MEQUON, Wisconsin, June 14 (TNStalk) -- Concordia University issued the following Q&A with Steve Gerner, dean of students and professor of education: Before starting at Concordia in 2008, Gerner began his career as an educator in Reno, Nevada, and then returned to his home state to serve as principal of Siloah School in Milwaukee. At Concordia, he teaches courses related to diversity, city education, leadership, and teacher quality. His research, writing, and other creative endeavors are focuse  more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, June 17 -- Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford issued the following news release: Attorney General Aaron Ford announced a $233.7 million settlement with Mallinckrodt ARD, LLC (formerly known as Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.), a U.S. subsidiary of the Irish pharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt plc (collectively Mallinckrodt). The settlement, joined by all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the federal government, will be paid over a period of seven years. In to  more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, June 9 -- Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford issued the following news release: Attorney General Aaron D. Ford announced that he has joined a coalition of attorneys general urging congressional leadership to enact protections for equitable access to reproductive health care. AG Ford and 18 other attorneys general sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer outlining the protections they support. "The right to reproductive health care is unde  more

CARSON CITY, Nevada, June 15 -- Gov. Stephen Sisolak, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: Governor Steve Sisolak proclaimed June 19, 2022, as Juneteenth National Freedom Day in Nevada to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth is the nationally recognized observance of the final freeing of enslaved people on June 19, 1865 - almost two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. "We celebrate Juneteenth in Nevada to rem  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, June 17 (TNSres) -- The University of Nevada Las Vegas campus issued the following news release: * * * UNLV Brookings Mountain West and Lincy Institute scholars review Silver State's economic development efforts of the past decade and present agenda for the next five years. * * * When UNLV Brookings Mountain West and SRI International released an economic development strategy for Nevada in 2011, there were no pro sports in Las Vegas - or new stadiums and arenas to support   more