural Advocacy for Archives award by the Texas Historical Records Advisory Board (THRAB). THRAB established the Advocacy for Archives Award to recognize significant contributions made by individuals or organizations toward ensuring the preservation and availability of Texas's historical rec  more

HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 16 (TNSGra) -- Houston Advanced Research Center issued the following news release: The Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant to HARC (the Houston Advanced Research Center) to further optimize marine debris and litter removal efforts in local waterways. The additional funding fills a need to support the creation of a statewide litter collection database. Since 2019, HARC has been working with the Garver Black Hilyard Family Foundation, Keep Tex  more

HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 17 -- The Houston Symphony issued the following news on Dec. 16: The Houston Symphony's BBVA Family Series kicks off the New Year with the North American premiere, and just the second performance ever of New York Times bestselling author Dan Brown's Wild Symphony, at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 23 via livestream. This performance of Wild Symphony features original orchestral music composed by Dan Brown to accompany his New York Times bestselling children's book of the same n  more

DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 14 -- Hypertension, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Heart Association that says it presents reports on clinical and laboratory investigations in the field of blood pressure regulation and the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying hypertensive diseases, published research articles, including the following topics, in its January 2021 edition: Reviews: * Human Errors in Automated Office Blood Pressure Measurement * New Concept of Onco-Hypertension and Future Pers  more

DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 19 -- The International News Media Association issued the following news release on Dec. 18: Citing the need to incentivise innovation in the news media industry, the International News Media Association (INMA) today launched an initiative to explore the methods, strategies, KPIs, and prototyping behind product development at media companies. The Product Initiative aims to deliver for INMA members and the news industry five objectives: * Measurements and KPIs: Product has   more

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 18 -- Intervention in School and Clinic, a journal that says it focuses on curricular, instructional, social, behavioral, assessment and vocational strategies and techniques that have a direct application to the classroom settings from the Hammill Institute on Disabilities, published research articles on the following topics in its January 2021 edition: Features: * Forming and Sustaining High-Quality Student-Teacher Relationships to Reduce Minor Behavioral Incidents * Act  more

HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 18 (TNSGra) -- Islamic Relief USA issued the following news release: Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA) has awarded a $10,000 grant to the Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston, in support of the IMGH's Meals on Wheels program. The present coronavirus pandemic has led to record levels of food insecurity throughout the country, and the Greater Houston area is no exception. Senior citizens are among the segments of the population that are most at risk of the economic aftereffect  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Dec. 14 -- Limnology and Oceanography Journal - Methods, a journal that says it deals with problems in the aquatic sciences from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, published research articles on the following topics in its December 2020 edition: New Methods: * An ultraviolet dyegraph for measuring the chemical disturbances of sinking particles and swimming plankton * Effects of formalin preservation on carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes of  more

WACO, Texas, Dec. 15 -- Limnology and Oceanography Journal, a peer-reviewed journal from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, published research articles, including the following topics, in its December 2020 edition: Articles: * Photosynthesis-driven methane production in oxic lake water as an important contributor to methane emission * Physical drivers facilitating a toxigenic cyanobacterial bloom in a major Great Lakes tributary * Elements of lake macrophyte met  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund issued the following news release: On June 15, 2012, the Obama administration announces the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative, which allows undocumented young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children to temporarily remain in the U.S. and obtain work visas for two years. Starting in 2017, Donald Trump's administration attempts to end DACA. First, as a capitulation to Texas and other st  more

HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 16 -- Memorial Hermann Health System issued the following news release on Dec. 15: Today Memorial Hermann Health System received its first shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and immediately began administering the vaccine to its frontline healthcare workers. The system's very first vaccine was given to Robert Luckey, RN, who works as a nurse in Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center's dedicated COVID Intensive Care Unit. He received the vaccine to a round of applause fr  more

DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 16 -- Methodist Health System issued the following news release on Dec. 14: Methodist Health System today announced it has received its first shipment of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. "We are excited to be among the first in the state of Texas and nation to receive and administer this vital vaccine," says James Scoggin, Jr., Methodist Health System Chief Executive Officer. With this initial shipment Methodist will begin immediately administering the first of two req  more

DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 16 -- The National Athletic Trainers' Association issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pleased to recognize National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) as a National Youth Sports Strategy (NYSS) Champion. The NYSS, released in September 2019, called for a national strategy to increase youth sports participation. The NYSS is the first Federal roadmap with actionable strategies to increase participation in youth sports  more

IRVING, Texas, Dec. 16 -- The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame issued the following news release on Dec. 15: The National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame announced today the names of the 12 Faculty Athletics Representatives who will be honored as part of the 2020 NFF Faculty Salutes Presented by Fidelity Investments, honoring the significant contributions of faculty athletics representatives across the nation. As part of the initiative, each school with an  more

IRVING, Texas, Dec. 18 (TNSAwa) -- The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame issued the following news release on Dec. 17: The National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame announced today Jack Swarbrick, the University of Notre Dame Vice President and James E. Rohr Director of Athletics, as the 2020 recipient of the NFF John L. Toner Award. "Jack Swarbrick has established himself as one of the top athletics administrators in the country today with a relentless comm  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (TNSPer) -- The National Guard Association of the U.S. issued the following news release on Dec. 15: A longtime Republican leader on defense issues is preparing to retire. Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, is a former chair of the House Armed Services Committee and currently serves as ranking Republican. He has been known for reaching across the aisle while serving on the HASC, ensuring the committee avoided party politics and presented a generally united front on defense issue  more

HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 17 (TNSRep) -- The Episcopal Health Foundation issued the following news release: Less than half of Texans say they're very likely to get a COVID-19 vaccine and certain groups are even more hesitant. But there are some Texans who now appear more likely to get vaccinated than just a few months ago. Those are some of the latest findings from Episcopal Health Foundation's statewide survey completed in December that examined the likelihood of Texans to get a COVID-19 vaccine.   more

WACO, Texas, Dec. 16 -- The American Football Coaches Association issued the following news: Allstate and the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) are proud to announce University of New Mexico offensive lineman Teton Saltes as the 2020 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team Captain. Saltes was among 22 college football players named to the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team earlier this season for giving back to his community. Over the past month, fans voted at ESPN.com for the 2020 Allstate AFCA G  more

WACO, Texas, Dec. 17 -- The American Football Coaches Association issued the following news: Allstate and the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) are proud to announce University of New Mexico offensive lineman Teton Saltes as the 2020 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team Captain. Saltes was among 22 college football players named to the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team earlier this season for giving back to his community. Over the past month, fans voted at ESPN.com for the 2020 Allstate AFCA G  more

LUBBOCK, Texas, Dec. 16 -- The National Sorghum Producers issued the following news release: National Sorghum Producers is proud to announce a new U.S. dryland sorghum yield record has been set at 245.86 bushels per acre by Ella Johnston of Fulton County, Pennsylvania, in the 35th National Sorghum Yield Contest. Facing weather challenges, economic uncertainty and a challenging year overall, sorghum farmers showed resilience, continued to farm and produce high yielding sorghum, matching the pa  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- The Human Animal Bond Research Initiative issued the following news release on Dec. 14: The Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI) announced today a new research project to determine the effects of an equine-assisted therapy (EAT) program on the lives of older adults diagnosed with Parkinson's disease (PD). The study, How does 8 weeks of equine-assisted therapy affect older adults diagnosed with Parkinson's disease?, led by researchers from the Texas Woman's Univers  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Public Citizen issued the following statement on Dec. 17: * * * A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general led by Colorado and Nebraska filed antitrust lawsuits today against Google for giving preference to its own content in search results. This follows another lawsuit brought by 10 state attorneys general, led by Texas, that targets Google's domination in the advertising business. Alex Harman, competition policy advocate for Public Citizen, released the followin  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 -- Public Knowledge issued the following news release: Ten state attorneys general, led by Texas, filed an antitrust suit against Google alleging that the company abused its power over key advertising technology tools. Public Knowledge has advocated for scrutiny of Google's self-preferencing and denying access to key advertising data and advertising inventory as a way to prevent competitors from going head to head with Google in the market. The suit follows three years of P  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund issued the following news release: MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) held a press briefing Monday to discuss the recent updates to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and an upcoming hearing in Texas in a multi-state challenge to DACA. In 2018, a coalition of states led by Texas filed a federal lawsuit challenging the legality of DACA. The case is known as Texas v. United States. M  more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. 17 -- The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services issued the following news release: In the past week, the Trump Administration has finalized five regulatory changes that would seriously narrow the scope of asylum, harm the judicial process, and violate existing law and the rights of asylum seekers. The changes would, among other things, do the following: * Require all asylum applications be filed within 15 days of an asylum seeker's first court   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 -- The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press issued the following news: A First Amendment challenge to a Texas law limiting drone photography may move forward, a federal district court in Texas recently ruled. The suit, brought by the National Press Photographers Association, the Texas Press Association and a Texas reporter, challenged a state law that declares it unlawful to use "an unmanned aircraft to capture an image of an individual or privately owned real proper  more

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina, Dec. 16 (TNSJou) -- RTI International issued the following news on Dec. 15: Researchers at RTI International (RTI), a nonprofit research institute, and the Texas State Board of Pharmacy, released a paper today in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) discussing the changes in outpatient buprenorphine dispensing--a medication used to treat opioid use disorder--during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research showed that while there was   more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. 15 -- Southwest Research Institute issued the following news release: Southwest Research Institute has received a $4 million subcontract from Sabreliner Aviation to maintain the integrity of a fleet of supersonic aircraft the U.S. Air Force uses to train pilots. SwRI, under Sabreliner's prime contract with the U.S. Air Force, will support many of the USAF ASIP activities such as usage monitoring, developing inspection methods for the fleet as well as component testing a  more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. 17 -- Southwest Research Institute issued the following news release: Southwest Research Institute is developing a machine vision tool to help the U.S. Department of Defense assess the biomechanical movements of military medical personnel during training exercises. The simulation-based training system will compare medical trainee performance to that of experts whose physical motions, or kinematics, have been pre-recorded and analyzed in 3D with artificial intelligence.  more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. 17 (TNSJou) -- Southwest Research Institute issued the following news release: Using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) modeled chemical processes in the subsurface ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The studies indicate the possibility that a varied metabolic menu could support a potentially diverse microbial community in the liquid water ocean beneath the moon's icy facade. Prior to its deorbit in September of 2017,   more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. 17 -- Southwest Research Institute issued the following news release: Southwest Research Institute has received a $4.5 million U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contract to create accurate computer models of how materials and structures behave under impact, blasts, and shocks. The work will involve sophisticated state-of-the-art material tests on protective structures commonly used in military bases, embassies, and other structures that may face attack in foreign territo  more

FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 16 -- The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association issued the following commentary on Dec. 15 by President Hughes Abell: The past year has seemingly brought endless challenges, both for the cattle industry and the entire nation. The coronavirus, social unrest and political divisiveness have dominated news headlines for most of the year. For cattle producers, coronavirus-related supply chain disruptions and market volatility have added to the hardships. With so   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- The Texas Association of Broadcasters issued the following news: TAB's Board of Directors met last week in part to set the association's course for 2021 which will open with an expansion of direct services to members and renewed advocacy before state policymakers. New training programs for managers, sales teams and first-time sellers launching next month will be bookended with the return of the Annual TAB Convention and Trade Show Aug. 3-4 in Austin. Legislative Agenda   more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. 18 (TNSGra) -- Texas Biomedical Research Institute issued the following news release: Texas Biomedical Research Institute Associate Professor Corinna Ross, PhD, is a principal investigator on a $3.38 million National Institutes of Health multi-investigator grant to study "microbiome-mediated therapies for aging and healthspan" in marmosets, which are small monkeys native to South America and are becoming increasingly more important in aging and infectious disease resear  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 17 (TNSRep) -- The Texas Association of Realtors issued the following news release: The number of Texas homes that sold for $1 million or higher from November 2019 to October 2020 increased 23.5% to 6,347 sales, according to the 2020 Texas Luxury Home Sales Report released today by Texas REALTORS(R). The annual report examining housing statistics for luxury homes in the Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio metropolitan areas also showed total sales of million-d  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 15 (TNSRep) -- Texas Public Policy Foundation issued the following news release on Dec. 14: Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation released a report summarizing the results of a multi-day simulation exercise that examined a renewed humanitarian and national security crisis on America's southern border. The effort assembled two dozen experts to game out what the first nine months of a Biden Administration might see on the U.S.-Mexico border. The team included former Membe  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 19 -- Texas Public Policy Foundation issued the following news release on Dec. 18: The White House announced the appointment of Tom Lindsay, Ph.D., to the President's Advisory 1776 Commission. Lindsay is a distinguished senior fellow of higher education and constitutional studies at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Established by executive order last month, the commission was formed to develop ways to teach future generations the truth about America's founding, the core  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 18 (TNSRep) -- Texas Public Policy Foundation issued the following news release on Dec. 17: The Texas Public Policy Foundation published the paper Just the Facts: Government Debt in Texas's Most Populous Cities, Counties, and School Districts. "Texas's largest local governments are awash in public debt," said TPPF's James Quintero. "In fiscal year 2019, local governments borrowed a total of $365.3 billion, or more than $12,500 owed for every man, woman, and child in the Lon  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 19 -- Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association issued the following news release on Dec. 18: The Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association (TIPRO) highlighted updated employment figures for the Texas upstream sector. Following an increase in upstream employment in September and October, new government data indicates that the sector experienced a decline of 2,300 jobs in November compared to the previous month. According to the Current Employ  more

WACO, Texas, Dec. 16 -- The American Football Coaches Association issued the following news on Dec. 15: Indiana's Tom Allen highlights today's announcement of the 2020 Werner Ladder AFCA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) Regional Coach of the Year winners. These winners will be honored during a virtual AFCA Convention on Tuesday, January 12, 2021. The AFCA recognizes five regional Coach of the Year winners in each of the Association's five divisions: Football Bowl Subdivision, Football Champions  more

COLUMBIA, Maryland, Dec. 18 (TNSRes) -- The Universities Space Research Association issued the following news release: Scientists at Universities Space Research Association and their colleagues at NASA, University of Texas and other organizations have determined that the slope of the bedrock underneath glaciers around the Greenland ice sheet can either spread ice thinning farther inland or stall it. Outlet glaciers are essentially rivers of ice flowing over the bedrock and draining into the oc  more