WASHINGTON, May 16 -- AmeriCorps issued the following news release: In response to America's youth mental health crisis, 11 states are joining forces with AmeriCorps, the Schultz Family Foundation and Pinterest to recruit, train and deploy the nation's first Youth Mental Health Corps to help teenagers access critical mental health resources. The new Youth Mental Health Corps is an innovative, public-private collaboration, with a robust set of partners that include America's Service Commissions  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, May 16 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mountain-Plains Regional Information Office issued the following report on May 15, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Midwest Region - April 2024": * * * Area prices rose 0.5 percent in April, up 2.8 percent over the year * * * Prices in the Midwest Region, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), advanced 0.5 percent in April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Stat  more

LENEXA, Kansas, May 15 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * Under President Biden's Investing in America Agenda, EPA offers grant assistance at no cost to small and financially distressed communities * * * The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $2,883,000 in funding through the Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Reuse Municipal Grant program to help communities address stormwater and sewer infrastructure needs in Re  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: FEMA will begin canvassing neighborhoods affected by recent tornadoes in Iowa starting Wednesday, May 15, in coordination with state and county emergency management. FEMA Disaster Survivor Assistance (DSA) teams will be working in Pottawattamie and Shelby counties in Iowa, then visiting other Iowa counties designated for FEMA Individual Assistance. In Nebrask  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 16 -- The Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird issued the following news release: Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird called on Biden's EPA to reverse a rule that will devastate Iowa agriculture by banning formaldehyde that has been used at safe levels for years. EPA's mandate effectively bans formaldehyde by mandating that formaldehyde levels be beneath the background levels naturally found in many Americans' homes. Formaldehyde is a critical component in ensuring families ha  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 16 -- The Iowa Department of Education issued the following news release on May 15, 2024: Director McKenzie Snow, Iowa Department of Education, and Dean Dan Clay, University of Iowa's College of Education, today announced Shawn Datchuk as the next director of the Iowa Reading Research Center. The Iowa Reading Research Center was created by the Iowa Legislature in 2012 and is established by the Iowa Department of Education in partnership with the University of Iowa. Its pu  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 16 -- Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, issued the following news release on May 15, 2024: Today, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed HF 2545 (https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=90&ba=HF%202545) into law, a bill which improves educational standards and requires teaching on: World War I, World War II, the Holocaust, Cold War, 9/11, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and amendments, the Emancipation proclamation, and more. Gov. Reynolds signed the bill at Beit   more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 16 -- Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, issued the following news release on May 15, 2024: Today, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed HF 2673 (https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=90&ba=HF%202673), a bill that aligns Iowa's 32 disconnected mental health and substance use regions into 7 unified behavioral health districts to improve outcomes for Iowans, into law. "Today, we align Iowa's 32 separate mental health and substance use service regions into one, unified behavioral he  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, May 16 -- Gov. Kim Reynolds, R-Iowa, issued the following news release on May 15, 2024: Today, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed SF 2391 (https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=90&ba=SF%202391), a bill for an act prohibiting the misbranding of certain food products, and providing penalties, and HF 2649 (https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=90&ba=HF%202649), a bill for an act excluding the net capital gain from the sale of certain livestock from the computation  more

AMES, Iowa, May 16 -- The Iowa Transportation Commission issued the following news release on May 15, 2024: The Iowa Transportation Commission will hold a public input meeting in Council Bluffs at the Hilton Garden Inn, 2702 Mid America Drive, on Tuesday, June 11, to hear about transportation matters from representatives of local government, interest groups, and individuals. Items that may be discussed at the meeting include the Iowa Transportation Improvement Program; transportation policies;   more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, May 15 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news on May 14, 2024: Attorney General Alan Wilson is part of two lawsuits to stop both the Biden administration and the State of California from imposing electric-vehicle mandates on truck owners and operators throughout the country. A coalition of 24 states on Monday filed a petition for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to challenge the Biden administration's new regula  more

SACRAMENTO, California, May 15 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on May 14, 2024: Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to Iowa businesses and residents as a result of President Biden's major disaster declaration, U.S. Small Business Administration's Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman announced. The declaration covers the Clarke, Harrison, Mills, Polk, Pottawattamie, Ringgold, Shelby and Union counties as   more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 16 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news: Attorney General Sean D. Reyes joined a letter to President Joe Biden over the World Health Organization's International Health Regulations and new Pandemic Treaty. The letter, led by the State of Montana, urges the president to reject these accords to protect individual freedoms, national sovereignty, and local control. In their letter, the attorneys general share several reasons for their oppositio  more