BOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec. 24 (TNSAwa) -- The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority issued the following news: In partnership with municipalities, Agency adds nine miles of bus lanes across Greater Boston region, including New England's first center-running facility, and activates transit signal priority at 37 intersections in 2021. The MBTA, in partnership with Boston, Malden, Revere, Lynn, Somerville, Brookline, and MassDOT, earns prestigious honor from TransitCenter for "Best Transit   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -- The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee issued the following news release on Dec. 23, 2021: In 2021, Senate campaigns have been dominated by "nasty" GOP primaries, candidates trading "brutal" attacks, and sparring over "fealty" to Trump - setting the stage for "long, contentious and expensive" primary battles that will leave their candidates "bloodied and cash-poor" heading into the general election. And in Wisconsin and Florida, weak Republican incumbents have face  more

DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 23 -- Haynes and Boone, a law firm, issued the following news release on Dec. 22, 2021: A Haynes and Boone, LLP deal team represented ProPath in connection with its recent sale to Sonic Healthcare (Sonic). The transaction closed Dec. 17, 2021. ProPath is a physician led anatomical and clinical pathology (AP) practice, routinely diagnosing cases from 45 states and several foreign countries. ProPath is highly regarded as a pre-eminent AP practice, with an exceptionally stron  more

WESTBOROUGH, Massachusetts, Dec. 24 (TNSOps) -- The New England First Amendment Coalition issued the following news release: The New England First Amendment Coalition is continuing its push for both in-person and remote access requirements for public meetings in Massachusetts. In a Dec. 20 letter to state legislators -- signed by NEFAC and other open government advocates in the state including the ACLU of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association -- the groups reaffi  more

WESTBOROUGH, Massachusetts, Dec. 24 (TNSPol)(TNSCapv) -- The New England First Amendment Coalition issued the following news release: The New England First Amendment Coalition recently joined a group of media organizations to request that a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capital withdraw its subpoena for a photojournalist's records. "The events of January 6th were an attack on democracy, and it would be incongruous were a Congressional investigation into 1/  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office issued the following news on Dec. 23, 2021: * * * All boaters can help save right whales by slowing down in Right Whale Slow Zones. * * * Right Whales at Risk North Atlantic right whales are one of the world's most endangered large whale species. With the latest preliminary estimate suggesting there are fewer than 350 animals remaining, the population is in decline and nee  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -- The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee issued the following statement by Opportunity Ohio President Matt A. Mayer involving a hybrid hearing on Dec. 15, 2021, entitled "Disaster Recovery Assistance: Authorization of the Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery Program": * * * My name is Matt Mayer. I am the President of Opportunity Ohio. From 2007 to 2016, I served as a Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and The Heritage Fo  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following joint statement: * * * Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Congressmen William Keating (MA-09) and Seth Moulton (MA-06), released the following joint statement celebrating the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) announcement yesterday that it will purchase $25 million in Atlantic groundfish products through the Section 32 program for distribution to various food   more