NEW YORK, Feb. 23 (TNSOps) -- The Alliance for Downtown New York issued the following news release: The Alliance for Downtown New York, the nonprofit business improvement district for Lower Manhattan, has launched a new Instagram filter (@downtownnnyc) that allows users to place three-dimensional renderings of the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge, Fearless Girl, the Oculus and One World Trade Center anywhere in their own hometown. Instagram users who post a photo or video using the AR fil  more

CLARKSDALE, Mississippi, Feb. 23 -- The Delta Regional Authority issued the following news release on Feb. 22, 2022: Delta Regional Authority (DRA) today announced a $1,793,734 investment that will boost economic development and improve the quality of life for Southern Illinois communities and residents. The investment will be matched by nearly $600,000 and will attract an additional $16 million in leveraged private investment (LPI) into Southern Illinois. The 8 new investment projects will im  more

CLARKSDALE, Mississippi, Feb. 23 -- The Delta Regional Authority issued the following news release on Feb. 22, 2022: Delta Regional Authority (DRA) today announced a $1,740,869 investment that will boost economic development and improve the quality of life for West Tennessee communities and residents. The investment will be matched by $4.7 million and will attract an additional $12 million in leveraged private investment (LPI) into Tennessee. The five new investment projects will improve water  more

CLARKSDALE, Mississippi, Feb. 23 -- The Delta Regional Authority issued the following news release on Feb. 22, 2022: Delta Regional Authority (DRA) today announced a $2,297,010 investment that will boost economic development and improve the quality of life for Southeast Missouri communities and residents. The investment will be matched by $4.7 million and will attract an additional $5.7 million in leveraged private investment (LPI) into Missouri. The 10 new investment projects will improve wa  more

CLARKSDALE, Mississippi, Feb. 23 -- The Delta Regional Authority issued the following news release on Feb. 22, 2022: Delta Regional Authority (DRA) today announced a $2,783,204 investment that will boost economic development and improve the quality of life for Western Kentucky communities and residents. The investment will be matched by $26.7 million and will attract an additional $398.7 million in leveraged private investment (LPI) into Western Kentucky. The 6 new investment projects will imp  more

CLARKSDALE, Mississippi, Feb. 23 -- The Delta Regional Authority issued the following news release on Feb. 22, 2022: Delta Regional Authority (DRA) today announced a $3,239,382 investment that will boost economic development and improve the quality of life for Arkansas communities and residents. The investment will be matched by $7.1 million and will attract an additional $45.8 million in leveraged private investment (LPI) into the Arkansas Delta. The 8 new investment projects will improve wat  more

CLARKSDALE, Mississippi, Feb. 23 -- The Delta Regional Authority issued the following news release on Feb. 22, 2022: Delta Regional Authority (DRA) today announced a $4,696,894 investment that will boost economic development and improve the quality of life for Mississippi Delta communities and residents. The investment will be matched by $6.8 million and will attract an additional $67.2 million in leveraged private investment (LPI) into Mississippi. The 14 new investment projects will improve   more

CLARKSDALE, Mississippi, Feb. 24 -- The Delta Regional Authority issued the following news release on Feb. 23, 2022: Delta Regional Authority (DRA) today announced a $6,806,567 investment that will boost economic development and improve the quality of life for Louisiana communities and residents. The investment will be matched by $9 million and will attract an additional $4 million in leveraged private investment (LPI) into Louisiana. The 17 new investment projects will improve water and sewer  more

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Feb. 25 (TNSRes) -- The Environmental Working Group issued the following news release: Ten counties in the Mississippi River basin received over $3 billion in crop insurance payments between 2001 and 2020, much of it for losses caused by extreme weather tied to the climate crisis, according to a new Environmental Working Group analysis of Department of Agriculture data. Those counties are among the insurance payout hot spots identified by EWG's report and its companion   more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 22 (TNSJou) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: * * * By targeting the stress-response system in the brain, an LSU pharmacologist has discovered a way to decrease drug craving and relapse into drug use. * * * The need for new solutions to addiction has reached an all-time high. More than 2,000 Louisianans died from drug overdoses in the past year--a 10-fold increase from two decades ago. This is in line with national trends. While syn  more

MOLINE, Illinois, Feb. 18 -- Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (IL-17) and U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) announced that Rock Island County will receive $1,850,000 in federal funding to expand MetroLINK's passenger ferry service. The funding, awarded by the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) Passenger Ferry Grant Program, will support the construction of a terminal near the newly developed "Bend District  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Feb. 24 -- Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) highlighted a $6,806,567 Delta Regional Authority (DRA) investment to boost economic development and improve the quality of life for Louisiana communities and residents. The investment will be matched by $9 million in local public investment and will attract an additional $4 million in leveraged private investment (LPI) into Louisiana. "A huge investment   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, issued the following news release on Feb. 22, 2022: U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced today the Delta Regional Authority (DRA) will provide several Western Kentucky communities with investments totaling $2,783,204 to improve local public services and spur economic development. The DRA will allocate funding to projects in Hopkinsville, Benton, Calhoun, Guthrie, Wickliffe, and Henderson, Kentu  more