NEW YORK, March 26 (TNSTalk) -- Lambda Legal issued the following statement on March 24, 2022, by Staff Attorney Kell Olson: * * * Tucson-based Lambda Legal Staff Attorney Kell Olson issued the following statement: "In Arizona, apparently not wishing to be left behind, Arizona legislators pushed through three discriminatory copycat bills, two targeting transgender youth and one criminalizing abortion care after 15 weeks. Governor Ducey needs to veto these hateful bills; lives are in the balan  more

TUCSON, Arizona, April 2 -- Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: In a newly published op-ed, Rep. Raul M, Grijalva (AZ-03) calls on President Biden to deliver fair wages, heat standard, and justice for farmworkers by updating our labor laws and declaring a federal permanent heat standard. Rep. Grijalva wrote the op-ed as a call to action in honor of the legacy of Cesar Chavez, the labor activist, co-founder of the farm workers labor movement and what is now the Uni  more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, issued the following floor statement, which was published in the Congressional Record on March 30, 2022: I am here on the floor today to talk about border security, an issue that is intertwined with our national security and, certainly, with the drug epidemic that we see in our communities around the country. We are in the middle right now of the worst border crisis in the history of our country. This chart tells the story. Monthly border cross  more

TUCSON, Arizona, April 1 (TNSJou) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * UArizona researchers were leaders in a worldwide effort to understand tropical trees and their futures under climate change. * * * For a long time, ecologists assumed tree rings to be absent in tropical trees because of a lack of temperature and rain fluctuations in the trees' environment. But in recent decades, the formation of growth rings has been proven for hundreds of tropical tree sp  more

TUCSON, Arizona, April 1 (TNSJou) -- The University of Arizona issued the following Q&A with Ellen McMahon, professor in the School of Art and inaugural associate dean for research in the College of Fine Arts, on March 31, 2022: * * * UArizona is celebrating Women's History Month by highlighting a few climate researchers across campus who hope to create a better future for everyone. * * * During Woman's History Month, University of Arizona News is spotlighting some of the many women on campu  more

TUCSON, Arizona, March 26 (TNSJou) -- The University of Arizona issued the following Q&A with Mona Arora, assistant research professor in the Community, Environment and Policy Department of the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, on March 25, 2022: * * * UArizona is celebrating Women's History Month by highlighting a few climate researchers across campus who hope to create a better future for everyone. * * * During Woman's History Month, University of Arizona News is spotlightin  more