ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland, Nov. 18 -- The U.S. Army Public Health Center, which focuses on identifying health threats and developing solutions, issued the following news release on Nov. 17, 2021: By Douglas Holl It's been nearly a year since the Army Public Health Center first reported about long COVID and there have been a number of studies on this issue as well as some recent media reporting about how this may be impacting service members, civilians and their families. "Lingering sy  more

REGINA, Saskatchewan, Nov. 19 -- The Canada Post Corporation issued the following news release on Nov. 18, 2021: Canada Post unveiled a stamp paying tribute to one of Canada's most successful singer-songwriters - Buffy Sainte-Marie, C.C. Believed to have been born on the Piapot First Nation in Saskatchewan in 1941, Sainte-Marie is internationally renowned for her unique vibrato vocals and emotionally charged songs, which have been covered by hundreds of artists, from Elvis Presley and Neil Dia  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Nov. 19 (TNSOps) -- The Conservation Law Foundation issued the following statement on Nov. 18, 2021: * * * Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has announced that the state will only move forward with the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) if another state joins the program, so it will be on hold for now. Today's announcement comes after yesterday's news that Connecticut will not be moving forward with the program. Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) released the   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- Rep. Ann Kuster, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release on Nov. 18, 2021: The Biden-Harris administration announced a plan to deploy funds from the American Rescue Plan Act to help offset rising home heating costs for Americans this winter. This move comes a week after Rep. Annie Kuster (NH-02) joined her colleagues in sending a letter to the administration urging the president to release inventory from the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve (NEHHOR) and Strat  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy issued the following testimony by Mark W. Menezes, ex-Energy deputy secretary and ex-chief counsel, as part of a hybrid hearing on Oct. 21, 2021, entitled "Offshore Wind, Onshore Benefits: Growing the Domestic Wind Energy Industry": * * * Thank you for the invitation and opportunity to testify before you today on a potentially bountiful source of emission-free electricity, offshore wind. While I have a considerable amo  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, Nov. 19 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following radio address transcript: This Thanksgiving, we are grateful and thankful for so many things. We should be thankful for our freedom. Freedom is something you can neither buy nor take for granted. It's something we can hold dear and share with others we love and even with those we may never meet. The freedom to be healthy, for instance. To work and earn a living. To have a meeting or a meal with others without fear of ill  more

CONCORD, New Hampshire, Nov. 19 (TNSPar) -- NHTI - Concord's Community College issued the following news: * * * NHTI Addresses Teacher Shortages Concord's Community College invites you to consider becoming a licensed teacher through an expedited pathway to licensure. In partnership with the N.H. Department of Education (DOE), NHTI is helping career changers become licensed to teach in critical shortage areas through our innovative teacher preparation programs. NHTI will host an online inform  more

WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania, Nov. 19 (TNSOps) -- The Pennsylvania College of Technology issued the following news: Construction management students at Pennsylvania College of Technology brought home first- and second-place honors from the 32nd annual Associated Schools of Construction Region 1 Student Competition, held Nov. 11-13 in Albany, New York. The college's Pre-Construction Team, tasked with construction and renovation of a public school building in New England, placed first. Its Heavy H  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, joined Ranking Member Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and his other Republican committee colleagues in introducing the Section 401 Certification Act. The senators legislation would codify the Trump Administration's Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification Rule that ensured states did not deny permit  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Nov. 19 -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Mark Iafrati, MD, professor of Surgery, has joined the surgical faculty in the Department of Vascular Surgery, and is director of the new, multidisciplinary Vanderbilt Wound Center. "We're fortunate to have someone with Mark's qualifications and great expertise now leading our comprehensive Wound Center," said Seth Karp, MD, H. William Scott Jr. Professor and chair of the Section of Surgical Scienc  more