DENVER, Colorado, May 18 -- The Colorado Senate Democrats posted the following statement on May 17, 2024: * * * Senate President Pro Tempore James Coleman, D-Denver, and Senator Tony Exum, Sr., D-Colorado Springs, the sponsors of SB24-113, and Senator Jessie Danielson, D-Wheat Ridge, and Senator Janice Marchman, D-Loveland, sponsors of HB24-1080, released the following statement today regarding their bills to make youth sports safer in Colorado: "Youth sports are important for kids to grow, p  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, May 18 -- The Arizona House Republicans issued the following news release on May 17, 2024: State Representative David Cook announced that Governor Hobbs today signed House Bill 2751, an emergency measure he sponsored that enables Arizona to join the Great Plains Wildland Fire Protection Compact, enhancing the state's ability to manage and combat forest fires through a mutual aid agreement with other member states. The Governor signed Representative Cook's bill during an event   more

DENVER, Colorado, May 18 -- Denver International Airport issued the following news release on May 17, 2024: Yesterday Breeze Airways inaugurated nonstop service between Denver International Airport (DEN) and Rhode Island T. F. Green International Airport in Providence, R.I. (PVD). With these new flights to a previously unserved city, DEN is now connected nonstop with destinations in 46 U.S. states. "We are pleased to welcome Breeze as our newest airline partner," said DEN CEO Phil Washington.   more

DENVER, Colorado, May 18 -- The Colorado Secretary of State issued the following news release: Proponents of Proposed Initiative #77 "Economic Impact Statement" have withdrawn their initiative from the 2024 General Election Ballot. The initiative will not appear on the ballot as a result. Proposed Initiative #77 was deemed sufficient to appear on the General Election Ballot on April 22, 2024. Proponents submitted 199,126 petition signatures. After reviewing a five-percent random sample of the  more

WASHINGTON, May 18 -- The Federal Election Commission issued the following news release on May 17, 2024: At its open meeting yesterday, the Federal Election Commission declared Mike Pence and his principal campaign committee, Mike Pence for President (MPFP), eligible to receive public matching funds for Pence's 2024 presidential campaign for the Republican Party nomination. Additionally, since Pence suspended his campaign for the nomination in October 2023, the Commission also initially determi  more

WASHINGTON, May 18 -- NASA issued the following news release: NASA has selected four companies to provide spacecraft and related services, including acquiring spacecraft components and equipment, in support of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The multiple awards, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity base contracts, are firm-fixed-price with a total combined value of $6 billion. These multi-agency contracts may support other NASA centers and federal agencies. The pe  more

WASHINGTON, May 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management issued the following news release on May 16, 2024: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) today announced four research and development projects selected to receive nearly $32 million to advance technologies that will help reduce natural gas flaring at oil production sites, a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions, by transforming gas in  more

LAKEWOOD, Colorado, May 18 -- The Western Area Power Administration issued the following news release: Administrator and CEO Tracey A. LeBeau testified May 16 before the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee's Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee on the Western Area Power Administration's Fiscal Year 2025 budget request. Together with leadership from each power marketing administration, as well as other federal agencies, LeBeau briefed members of Congress on WAPA's advancements and str  more