WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (TNStalk) -- The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence issued the following statement on Feb. 16, 2023: * * * Following the recent mass shooting at Michigan State University, lawmakers in the Michigan State Senate today introduced three gun safety bills that, if enacted, will address gun violence in all of its forms, by helping keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them, preventing tragedies before they happen, and promoting responsible gun ownership. T more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (TNStalk) -- The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence issued the following statement on Feb. 13, 2023: * * * According to media reports, on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, there is an ongoing active shooter situation at Michigan State University. * * * Kris Brown, president of Brady, released the following statement: "Just as we're recognizing the fifth anniversary of the deadliest high school shooting in history,  more PR

CANTON, Michigan, Feb. 18 (TNSgov) -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued the following news release on Feb. 17, 2023: The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI), a local chapter of the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on Michigan lawmakers to include explicit religious protections in Senate Bill 4. Proposed amendments to the Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act leave religious institutions vulnerable to expens more PR

DETROIT, Michigan, Feb. 15 (TNSpconf) -- The Detroit Regional Chamber issued the following news release: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said she is "proud" of her $79.4 billion fiscal year 2024 budget proposal during her annual keynote address at the 2023 State of the State Address to the Business Community, hosted by the Detroit Regional Chamber on Feb. 13 at MotorCity Casino Hotel. The Governor highlighted several key business-related measures within her budget proposal, ranging from education opport more PR

DETROIT, Michigan, Feb. 16 (TNSgov) -- The Detroit Regional Chamber issued the following news release: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer presented her $79.4 billion fiscal year 2024 budget recommendations on Feb. 8, which contained a host of bipartisan interests and represented many of the Detroit Regional Chamber's legislative priorities. The Chamber looks forward to bipartisan cooperation in the state Legislature as it reviews the Governor's proposals and puts forth its own. Michigan needs to continue i more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Feb. 15 (TNStalk) -- The Michigan Health and Hospital Association issued the following statement on Feb. 14, 2023 by CEO Brian Peters: * * * The following statement can be attributed to Brian Peters, CEO of the Michigan Health & Hospital Association. "Words can't express the sadness and concern we feel this morning for the victims from the shooting last night on the Michigan State University campus. Our hearts break for the families of the victims and we have in our thought more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Feb. 17 (TNStalk)(TNSres) -- The Michigan League for Public Policy issued the following statement on Feb. 16, 2023: * * * Boosting EITC to 30% of federal credit means nearly 730,000 households, 1 million children will see big relief at tax time * * * The Michigan League for Public Policy issued the following statement on the Michigan Senate's passage of House Bill 4001, which includes legislation that will increase the state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) from 6% to 30% o more PR

MOUNT PLEASANT, Michigan, Feb. 10 -- The Michigan Nurses Association issued the following news release: Nurses at McLaren Central reached a tentative agreement for a new three-year contract with the hospital's administration late this evening. Nurses had previously voted to give their bargaining team the ability to call for a strike if necessary. The tentative agreement protects nurses' limits to mandatory overtime, improves wages, and expands the ways in which nurses can express concerns aroun more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Feb. 15 (TNStalk) -- The Michigan Nurses Association issued the following statement on Feb. 14, 2023: * * * In response to last night's tragedy, Kevin Glaza, a pharmacist at Sparrow Hospital, member of the local MNA union's elected leadership, and MSU dad, provided the following statement on behalf of the Michigan Nurses Association. "Last night, a horrific act of gun violence shattered our community. Nurses and healthcare professionals rushed to Sparrow to assist in the ca more PR

BELLEVUE, Washington, Feb. 15 (TNStalk) -- MomsRising, an online and on-the-ground organization of more than 1 million mothers and their families, issued the following statement on Feb. 14, 2023: * * * Statement of Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Executive Director and CEO of MomsRising, the online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on the mass shooting at Michigan State University last night. "Another school. Another community. Another tragedy that f more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (TNStalk) -- The NAACP issued the following statement on Feb. 14, 2023, by President and CEO Derrick Johnson: * * * On the eve of the fifth commemoration of the mass shooting that took 17 lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a shooter opened fire at the Michigan State University campus, killing three students and critically wounding five others. NAACP President & CEO Derrick Johnson released the following statement in reaction to this latest  more PR

NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (TNStalk) -- The National Urban League issued the following statement on Feb. 15, 2023: * * * Marc H. Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League, Charles Anderson, President and CEO of the Urban League of Detroit and South Michigan, Kyra Wallace, President and CEO of the Southwestern Michigan Urban League, and Eric Brown, President and CEO of the Urban League of West Michigan made the following statement in response to the tragic mass shooting that took place at M more PR

LANSING, Michigan, Feb. 16 -- Progress Michigan, an organization that says it holds public officials and government accountable and assist in the promotion of progressive ideas, issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2023: Progress Michigan filed a Freedom of Information Act request to learn more about what might have been happening behind closed doors in the weeks before Ottawa Impact commissioners were officially sworn in. The organization published the responsive documents to that req more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Feb. 16 (TNSper) -- NSF International issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2023: Pedro Sancha, President, CEO and Director of NSF, has joined the University of Michigan School of Public Health's Dean's Advisory Board. The Dean's Advisory Board is made up of Michigan Public Health alumni and other public health and industry leaders who support the school's mission and provide advice and counsel to the dean. Among other things, the volunteer board members serve the  more PR

DETROIT, Michigan, Feb. 17 (TNSfgov) -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued the following news release: PETA has sent more than 200 fur coats--all donated by people who experienced a change of heart about wearing fur--to aid the relief efforts in Syria and Turkey by locally based Life for Relief and Development, which will coordinate their distribution to victims of the devastating earthquake, many of whom are without electricity, shelter, or other necessities, so that they can k more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (TNSgov) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2023: Sens. Alex Padilla and Susan Collins reintroduced the Outdoors for All Act in Congress. The act, if passed, would codify the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership (ORLP) program, a National Park Service grant program aimed at helping economically disadvantaged communities with little to no access to public outdoor recreation spaces. It has funded dozens of projects, including the Belle Isle Park  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (TNStalk) - The U.S. Conference of Mayors issued the following statement on Feb. 14, 2023: * * * Below is a statement by Tom Cochran, CEO and Executive Director of The U.S. Conference of Mayors, on the mass shooting at Michigan State University. "America's mayors mourn the tragedy that occurred at Michigan State University last night that took the lives of three students, irrevocably altered those of five other students and affected the entire Michigan State and East Lansi more PR

ADRIAN, Michigan, Feb. 16 (TNStalk) -- Adrian Dominican Sisters issued the following statement on Feb. 15, 2023: * * * The following statement in response to the tragic gun violence at Michigan State University has been issued by the General Council of the Adrian Dominican Congregation on behalf of all Adrian Dominican Sisters. The anguish of another devastating act of gun violence in our nation is even more acute when it happens in one's own home state at a university attended by members of  more PR

NEW YORK, Feb. 16 -- The Rockefeller Foundation issued the following news release on Feb. 15, 2023: The Rockefeller Foundation announced today that it has reached an agreement to extend Project Access Covid Tests (Project ACT), a program delivering free at-home Covid-19 tests to at-risk communities, for four more months to meet the states' ongoing testing demand. Funding commitments for Project ACT since its launch last year now total $33.2 million from Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, and Ne more PR