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Internet Association Opens Texas Office And Hires State Government Affairs Southern Region Director

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This expansion is a significant addition to IA’s 50-state government affairs program and existing offices in California, Illinois, Washington State, and New York. The websites, apps, and services powered by IA’s members have an enormous positive benefit for all Americans, and the southern U.S.

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Hospital Association Uses Grant to Build Opioid-Fighting Tactics

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Kasich, working with West Virginia University President Gordon Gee, is launching a new group called Citizens for Effective Opioid Treatment, which will help direct any settlements related to opioid treatments to hospitals, rather than state or local governments. HAP is part of a $50 million initiative by Bloomberg.

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Making Introductions: Landmen Group Launches “Meet Us” Campaign

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The group focused its efforts on markets near major shale plays like Marcellus (New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia), New Albany (Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky), and Haynesville-Bossier (Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas), among others. The early results are impressive: The campaign received over 7.3

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The Nonprofits That Caught Volkswagen Red-Handed

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We call it the tip of the iceberg,” T&E Director Jos Dings told the New York Times. “We BMWs and vehicles from General Motors’ Opel, among others, also showed marked differences between testing done in the lab and emissions released when the cars are on the road, according to tests performed by ICCT. “We

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Hawaii’s Optics Problem: A Travel Hotspot Struggles With Meetings Business

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Instead, the group chose a more-landlocked venue: West Virginia. It is patently unfair,” he told Stateline , a news service of the Pew Charitable Trusts. That concern recently led the National Governors Association (NGA) to decide against holding its 2015 conference in the state. Hawaii Gov.

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New Fronts in Soda Wars Keep Beverage Association Busy

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ABA has argued that taxes have proved ineffective at stopping obesity in states where such taxes exist, including Alabama and West Virginia, which rank among the states with the highest obesity rates. The post New Fronts in Soda Wars Keep Beverage Association Busy appeared first on Associations Now.'

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Dog Days of Summer: 5 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Hot Dogs

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The history of the hot dog and the history of New York’s Coney Island are intertwined to such a point that the hot dog played a major role in the boardwalk’s growth. And other locales, such as West Virginia and Seattle , have their own takes on the handheld meal. The Coney Island Shuffle. NYC vs. Chicago.