DECORAH, Iowa, March 5 -- Luther College issued the following news: Lydia X. Z. Brown, director of public policy at the National Disability Institute, will give the Price Distinguished Lecture in Women's Leadership at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, in the Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall. The event is co-sponsored by Minnesota Public Radio. Brown, a queer, disabled and East Asian advocate, organizer, attorney, strategist and writer, will give a lecture entitled "Until We Are All Free: Disab  more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, March 5 -- The Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus issued the following news on March 4, 2024: Today the Senate Transportation Committee plans to hear the Clean Transportation Standards bill. The bill gives MNDoT the authority to aggressively reduce carbon emissions through rules and regulations. Several groups representing agriculture, business, and labor interests are planning to oppose the bill in committee. "Clean Transportation Fuel Standards are a bad idea for Minneso  more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, March 5 (TNSres) -- The Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus issued the following statement on March 4, 2024, by State Sen. Julia Coleman, R-Waconia: * * * On Thursday, Feb. 29, Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) released its annual February revenue forecast (https://mn.gov/mmb/mmbhome/?id=611011), which provides an outlook for the state's financial picture. The forecast shows Democrat tax increases leading to a $3.7 billion surplus in 2025 and a $1.5 billion structural d  more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, March 4 -- The Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus issued the following statement on March 3, 2024 by state Sen. Rich Draheim, R- Madison Lake: * * * The office of Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB) today released its annual February economic forecast. The report, which details the state's budget picture, projects a surplus of $3.7 billion for 2025 after Democrats imposed $10 billion in tax increases during the 2023 session. However, Minnesota also faces a structural bud  more

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, March 5 -- Taft, a law firm, issued the following news: Taft partner Rick Kissel has been elected state chair for ACTEC Indiana. The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) is an organization of trust and estate lawyers and law professors in the United States and around the world. ACTEC's peer-elected Fellows are at the top of their profession, committed to maintaining excellence in the trust and estate legal field and to continually improving the practice   more

WHITE PLAINS, New York, March 4 -- Pace University Haub School of Law issued the following news on March 3, 2024: The Jeffrey G. Miller National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition (NELMCC), one of the nation's largest interschool moot court competitions, returned in person for the first time in four years, bringing together hundreds of law students and attorney judges to the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University's Westchester campus. Among a fierce lineup of competitors from 54   more