WASHINGTON, April 10 (TNSres) -- The American Action Forum issued the following commentary: * * * The Economics of Renewable Energy: An Offshore Wind Case Study By Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Dan Goldbeck * * * Executive Summary * Even as the Biden Administration continues to place climate change policies at the top of its agenda, restrictive federal, state, and local policies threaten the viability of some renewable energy projects; offshore wind (OSW) is one example. * Permitting inefficie  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 11 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Mid-Atlantic Regional Information Office issued the following report on April 10, 2024, entitled "Consumer Price Index, Northeast Region - March 2024": * * * Area prices were up 0.7 percent over the past month, up 3.4 percent from a year ago. * * * Prices in the Northeast Region, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), were up 0.7 percent in March, the  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: BOSTON -- Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested a Salvadoran national charged locally with assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest, and assault and battery on a family or household member. Deportation officers with ERO Boston apprehended the 27-year-old noncitizen March 28 near his residence in Chelsea. He is a documented   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 11 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release: The owner of Stash's Pizza, who is currently facing alleged federal forced labor charges, has been indicted by a grand jury in Boston for allegedly submitting false information to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to obtain a loan on behalf of a business he no longer owned. Stavros Papantoniadis, a/k/a "Steve Papantoniadis," 49, of Westwood, was in  more

WESTBOROUGH, Massachusetts, April 11 -- The New England First Amendment Coalition issued the following news release: The New England First Amendment Coalition joined a group of New Hampshire open government advocates to support the most recent proposal to change the state's public records fee structure. HB 1002 originally allowed agencies to charge record requesters up to $25 an hour for any time searching, retrieving, duplicating, redacting or otherwise making records available beyond 10 hour  more

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, April 11 -- The New England Journal of Medicine, a peer-reviewed medical journal from the Massachusetts Medical Society that says it delivers research and interactive clinical content to physicians, educators and the global medical community, published research articles on the following topics in its April 11, 2024, edition (Vol. 390, No. 14): Perspective: * Back to the Future in Alabama * The End of B/Yamagata Influenza Transmission -- Transitioning from Quadrivalent  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release: Last night, Rep. Joe Courtney (CT-02), a senior member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, voted to pass the A Stronger Workforce for America Act which makes critical improvements to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). The bill passed the House by 376-26. WIOA is the federal program that funds the Eastern Workforce Investment Board (EWIB) and its successful Manufact  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Boston, MA - U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), and members of the Massachusetts delegation celebrate the announcement that General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport in Boston will receive $22.1 million in federal funding for infrastructure improvements. These projects are funded under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Airport Infrastructure Grants (AIG  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Recently, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) celebrated the passage of the FY2024 funding package that includes $13 million for 15 local community projects in the Fifth District. These projects were selected in collaboration with state and local leaders. " These 13 projects will touch so many lives in our community," said Democratic Whip Clark. "This federal funding will help clean our air an  more