WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * For 15 years, Shannon Griffin has volunteered to give free medical care to Hondurans, and this year she shared that experience with her son * * * An occupational health nurse at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Shannon Griffin first traveled to Olanchito, Honduras, in 2006. She'd come to the town of 100,000 people as the only nurse on a team of doctors that had volu  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Sept. 28 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Midwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on Sept. 27, 2023, entitled "North Dakota Job Openings and Labor Turnover - July 2023": * * * North Dakota had 26,000 job openings in July 2023, compared to 28,000 openings in June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table 1.) Regional Commissioner Jason Palmer noted that the job openings rate in North Dakota w  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (TNSrep) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * Unemployment rates were higher in August in 10 states, lower in 2 states, and stable in 38 states and the District of Columbia. Twenty-five states had jobless rate decreases from a year earlier, 9 states and the District had increases, and 16 states had little change. The national unemployment rate, 3.8 percent, rose by 0.3 percentage point over t  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- Gov. Joe Lombardo, R-Nevada, issued the following news release on Sept. 26, 2023: In case you missed it, 17 Republican governors, led by Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo and Utah Governor Spencer Cox, sent a letter today to the Biden Administration criticizing efforts to make the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) less efficient, less effective, invite litigation, and fail to fully consider state-specific information in the NEPA process. Led by Nevada Governor Joe Lom  more

MINOT AFB, North Dakota, Sept. 28 -- The U.S. Air Force Minot Air Force Base issued the following news: By Senior Airman Evan Lichtenhan, 5th Bomb Wing Public Affairs Until recently, 5th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS) crew chiefs performing maintenance on the ground used headsets wired into the B-52H Stratofortress to communicate with the crew inside. The wires raised a number of concerns, to include mobility and the price of replacing the wires. "Today's Airmen need to be more maneuver  more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, Sept. 28 -- Gov. Doug Burgum, R-North Dakota, issued the following news on Sept. 27, 2023: Public input is now being accepted for the second round of Gov. Doug Burgum's Red Tape Reduction initiative aimed at eliminating unnecessary and outdated regulations, rules, policies and procedures to make government more efficient and effective and help lower costs for taxpayers, Lt. Gov. Tammy Miller announced today. Burgum created the Red Tape Reduction Working Group by executi  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Sept. 28 -- Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued the following news release: Attorney General Hilgers joined a coalition of 20 states in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court urging the Court to grant a writ of certiorari to review the Ninth Circuit's widely criticized decision in Johnson v. City of Grants Pass, which held that the Constitution includes an individual right to sleep and camp on sidewalks, playgrounds, and other public lands. The decision ha  more

MINOT AFB, North Dakota, Sept. 28 -- The U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command issued the following news: By Senior Airman Evan Lichtenhan, 5th Bomb Wing Public Affairs Until recently, 5th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS) crew chiefs performing maintenance on the ground used headsets wired into the B-52H Stratofortress to communicate with the crew inside. The wires raised a number of concerns, to include mobility and the price of replacing the wires. "Today's Airmen need to be more maneuve  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration issued the following news release on Sept. 27, 2023: The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced today it has awarded 28 grants totaling $74,424,986.73 to 28 Tribal entities as part of the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (TBCP). With funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, these new grants bring the tota  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Sept. 28 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on Sept. 26, 2023: Small nonfarm businesses in 11 South Dakota counties and neighboring counties in Minnesota and North Dakota are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Director Jeffrey Lusk of SBA's Disaster Field Operations Center-West. These loans offset economic losses because of  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 -- The White House issued the following news release: With just days left before the end of the fiscal year, extreme House Republicans are playing partisan games with peoples' lives and marching our country toward a government shutdown that would have damaging impacts across the country--including delaying long-term disaster recovery and undermining preparedness in communities across the country. Their partisan approach stands in stark contrast to the Senate's bipartisan pr  more