Friday - November 15, 2024
Tipoffs for Tucson, Arizona (City) Newsletter for Saturday June 01, 2024 ( 5 items )  

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Nearly $187 Million in Grants from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to Modernize Airports
WASHINGTON, May 31 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation issued the following news release: Sixth round of funding further enhances safety and efficiency at airports The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is awarding another round of funding for 90 airport-related infrastructure grants across 34 states. The projects are funded under President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Airport Infrastructure Grants (AIG) program, part of the $25 billion tota  more

IN THE STATES: While Trump Drags His MAGA Party Deeper into Chaos, President Biden Delivers for Americans
WASHINGTON, May 31 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: This week, President Biden and Vice President Harris traveled to Philadelphia, PA to launch Black Voters for Biden-Harris; the campaign's national organizing program to bolster its ongoing historic investments in outreach to the backbone of the Biden-Harris coalition - Black voters. There, President Biden and Vice President Harris underscored the importance of Black voters and emphasized how the Biden-Har  more

MAGA Malarkey: The Extremism You Missed From Republicans This Week
WASHINGTON, May 31 -- The Democratic National Committee issued the following news release: MAGA Republicans stooped to new lows this week with their extremism, hypocrisy, chaos, and -- as President Biden would call it -- malarkey. In case you missed it: Donald Trump is begging ultra-wealthy donors for money in exchange for handouts; Trump and Project 2025 are plotting to gut contraception access; MAGA extremists continue to push cruel a cruel anti-abortion agenda across the country; Tim Scott,   more

University of Arizona: Glimpses of a Volcanic World - New Telescope Images of Jupiter's Moon Io Rival Those From Spacecraft
TUCSON, Arizona, May 31 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: New images of Jupiter's volcano-studded moon Io, taken by the Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham in Arizona, offer the highest resolution of Io ever achieved with an Earth-based instrument. The observations were made possible by a new high-contrast optical imaging instrument, dubbed SHARK-VIS, and the telescope's adaptive optics system, which compensates for the blurring induced by atmospheri  more

University of Arizona: James Webb Space Telescope Spots the Two Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen at Cosmic Dawn
TUCSON, Arizona, May 31 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: When Kevin Hainline saw the data on his screen, he jumped up from his desk, startled by what he saw. In January 2023, Hainline - an associate research professor in the University of Arizona Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory - was the first person to ever lay eyes on the galaxies JADES GS-z14-0 and the slightly less distant GS-z14-1. At the time of their discovery, these galaxies were  more