WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 -- District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine issued the following news release on Dec. 19, 2022: Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced that the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has reached a first-of-its-kind settlement that will stop the planned displacement of long-time District residents and preserve affordable housing at a Ward 5 property for 25 years. This settlement resolves a lawsuit OAG filed in early 2022 to protect tenants at the rent-stab more PR

WILMINGTON, Delaware, Dec. 20 -- Gov. John C. Carney, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: Governor John Carney was elected National President of The Council of State Governments (CSG) during the organization's national conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, last week. His one-year term as CSG National President will begin on January 1, 2023. CSG is a national, nonpartisan association of all elected and appointed state officials from all three branches of state government. Governor Carney s more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 19 -- Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke supports the release of state Grant-in-Aid (GIA) funds to local organizations. The release of the GIAs was announced at a press conference held by Gov. Josh Green on Monday. Among the list of awardees, $1.6 million will be distributed to the Institute for Human Services (IHS) to launch a homeless triage center on Oahu. "The release of the state GIA funding will support non-prof more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 19 -- Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke expresses strong support of a federal broadband grant awarded to the Department of Hawaiian Homelands (DHHL) by the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program, a part of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The release of the initial funding was announced Monday at a Hawaiian Homes Commission meeting and will be used for the adoption of broadband internet se more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 20 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet with a decaying orbit around a star that resembles a future version of our Sun. The doomed world is destined to spiral closer and closer to its maturing star until they collide and the planet is obliterated. The planet, Kepler-1658b, with a mass and size similar to that of Jupiter, is familiar to University of Hawaii astronomers, who discov more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 21 (TNSjou) -- The University of Hawaii Cancer Center issued the following news on Dec. 20, 2022: In the U.S., over eight and a half percent of cancer patients die from sepsis, a life-threatening immune response to an infection, each year. In Hawaii, Native Hawaiian cancer patients have a two-fold increased risk of dying from sepsis compared to other ethnicities. University of Hawaii Cancer Center researchers recently co-authored a study that aimed to determine the role o more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 22 (TNSjou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release on Dec. 21, 2022: In Hawaii, Native Hawaiian cancer patients have a two-fold increased risk of dying from sepsis, a life-threatening immune response to an infection, compared to other ethnicities, according to a new study co-authored by University of Hawaii Cancer Center researchers. The study aimed to determine the role of genetics in the survival of colorectal cancer patients with sepsis, and was  more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 16 (TNSrpt) -- The University of Hawaii posted the following news release: The global outlook continues to darken, but prospects for Hawaii remain largely unchanged from the last report on September 23, according to a new economic forecast from the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization (UHERO). Rising interest rates, dwindling pandemic era savings and the coming U.S. downturn will cause a pause in growth next year. But the belated recovery of the Japanese vi more PR