HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 18 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Aug. 17, 2021: Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 15 attorneys general, led by California, in an amicus brief in Corbitt v. Taylor in defense of the right of transgender Alabamians to obtain driver's licenses that correspond with their gender identity. Under Alabama's Policy Order 63, transgender Alabamians are unable to access driver's licenses that accurately more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 19 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong and the Office of Consumer Counsel (OCC) today filed a petition with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) calling for an investigation into Eversource's marketing tactics. The petition, filed Wednesday evening, comes after media reports that Eversource was using high pressure and time sensitive tactics to entice customers in the South Windsor  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 16 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Aug. 14, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that at the advice of Connecticut Department of Public Health Acting Commissioner Dr. Deidre Gifford, he is directing Connecticut's COVID-19 vaccine program to implement the recommendations released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday regarding the administration of third doses of COVID-19 vaccines to individuals  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 20 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Aug. 19, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he has issued an executive order related to the COVID-19 emergency declarations (Executive Order No. 13D) requiring that all Connecticut state employees and staff of all childcare facilities and preK-12 schools statewide must have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by September 27, 2021. Those who do not get vaccinated due t more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 20 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Aug. 19, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he has issued an executive order related to the COVID-19 emergency declarations (Executive Order No. 13C) that permits patients, their doctors, and local health directors to access digital records related to their individual COVID-19 vaccination history from Connecticut's immunization information system. The order means that patients and more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 20 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Aug. 19, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is nominating Charlene M. Russell-Tucker to serve as commissioner of the Connecticut State Department of Education. The nomination follows a unanimous vote earlier in the day by the State Board of Education recommending her appointment to the governor under a process required by state statute. Russell-Tucker has been serving at the St more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 20 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont today held a bill signing ceremony to commemorate the adoption of legislation establishing the Connecticut Higher Education Supplemental Loan Authority (CHESLA) Alliance District Teacher Loan Subsidy Program, which will provide an interest rate subsidy on CHESLA loans to teachers who commit to teaching in one of Connecticut's 33 highest need school districts. The loan subsid more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 17 -- Connecticut State Colleges and Universities issued the following news release: Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) President Terrence Cheng today announced the launch of the Student Support Program, an initiative aimed at providing sustained payments to community college students throughout the academic year. Funded through the American Rescue Plan, the federal stimulus package signed by President Biden in March, the program seeks to provide stud more PR

TEMPE, Arizona, Aug. 19 (TNSPar) -- Arizona State University issued the following news: The Poynter Institute's PolitiFact will move its offices to Arizona State University's location in the heart of Washington, D.C., in a unique collaboration that will expand training in fact-checking journalism, create a new website to fact-check Arizona politicians and grow Poynter's teaching footprint in the nation's capital. The Pulitzer Prize-winning digital fact-checking organization has long been ratin more PR

TAMPA, Florida, Aug. 20 -- Tampa International Airport issued the following news release: Tampa International Airport on Thursday announced the addition of a brand new airline and a never-before-served route to New Haven, Connecticut. Starting Nov. 8, TPA's first and only nonstop to New Haven will launch on Avelo Airlines, a carrier that debuted in the skies in April. The nonstop service to Tweed New Haven Airport (HVN) begins with fares starting as low as $59. The airline, known to "inspire  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 20 (TNSOps) -- Trinity College issued the following news: In his junior year at Trinity College, Weyessa "Ace" McAlister '20 founded H2OPE, a student organization dedicated to providing clean water to rural villages in Ethiopia, where he grew up. "My idea for this project began back in high school, with me asking myself, what can I do for my community?" McAlister said. "I lost family members to waterborne illness when I was young. I know what it's like and I want to  more PR

MORGANTOWN, West Virginia, Aug. 19 (TNSJou) -- West Virginia University issued the following news on August 18, 2021: As they settle into a new school year, student-athletes don't just have to protect themselves from COVID-19. They also have to protect themselves from the heat, cardiac arrests, traumatic brain injuries and several other catastrophic injuries. West Virginia University researcher Samantha Scarneo-Miller and her colleagues at the University of Connecticut investigated the policie more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 18 (TNSJou) -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: There has been little to no progress in eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in some key health indicators over the past two decades, according to a Yale study. Using data collected by the National Health Interview Survey from 1999 to 2018, researchers found that the proportion of people who reported having poor or fair health did not change significantly in 20 years, regardless of their race or more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 19 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news release: Video images capture for the first time in live animals the inexorable spread of the COVID-19 virus, tracking the infection as it moved from the noses of mice to the lungs and other organs over the course of six days, in a new study led by researchers at Yale and Universite de Montreal. While the images record the sometimes deadly march of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, they also show ho more PR