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News Tipoffs - Virginia Editors Newsletter for Sunday July 21, 2024 ( 9 items )  

A Report Card on Sex Ed for All in the City of Alexandria
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 20 (TNSres) -- The city of Alexandria issued the following news release: The City of Alexandria Children & Youth Community Plan 2025 (CYCP) sets long-term priorities and provides a roadmap to success through community-wide coordination and delivery of services to all city children from birth to 21 years-old and their families. CYCP 2025 goals include ensuring that all children, youth and families: 1) are physically safe and healthy 2) are academically successful and   more

BLS Issues Report on State Employment and Unemployment - June 2024
WASHINGTON, July 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following report (No. USDL-24-1411) on July 19, 2024, entitled "State Employment and Unemployment - June 2024": * * * Unemployment rates were higher in June in 8 states, lower in 1 state, and stable in 41 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Thirty-one states and the District had jobless rate increases from a year earlier, 2 states had decreas  more

Contracts for July 19, 2024
WASHINGTON, July 20 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: NAVY Northrup Grumman Systems Corp. Aerospace Systems, Melbourne, Florida, is awarded a $1,456,019,386 modification (P00086) to a previously awarded fixed-priced-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost contract (N0001918C1037). This modification procures nine E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft (four for the Navy and five for Japan), to include over and above support. Work will be performed in Saint Augustine,  more

Governor Glenn Youngkin Announces Additional Administration and Board Appointments
RICHMOND, Virginia, July 20 -- Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Virginia, issued the following news release on July 19, 2024: Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced additional key administration and board appointments. ADMINISTRATION APPOINTMENTS HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES * James Williams, Commissioner, Virginia Department of Social Services * * * BOARD APPOINTMENTS AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY AQUACULTURE ADVISORY BOARD * Ann Gallivan of Bayford, CEO, JC Walker Brothers, Inc. * Ty Walker o  more

Governor Glenn Youngkin Announces Continued Job Growth With 15,000 New Jobs Added in June
RICHMOND, Virginia, July 20 (TNSres) -- Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Virginia, issued the following news release on July 19, 2024: Governor Glenn Youngkin today announced that according to BLS' Current Employment Statistics Survey ("CES" or "establishment survey"), Virginia reported non-farm payroll employment gains of 15,000 in the month of June, totaling 258,000 more jobs since January 2022. According to BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics ("LAUS", or "the household survey"), Virginia's seasonal  more

Governor Glenn Youngkin Releases Statement on Tech Outages
RICHMOND, Virginia, July 20 -- Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Virginia, issued the following statement on July 19, 2024: * * * This morning, Governor Glenn Youngkin released the following statement on tech outages: "Amidst the global tech outages, overnight we have conducted an initial assessment to determine impacts across government agencies and departments for functionality," said Governor Glenn Youngkin. "Critical health and safety systems, including 911 call systems and transportation infrastruc  more

In Luzerne County, Governor Shapiro Highlights Economic Development Investments Secured in 2024-25 Budget to Turn Dirt Into Jobs, Make PA More Competitive, and Attract More Businesses
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, July 20 -- The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development issued the following news: * * * Governor Shapiro secured $500 million for site development, including $400 million for the PA SITES program to make Pennsylvania more competitive on a national scale, attract more businesses, and create good-paying jobs in the bipartisan 2024-25 budget. * * * Duryea, PA - Today, Governor Josh Shapiro and Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED  more

NASA Sets Briefings for Crew-9 Mission to Space Station
WASHINGTON, July 19 -- NASA issued the following news release: NASA will host a pair of news conferences Friday, July 26, from the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston to highlight upcoming crew rotation missions to the International Space Station. NASA will host a mission overview news conference at 12 p.m. EDT and provide coverage on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency's website. The news conference will cover NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the microgravity lab  more

NCUA, Agencies Request Comment on Anti-Money Laundering/Countering Financing of Terrorism Proposed Rule
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, July 20 -- The National Credit Union Administration posted the following joint news release on July 19, 2024, with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Treasury Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve System: Four federal financial institution regulatory agencies today requested comment on a proposal to update their requirements for supervised institutions to establish, implement, and maintain effective, risk-based, and reasonably designed a  more