AUSTIN, Texas, June 15 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading a coalition of 19 states to challenge the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's ("FERC") decision to adopt rules that would force the Biden Administration's costly and inefficient "green energy" transition onto states. FERC Order No. 1920, issued on May 13, 2024, grants unprecedented electrical grid oversight to FERC, compromising the ability of individua  more

AUSTIN, Texas, June 15 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release on June 14, 2024: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has obtained a stay from the Supreme Court of Texas ("SCOTX") stopping an unlawful "guaranteed income" scheme by Harris County called "Uplift Harris" that violates the Texas Constitution. In April 2024, Attorney General Paxton sued (https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-sues-harris-county-over-illegal-guarant  more

DALLAS, Texas, June 15 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on June 14, 2024, entitled "County Employment and Wages in Arkansas - Fourth Quarter 2023": * * * Employment rose in the three largest counties in Arkansas from December 2022 to December 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (Large counties are those with annual average employment levels of 75,000 or more in 2022.)   more

DALLAS, Texas, June 15 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Southwest Regional Information Office issued the following report on June 14, 2024, entitled "County Employment and Wages in New Mexico - Fourth Quarter 2023": * * * Employment rose 1.1 percent in Bernalillo, New Mexico's only large county, from December 2022 to December 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (Large counties are those with annual average employment levels of 75,000  more

SACRAMENTO, California, June 15 -- Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-California, issued the following news release on June 14, 2024: The Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) today announced the latest round of awards under the CalCompetes program, bringing the program's total job creation commitments to 159,000 and resulting in over $50 billion in private investment in the state through nearly 1,200 awards over the past ten years. "CalCompetes' success over the past decade is a p  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, June 15 -- Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr issued the following news release: Attorney General Chris Carr has filed suit against the Biden administration's Department of Labor (DOL) over a new rule that would force agricultural employers to allow temporary foreign-migrant workers to form a union and engage in collective bargaining. "President Biden is using his Department of Labor to burden American farmers, and we're fighting back," said Carr. "At a time when every indu  more

DALLAS, Texas, June 15 -- The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas issued the following news release on June 14, 2024: The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has named Armida Riojas as regional executive for the San Antonio Branch market. In her new role, Riojas will lead efforts to strengthen the Bank's presence in the Central and South Texas region. By deepening relationships with business and community leaders through a focus on regional outreach, the Dallas Fed will be able to gather more grassroot  more

AUSTIN, Texas, June 15 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Judge Grant Dorfman, who served as the Deputy First Assistant Attorney General since December 2020, left the Office of the Attorney General ("OAG") after more than three years of dedicated service. He has been nominated by Governor Greg Abbott to serve as a judge on Texas's newly established Eleventh Business Court Division in Houston. During his time with the OAG, Judge Dorfman championed the causes  more

DALLAS, Texas, June 15 -- The FBI Dallas Field Office issued the following news release: The FBI's Dallas Division requests the public's assistance to identify the unknown bank robber responsible for a June 6, 2024, bank robbery in Fort Worth, Texas. The robbery occurred at approximately 2:10 p.m. at the First Convenience Bank branch located inside the Walmart on Anderson Boulevard in Fort Worth. The robbery suspect walked to the bank teller counter with a small child seated in a shopping cart  more

AUSTIN, TEXAS, June 15 -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas, a district bank in the Federal Home Loan Bank System, issued the following news release: An $850,000 Affordable Housing Program (AHP) grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas), through its member Texas Capital, will help fund a 60-unit multifamily affordable housing development designed for victims of abuse and homelessness in Austin, Texas. The AHP grant was awarded to SAFE, an Austin-based nonprofit that sup  more

AUSTIN, Texas, June 15 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release on June 14, 2024: Governor Greg Abbott today announced that he added Hopkins and Titus counties to the state's disaster declaration for Texas communities impacted by recent severe weather that began on April 26. Additionally, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) approved adding Bell, Robertson, and Terrell counties to the Federal Disaster Declaration. "To ensure Texans across the state have the res  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases issued the following news release: The amount of infectious H5N1 influenza viruses in raw milk rapidly declined with heat treatment in laboratory research conducted by scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. However, small, detectable amounts of infectious virus remained in raw   more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, June 15 -- Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minnesota, issued the following proclamation on June 14, 2024: WHEREAS: In late August 1619, 20-30 enslaved Africans landed at Point Comfort - known today as Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia - aboard the English privateer ship White Lion, marking the beginning stages of what would become the institution of slavery in the present-day United States; and WHEREAS: Our nation was conceived on July 4th, 1776, with the Declaration of Independence and i  more

AUSTIN, Texas, June 15 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), and the Texas National Guard continue to work together to secure the border; stop the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and people into Texas; and prevent, detect, and interdict transnational criminal activity between ports of entry. Since the launch of Operation Lone Star, the multi-agency effort has led to over 513,700 illegal immigrant apprehe  more

AUSTIN, Texas, June 15 -- The Texas Education Agency issued the following news release on June 14, 2024: The Texas Education Agency (TEA) today released the spring 2024 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR(R)) results for students in Grades 3-8. The results include assessments in mathematics and reading-language arts (RLA) in grades 3-8, 5th and 8th grade science and 8th grade social studies. Alongside the statewide release, individual student STAAR report cards are also av  more

AUSTIN, Texas, June 15 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release on June 14, 2024: The Supreme Court of Texas ("SCOTX") has granted review of the lower court decision that has permitted politically motivated lawfare by the State Bar of Texas against First Assistant Attorney General Brent Webster to continue. Following the 2020 presidential election, Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the State of Texas in response to  more

WASHINGTON, June 15 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on June 14, 2024: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.7 million grant to the city of Perryton, Texas, to support business growth following natural disasters in the region. This grant will create the Rebuild Perryton Incubator, converting an existing building into commercia  more