LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Aug. 16 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on Aug. 15, 2023, and a letter: * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement after joining a coalition of 24 states to push back against the U.S. Department of Education's threat to withhold funding from schools that offer archery, hunting and firearm safety courses: "Hunting and other outdoor shooting sports play an important role in Arkansas culture and life. Further,  more PR

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Aug. 16 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on Aug. 15, 2023: * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin today led a coalition of eight state attorneys general in sending a letter urging leaders in the United States Congress to support legislation to protect investors' privacy and issued the following statement: "We are urging Senate and House leadership to support S. 2230/H.R. 4551, the Protecting Investors' Personally Identifiable Informati more PR

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Aug. 15 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on Aug. 14, 2023: * * * Following a show cause hearing held today where the three companies behind the Big Country Chateau apartments were found in contempt, Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement: "The owners of Big Country Chateau continue to demonstrate a consistent and willful disregard for the court and its authority throughout this litigation. They have refused to  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following In Focus white paper (No. IF12474) on the UPS-Teamsters labor dispute and Taft-Hartley's national emergency provisions on Aug. 16, 2023, by legislative attorneys Madeline W. Donley and Jon O. Shimabukuro. Here are excerpts: * * * The UPS-Teamsters Labor Dispute and Taft-Hartley's National Emergency Provisions Introduction On July 25, 2023, the United Parcel Service (UPS) and the International Brotherhood of Teams more PR

NEW YORK, Aug. 15 -- Fox News Media, a business unit of Fox, issued the following news release on Aug. 14, 2023: FOX News Audio will debut a new weekly podcast hosted by America's Newsroom co-anchor and co-host of The Five Dana Perino on August 21st. Perino on Politics will take listeners on the road to the 2024 election and beyond beginning the week of the first Republican Presidential Debate, which will air Wednesday, August 23rd live on FOX News Channel. Each week, Perino will cut through t more PR

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Aug. 18 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following news release on Aug. 17, 2023: Attorney General Tim Griffin today made the following announcement about public access to the Office of the Attorney General: "Like many government buildings around the world at the dawn of the pandemic, the Office of the Attorney General closed its public access in March of 2020. Upon taking office in January of this year, the Office of the Attorney General remained clos more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release on Aug. 15, 2023: Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the HELP Committee, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today wrote to Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona urging him to use the Department's advisory and investigatory authority to even the playing field for  more PR

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 16 -- Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, issued the following news release: Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Jay S. Zeidman to the Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission for a term set to expire on February 1, 2029. The Advisory Commission conducts studies on antisemitism in the state, provides assistance to schools, and meets with appropriate representatives of public and private organizations to provide information in addition to various education duties more PR