ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Sept. 20 -- Altarum, a non-profit organization that works with federal and state health agencies and foundations to improve health outcomes of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, issued the following news: California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) is an initiative to transform the state's Medicare program to make it more equitable, coordinated, and person-centered. To strengthen the capacity of health care providers, community-based organizations, counties, an  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Sept. 20 -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2023: Conservation groups filed an appeal today asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to cancel a controversial logging and vegetation clearing project atop Pine Mountain and Reyes Peak in Southern California's Los Padres National Forest. The appeal seeks to protect a remote ridgeline important to Indigenous groups, climbers, hikers and other outdoor enthusiasts concer  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Sept. 20 (TNSres) -- Associated General Contractors of America issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2023: * * * Texas and Wyoming Top Lists of Year-over-Year Gains, While Missouri, North Dakota Record the Worst Losses; California and Wyoming Lead in Monthly Job Increases, While Tennessee Experiences Largest Declines * * * Construction employment increased in 45 states and the District of Columbia in August from a year earlier, while 32 states and D.C. added con  more

SANTA CLARA, California, Sept. 20 -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2023: The San Francisco Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SFBA), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on San Francisco State University (SFSU) to immediately reverse its decision to cancel the Arab Muslim Ethnicities Diaspora (AMED) Studies' Palestine course and reinstate Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, Di  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (TNSres) -- The Gerontological Society of America issued the following news release: The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) -- the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging -- has named S. Duke Han, PhD, ABPP-CN, of the University of Southern California as the next editor-in-chief of the psychological sciences section of The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, effective January 2024. "I am   more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 20 -- The Freedom of the Press Foundation issued the following news: By Caitlin Vogus, Deputy Director of Advocacy News broke last week that exiled Russian investigative journalist Galina Timchenko's phone was infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware while she was in Berlin and went undetected for more than four months. It's an alarming reminder of just how important it is for journalists everywhere to remain vigilant about threats to their digital security an  more

BERKELEY, California, Sept. 20 (TNSres) -- Friends of the Earth issued the following news release: As America's kids return to school, a new report, Plant-Based Trends in California's School Lunches, finds remarkable improvements in the frequency, quality, and variety of culturally diverse, plant-based meals featured on school menus. "We applaud the strong commitment from school nutrition staff to meet growing student demand for climate-friendly, culturally diverse plant-based school meals," s  more

MILPITAS, California, Sept. 20 (TNSres) -- SEMI, an association serving the manufacturing supply chain for the electronics industry, issued the following news release: Semiconductor manufacturers worldwide are projected to increase 200mm fab capacity by 14% from 2023 through 2026, adding 12 new 200mm volume fabs (excluding EPI) as the industry reaches a record high of more than 7.7 million wafers per month (wpm), SEMI announced today in its 200mm Fab Outlook to 2026 report. Power and compound   more

SAN DIEGO, California, Sept. 20 -- Medical Alley posted the following partner news release from Microbiologics: Leading infectious disease contract research organization (CRO) Microbiologics, has announced an expansion of their Biosafety Level 3 laboratory spaces at the company's Global Virology Center in San Diego, California. Biological Safety Levels (BSL) are ranked from BSL-1 representing the lowest risk pathogens such as Bacillus cereus to BSL-4 representing the highest risk pathogens such  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Sept. 20 (TNSres) -- KFF, an organization that says it focuses on health policy, issued the following news release: Family caregivers played a key role in supporting people who used Medicaid home- and community-based services (HCBS) during the COVID pandemic. Many states used new pandemic-era authorities to support and pay family caregivers and maintain services in other ways amid workforce shortages and other challenges. Now, several states are ending payments to fam  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights issued the following statement on Sept. 19, 2023: * * * Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the fair courts program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement after the Senate confirmed Judge Rita Lin to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California: "The breadth and depth of Judge Rita Lin's legal experience make her an excellent addition to the bench i  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Sept. 20 -- The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund issued the following statement on Sept. 19, 2023: * * * Today Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives reintroduced the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA). Previously passed in the House in 2021, the VRAA would restore some of the voting protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that were severely undermined in Shelby County v. Holder (2013) and weakened in other recent voting righ  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 20 -- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2023: The Mellon Foundation today announced the appointment of its newest Mellon Foundation Fellow in Residence, Kelly Lytle Hernandez, a renowned scholar, author, and historian who currently serves as a professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Lytle Hernandez joins Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natalie Diaz, whose 2023   more

SANTA MONICA, California, Sept. 20 -- The Milken Institute issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2023: The Ann Theodore Foundation Breakthrough Sarcoidosis Initiative (ATF-BSI), in partnership with the Milken Institute, launched its latest round of funding today. Up to $3.4 million in total funding will be made available to researchers from around the world whose work aims to increase scientific understanding of sarcoidosis. The program is accepting applications for two-year research p  more

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, Sept. 20 -- The National Marine Sanctuary Foundation issued the following statement on Sept. 19, 2023: * * * National Marine Sanctuary Foundation President and CEO Joel Johnson released the following statement on the re-introduction of the "Help Our Kelp Act" by Rep. Jared Huffman (CA-2). "Kelp forests are home to otters and sharks and are natural defenders of our coastlines. Native to several national marine sanctuaries, they are carbon sinks, and critically importan  more

JOSHUA TREE, California, Sept. 20 -- The National Parks Conservation Association issued the following news release: The California State Legislature has advanced historic energy procurement legislation (AB 1373) that takes a strong stance against the contentious Eagle Crest Pumped Storage Energy Project proposed near Joshua Tree National Park. The legislation, with support from the California State Legislature and Governor Gavin Newsom, allows the State to serve as a central purchaser of energ  more

OAKLAND, California, Sept. 20 -- Media Justice issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2023: Today, MediaJustice, a national grassroots leader advancing communication rights, access, and power for diverse communities, released its third episode of "Actually...Hold Up," a new five-episode podcast series hosted by Eteng Ettah, to revisit recent pop culture media frenzies and analyze how they were fed to consumers in a calculated and patterned way to manipulate how audiences processed the h  more

NORFOLK, Virginia, Sept. 20 -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued the following statement on Sept. 19, 2023: * * * Please see the following statement from PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna regarding the death of a monkey who was left caged and unattended in a sweltering van by University of California-Davis staffers: Obscenely incompetent staff at the University of California-Davis killed a monkey by leaving her to roast inside a closed van with a heater blasting 130-degree  more

STANFORD, California, Sept. 20 -- The Hoover Institution at Stanford University issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2023: Eugene Volokh, one of America's leading scholars of the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, and law and technology, will be joining the Hoover Institution full time following an illustrious thirty-year career at the UCLA School of Law. Volokh's appointment as a Hoover Institution visiting fellow became effective September 1. On July 1, 2024, Volokh, 56, will b  more

OAKLAND, California, Sept. 20 -- Color of Change, a nonprofit civil rights advocacy organization, issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2023: On Monday, September 18, 2023, the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) and Color Of Change (COC) sent a letter to Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chairman Rob Pitts, urging the Chairman to reconsider his proposal to transfer people incarcerated in the Fulton County Jail to facilities outside of Metro Atlanta. The letter cautions that tra  more

TUCKER, Georgia, Sept. 20 -- The U.S. Poultry and Egg Association issued the following news release: USPOULTRY and the USPOULTRY Foundation are accepting research preproposals from colleges, universities and research facilities through Nov. 1, addressing infectious coryza disease in the commercial layer industry. Infectious coryza, caused by Avibacterium paragallinarum (AP), is an upper respiratory disease leading to drastic drops in egg production. This disease has been traditionally viewed as  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- The Washington Legal Foundation issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2023: Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) today urged the California Court of Appeal to affirm a trial-court's holding that a plan administrator's state-law subrogation suit is preempted under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The appeal arises from an action by LHC Group, the administrator of a self-insured employee welfare benefit plan. LHC sued--both directly and as subrog  more