NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Dec. 14 (TNSrpt) -- The American Farm Bureau Federation issued the following news release: After five years of outreach and education by farm groups, a new poll shows increased awareness and willingness to talk about the opioid crisis among rural adults, compared to 2017. Sixty percent say adults in their community are more aware of the crisis than they were five years ago, and nearly 8 in 10 adults (77%) report feeling comfortable having a conversation about opioids. How  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (TNSper) -- The Software and Information Industry Association issued the following news release on Dec. 15, 2022: The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) today announces the appointment of Danny Bounds as Manager, Education Technology Policy. He will support and advocate on behalf of SIIA's education technology members on key issues and initiatives. Bounds has spent the majority of his career in education, most recently as Federal Programs Ombudsman for the T  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Dec. 16 (TNSgov) -- The Southern Environmental Law Center issued the following news release: The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of a local community group, Concerned Citizens of West Tennessee, filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that a federal loan program meant for "family farms" is illegally being used to finance industrial poultry operations controlled by massive corporations. The first-of-its-kind lawsuit centers around an industrial poultry opera  more