PHOENIX, Arizona, Sept. 20 -- Arizona Senate Democrats posted the following statement on Sept. 19, 2024, by State Sen. Christine Marsh: * * * A new analysis from ConsumerAffairs (https://www.consumeraffairs.com/movers/best-states-for-public-education.html) ranked Arizona 51st (50 states plus the District of Columbia) in public education. It also ranked Arizona 40th in K-12 performance, 50th in school funding and resources, 43rd in higher education quality and 45th in school safety. Senator Chr  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Sept. 19 -- The Arizona Department of Game and Fish issued the following news: The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD), partnering with Arizona's wildlife conservation organizations, put a combined total of $24.2 million into on-the-ground projects for terrestrial and aquatic wildlife conservation in 2023. Equally impressive to the dollar amount was the teamwork it took to make these projects happen: 151 conservation partners helped complete 867 distinct efforts. See the  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Sept. 20 -- Gov. Katie Hobbs, D-Arizona, issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2024: Today, Governor Katie Hobbs announced the appointment of Sandra Bensley to the Pima County Superior Court. Judge Bensley was appointed as a court commissioner earlier this year. Her prior experience includes eleven years of private practice, focused on probate, trusts, and estate planning, as well as guardianship and conservatorship matters. She also worked nearly five years at the Pi  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Sept. 20 -- The Arizona Democratic Party issued the following news release: U.S. Senate Republicans blocked a bill to protect IVF and Arizona Republic Opinion's EJ Montini pointed out that Kari Lake "doesn't believe Congress should get involved" in protecting IVF. Kari Lake's dangerous and extreme agenda includes stripping Arizonans of their reproductive rights, banning abortions without exceptions for rape or incest, calling on sheriffs to enforce the 1864 ban, banning medic  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Sept. 20 -- The Arizona Democratic Party issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2024: * * * Kari Lake's agenda will be a "disgrace to our elders, to our service members who sacrifice their lives and well being," make "women's lives more difficult and more dangerous" * * * Yesterday in Phoenix on International Equal Pay Day, Arizona college students, mothers, seniors, health care professionals, and advocates held a roundtable discussion on how Kari Lake's extreme ant  more

KIRKSVILLE, Missouri, Sept. 20 -- A.T. Still University issued the following news: Alison de la Montaigne EdD, OTR/L, president-elect, ArizOTA, Rebecca Wolf, JD, MPH, OTR/L, chair, associate professor, ATSU-ASHS OT, and Heidi Carpenter OTD, OTR/L, president, ArizOTA. The Occupational Therapy (OT) department at A.T. Still University-Arizona School of Health Sciences (ATSU-ASHS) recently hosted the 2024 OTs in Pelvic Health Summit on the University's Mesa, Arizona, campus. Organized by The Func  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Sept. 19 -- The Arizona House Republicans issued the following news release: State Representative Julie Willoughby, a professional ER trauma nurse, proudly acknowledges the important role surgical technologists play in healthcare during National Surgical Technologists Week, observed from September 15-21, 2024. This weeklong observance highlights the critical contributions these professionals make in ensuring patient safety and supporting surgical teams nationwide. "Surgical t  more

LAREDO, Texas, Sept. 20 (TNSres) -- Texas A&M International University, a member of the Texas A&M University System, issued the following news release: Longtime Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) professor of Public Administration and author Dr. Mehnaaz Momen has been selected as a finalist in the "Best Academic Themed Book, College Level - English Category by the International Latino Book Awards for her book Listening to Laredo: A Border City in a Globalized Age, The University of Ariz  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Sept. 20 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona's Health Sciences issued the following news release: Faculty from the University of Arizona Health Sciences, in partnership with the ADHS and PCHD, developed materials to educate medical professionals about how extreme heat may impact patients on certain medications. A new statewide task force led by the Southwest Center on Resilience for Climate Change and Health at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Publ  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Sept. 20 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: A new international study provides a shortlist of the wildlife species present at the market from which SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, most likely arose in late 2019. The study, published Thursday in the journal Cell, is based on an analysis of genetic data released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The data comes from more than 800 samples co  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Sept. 20 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: A new study co-led by the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. Published in the journal Science, the study presents a curve of global mean surface temperature that reveals Earth's temperature has varied more than previously thought over much of the Phanerozoic Eon, a period   more