| Public Policy Tipoffs Involving New Jersey Newsletter for Sunday April 23, 2023 ( 9 items ) |
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After 15-Year Wait: Mandatory Permit Denials for New Facilities With Disproportionate Negative Impact on Overburdened NJ Communities
TRENTON, New Jersey, April 18 (TNSgov) -- Clean Water Action issued the following news release on April 17, 2023:
After 15 years of work and waiting, the New Jersey Environmental Justice Law (N.J.S.A. 13:1D-157, et seq, signed September 2020), and corresponding rule published in the New Jersey Register today, are now final and put into immediate effect. Clean Water Action, Ironbound Community Corporation, and NJ Environmental Justice Alliance worked tirelessly to get both the law and regulation
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CAIR-NJ Welcomes NJ Dept. of Corrections' Policy Allowing Religious Head Coverings for Publicly Posted Photographs
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, New Jersey, April 18 (TNSgov) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued the following news release:
The New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NJ) today welcomed the New Jersey Department of Corrections' (NJDOC) new policy allowing incarcerated people to wear religious head coverings for intake mugshots that are publicly available.
The department's decision comes after almost two years of advocacy spearheaded by CAIR-NJ civil rights at
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Carnegie Foundation, Educational Testing Service Partner to Transform Educational Pillars They Built: Carnegie Unit, Standardized Tests
PRINCETON, New Jersey, April 19 (TNSres) -- Educational Testing Service issued the following news release on April 17, 2023:
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and ETS today announced a new partnership designed to radically transform education assessment across the United States. In collaboration with practitioners and policymakers nationwide, the partnership aims to create a robust, scalable suite of assessment and analytic tools that captures the full range of skills requ
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Cooper Innovation Center Receives $70,000 Grant to Study New Wearable Heart Monitor Developed by Cooper Physician
CAMDEN, New Jersey, April 21 (TNSfund) -- Cooper University Health Care issued the following news release:
Cooper University Health Care's Innovation Center has received a $70,000 grant from the New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF) to study a new wearable heart monitor for the early detection of congestive heart failure.
The novel device, invented and developed over several years by Robert A. Hirsh, MD, a member of the Anesthesiology Department at Cooper and associate professor of clinical anes
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Hoover Institution Acquires Records of the Kuban Cossack Association
STANFORD, California, April 20 (TNSres) -- The Hoover Institution at Stanford University issued the following news release:
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The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired the records of the Kuban Cossack Association, which include the papers of engineers Nicholas Feodoroff, author of the memoir A Cossack Galloped Far Away, and Aleksei Shilenok, who was active in the Russian emigre Beseda Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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The Kuban Cossack Association was a New Jersey
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National Council for Mental Wellbeing Welcomes Debbian Fletcher-Blake to Board of Directors
WASHINGTON, April 21 (TNSper) -- The National Council for Mental Wellbeing issued the following news release:
The National Council for Mental Wellbeing is pleased to announce that Debbian Fletcher-Blake, APRN, FNP, will join its Board of Directors effective immediately and serve in one of two seats for Region 2 (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands).
"I'm honored to have Debbian Fletcher-Blake join the National Council Board of Directors," National Council President and CEO Chuck
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NGA: Governors Murphy, Whitmer Hold Convening on Strengthening Youth Mental Health
DETROIT, Michigan, April 20 (TNSgov) -- The National Governors Association issued the following news release on April 19, 2023:
National Governors Association (NGA) Chair New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy continued his nationwide listening tour on youth mental health issues with an event hosted by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. The Governors held a roundtable discussion with those on the frontlines of youth mental health care in the third of a series of conversations to advance the NGA Chair
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Researchers at Cooper University Health Care Find That Vitamin D Supplements May Reduce Incidence of Influenza-Like Illness
CAMDEN, New Jersey, April 19 (TNSjou) -- Cooper University Health Care issued the following news release:
In a new study published recently in Nutrients, a peer-reviewed journal of human nutrition, researchers at Cooper University Health Care found that Vitamin D supplementation can reduce the incidence of influenza-like illness in populations at risk.
The study, funded by the Won Sook Chung Foundation, was conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic to help prevent viral infections in health care
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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Comments From Richard Besser, MD, on the Initial Proposals For Updating OMB's Race and Ethnicity Statistical Standards
PRINCETON, New Jersey, April 12 (TNStalk) -- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation issued the following statement:
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The following comments were submitted by Richard Besser, MD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) President and CEO, in response to a request from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on the initial proposals from the Federal Interagency Technical Working Group on Race and Ethnicity Standards (Working Group) for revising OMB's 1997 Statistical Policy Directive No. 15: Sta
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