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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Georgia Newsletter for Wednesday March 05, 2025 ( 4 items )  

Amid Legal Troubles, Monkey-Breeding Facility Backers Expand Operations
WASHINGTON, March 3 -- The Animal Welfare Institute issued the following news release: * * * The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is deeply concerned by the recent announcement that Safer Human Medicine (SHM)--the company behind a massive monkey-breeding facility planned in Georgia--has acquired a facility in Florida to hold non-human primates slated for biomedical research. The 70-acre facility in LaBelle, Florida, will help SHM "accelerate its holding and quarantine operations for non-human p  more

Fort Moore Renamed Fort Benning for WWI Infantryman
ARLINGTON, Virginia, March 4 [Category: National Defense] -- The Association of the U.S. Army posted the following news: * * * Fort Moore Renamed Fort Benning for WWI Infantryman Fort Moore, Georgia, will be renamed Fort Benning in honor of Cpl. Fred Benning, who received the Distinguished Service Cross for his heroic actions during World War I. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the immediate change in a March 3 memo to honor Benning and "in recognition of the installation's storied h  more

Human rights? We Don't Care, China Tells Georgia
WASHINGTON, March 4 [Category: Political] -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following news: * * * Human rights? We Don't Care, China Tells Georgia If you want to understand Georgia's future as the West loses influence (and interest), then consider the relationship it's developing with China. After the Georgian Dream government banned protesters angered by its alleged election tempering from wearing facemasks, it monitored them using advanced surveillance cameras made in   more

MSTC 2025 to Spotlight Strategies for Bringing MEMS and Sensors Advancements to Market
MILPITAS, California, March 4 -- SEMI, an association serving the manufacturing supply chain for the electronics industry, issued the following news release: * * * MSTC 2025 to Spotlight Strategies for Bringing MEMS and Sensors Advancements to Market MILPITAS, Calif. - March 3, 2025 - MEMS and Sensors Technical Congress (MSTC) 2025, the premier technical event on designing, building, and using sensors, will gather industry leaders from across the MEMS and sensors supply chain from March 26-27  more