BOSTON, Massachusetts, Jan. 31 -- The Berkshire Bank issued the following news release: Berkshire Bank, a leading socially responsible community bank with financial centers throughout New England and New York, today announced that it joins 483 other companies across the globe as a member of the 2023 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI), a modified market capitalization-weighted index developed to gauge the performance of public companies dedicated to reporting gender-related data. This referen  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following report (No. USDL-23-0149) on Feb. 1, 2023: Unemployment rates were lower in December than a year earlier in 244 of the 389 metropolitan areas, higher in 115 areas, and unchanged in 30 areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. A total of 172 areas had jobless rates of less than 3.0 percent and 2 areas had rates of at least 10.0 percent. Nonfarm payroll employment increa  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Feb. 3 (TNSawa) -- Carnegie Mellon University issued the following news: Tuomas Sandholm, a professor in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, will receive the AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity to recognize his contributions to the design and implementation of organ exchanges and their direct impact on both practice and policy. The award is among the most prestigious given by the Association for the Advancement of Ar  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Feb. 4 -- The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management issued the following news release on Feb. 3, 2023: The Department of Environmental Management (DEM) today is announcing a strategy of increasing the use of low-severity prescribed burns in several areas of Rhode Island to reduce the buildup of combustible materials on forest floors and grasslands - thus minimizing the risk of high-severity, unplanned, destructive wildfires. In 2022, which was marked by a  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, Feb. 4 -- Gov. Janet Mills, D-Maine, issued the following radio address: High energy prices - from the cost of electricity to home heating oil to kerosene - have made staying warm this winter difficult for many Maine families. That's why I proposed - and signed into law - a Winter Emergency Relief Plan to provide most Maine families with financial assistance to help ease the burden of increased costs. This week, the State of Maine mailed the first 5,000 payments to Maine peopl  more

AUGUSTA, Maine, Feb. 4 (TNSsro) -- The Maine Public Utilities Commission issued the following order (No. 2021-00369) on Feb. 3, 2023: * * * PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION Request for Proposals for Renewable Energy Generation and Transmission Projects Pursuant to the Northern Maine Renewable Energy Development Program ORDER REGARDING MASSACHUSETTS DETERMINATION BARTLETT, Chairman; DAVIS and SCULLY/1, Commissioners I. SUMMARY Through this ORDER and pursuant to 35-A M.R.S. Sec. 3210-I, the Commi  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Feb. 3, 2023: Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-05), Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), and Congressman Stephen Lynch (MA-08) today touted their successful efforts to secure more than $42 million in federal funding in the end-of-year omnibus spending package for 34 community-based projects in Boston and across the  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 4 -- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued the following news on Feb. 3, 2023: Mayor Michelle Wu announced today the members of a steering committee of real estate and civic leaders to advise on reforms to Article 80 of the Boston Zoning Code being undertaken by the Mayor's Office and the Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA). She announced her intention to create the committee during her State of the City speech last week as one piece of a comprehensive set of refor  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) led a push joined by Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) urging Danco Laboratories, a manufacturer of mifepristone - which is safely and legally used to manage miscarriages -to submit an application to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to add miscarriage management to the medication's label. The label curr  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and a group of Senators sent a letter to Danco Laboratories, a manufacturer of mifepristone, urging them to submit an application to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to add miscarriage management to the medication's label. Currently, mifepristone's label includes medication abortion, but it can also be safely and legally used for miscarriage manageme  more