HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 25 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong today joined a bipartisan coalition of 31 states and territories in urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to halt the surge of youth nicotine addiction by enacting restrictions on tobacco products that disproportionately harm youth. Specifically, the bipartisan coalition is calling on the FDA to use its regulatory power to eliminate youth-app more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 28 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Aug. 27, 2021: Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 20 attorneys general in filing a brief in support of the constitutionality of Virginia's anti-discrimination law. The amicus brief was filed today with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in the case of Updegrove v. Herring. Specifically, the plaintiffs, Robert Updegrove and Loudoun Multi-Images LL more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 26 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release on Aug. 25, 2021: Attorney General William Tong today joined a coalition of 23 states in urging the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to reinstate a rule on disparate impact liability that would protect people from housing discrimination. "Housing discrimination doesn't just impact where a family lives -- it can affect educational opportunities, employment opportun more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 24 -- Connecticut Attorney General William Tong issued the following news release: Attorney General William Tong has joined a multi-state coalition in submitting a comment to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) that encourages the ATF to finalize regulations that would make clear that ghost guns are firearms under federal law. By finalizing regulations, the ATF would dramatically reduce the availability of untraceable guns and would take a  more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 25 -- The Connecticut Democratic Party issued the following statement on Aug. 25, 2021: * * * Statement from Democratic State Chair Nancy DiNardo on anti-mask protests. "The Connecticut Republicans like to say they are past the extremism of the Trump era. But mask protests like today's in Cheshire are happening across the state. "Disagreeing on policy is part of our process. But this behavior, and similar protests at recent Board of Education meetings in Bristol a more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 24 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont and Connecticut Department of Public Health Acting Commissioner Dr. Deidre Gifford today released the following statements in response to the full approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Governor Lamont said, "This is an important moment for our fight against the coronavirus as schools are set to return and more companies ar more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 23 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that President Joe Biden has approved his request for Connecticut to receive a presidential pre-landfall emergency declaration in advance of Tropical Storm Henri impacting the state. The declaration means that the federal government will provide the state with assistance in anticipation of the storm's impact. Officials from the Federal Emergency Management Ag more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 27 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Aug. 25, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the Connecticut Department of Labor and Hartford Athletic are teaming up to host the first annual Veterans and Diversity Hiring Expo at Dillon Stadium in Hartford on Tuesday, September 7, 2021 from 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The event is free to attend and participants are encouraged to register online at HartfordAthletic.com/Expo. The hirin more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 17 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that thousands of low-to-moderate income working individuals and families in Connecticut will see a significantly larger state tax refund as the Connecticut Earned Income Tax Credit is scheduled to increase from its most recent rate of 23% of the federal credit to 30.5% this year. The rate increase was included as part of the fiscal year 2022-2023 biennial st more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 28 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Aug. 27, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the U.S. Department of Education has approved his administration's plan for use of the $110 million the State of Connecticut is receiving from the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund. The funding was approved by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden earlier this yea more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 27 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Aug. 25, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is appointing Ginne-Rae Clay of Waterbury to serve as interim executive director of the Social Equity Council. The council was created this summer by the enactment of a new state law legalizing and safely regulating the adult-use of cannabis in Connecticut. Under that law, the governor is required to appoint an interim executive direc more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 27 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on Aug. 25, 2021: Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is appointing Marilyn Alverio to serve as a member of the Social Equity Council. The council was created this summer by the enactment of a new state law legalizing and safely regulating the adult-use of cannabis in Connecticut. Alverio is the founder and creator of Latinas & Power Symposium, which was established in 2004 as a professi more PR

HARTFORD, Connecticut, Aug. 27 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Governor Ned Lamont, Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, and the UConn School of Business today announced that Connecticut has been awarded a five-year, $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) to operate a national MBDA Advanced Manufacturing Center. Participating businesses will work with the UConn School of more PR

NEW YORK, Aug. 23 -- Hearst issued the following news release: Nickolas "Nick" Davatzes, CEO emeritus of A+E Networks who helped create two of the leading cable television networks, A&E and The HISTORY Channel, passed away today at his home in Wilton, Connecticut. He was 79. Davatzes, a pioneer in the cable television industry, served as president and chief executive officer of A+E from December 1983 to April 2005. A+E Networks, a joint venture with Hearst and Disney-ABC Television Group, a un more PR

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Aug. 24 -- Gov. Tom Wolf, D-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: Governor Tom Wolf today announced that 16 members of Pennsylvania-Task Force 1 (PA-TF1) have arrived in Connecticut to assist with Tropical Storm Henri water rescue efforts in New England. "I'm proud that Pennsylvanians have stepped up to assist with any water rescue efforts due to Tropical Storm Henri," Gov. Wolf said. "Water rescues are dangerous so I'm grateful to these volunteers for an more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 27 -- Yale School of Medicine issued the following news: Cedarhurst School is a therapeutic middle and senior high school in Hamden that has been affiliated with the Yale Department of Psychiatry for 60 years. It provides special education and transitional services for adolescents and young adults with mental health and behavioral conditions. On July 1, Kitty Clemens became the new director of the school. A graduate of Barnard College and the Smith College School o more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 27 (TNSOps) -- Yale University issued the following news release: The National University of Singapore (NUS) today announced it will establish a provisionally named "New College" that in 2025 will merge Yale-NUS College with NUS's University Scholars Programme, a popular interdisciplinary initiative within NUS. This is part of a larger reorganization of NUS's academic offerings. The aim of this change is to provide a greater number of Singaporean students access to more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 26 (TNSRes) -- Yale University issued the following news release: Many public health experts feared the COVID-19 pandemic would cause an increase in suicidal behavior among U.S. military veterans, a group that already has high rates of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder and which experienced a 30% surge in suicides between 2010 and 2018. New evidence, however, suggests that during the first eight months of the pandemic that did not happen. According to a  more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 26 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news release: Tyrannosaurus rex, the fearsome predator that once roamed what is now western North America, appears to have had an East Coast cousin. A new study by Yale undergraduate Chase Doran Brownstein describes two dinosaurs that inhabited Appalachia -- a once isolated land mass that today composes much of the eastern United States -- about 85 million years ago: an herbivorous duck-billed hadrosaur and a carn more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 26 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news release: When patients exhibit stroke symptoms, doctors must quickly make a life or death determination: Are their symptoms caused by a clot that can be treated with blood thinners or by bleeding in the brain, which may require surgery? A new Yale-led study shows that a portable MRI device can help identify such intracranial hemorrhages, potentially life-saving information particularly in areas or scenarios wh more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 24 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news release: Older people living in less advantaged neighborhoods become disabled roughly two years earlier than their counterparts in more affluent neighborhoods, according to a new Yale study. The findings, published Aug. 23 in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, shed new light on the role environment plays in the disabling process. The data also point to a tangible effect of structural racism on the lives of o more PR