SACRAMENTO, California, March 16 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on March 15, 2024: Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration, today reminded small nonfarm businesses in 35 Iowa counties and neighboring counties in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin of the April 15, 2024, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low interest loan  more

DOVER, Delaware, March 15 -- Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings issued the following statement on March 14, 2024: * * * Attorney General Kathy Jennings today released the following statement regarding the Senate's overwhelming passage of Senate Bill 2, legislation requiring training and a permit to purchase a handgun. The Senate's vote sends the legislation to Gov. John Carney's desk. For five years, all of us -- not only me, but the bill sponsors, the advocates, and voters -- have been  more

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, March 16 -- The Indiana Senate Republicans issued the following statement on March 15, 2024, by State Sen. Scott Alexander, R-Muncie, in response to the severe weather damage in Senate District 26: * * * "After seeing firsthand the amount of destruction the severe weather and tornadoes caused, I want to commend our local emergency service personnel for their quick and efficient response. It is thanks to them no lives were lost last night. "I visited Selma and other area  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 16 -- The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs issued the following news release on March 15, 2024: The Healey-Driscoll Administration today announced the establishment of the Office of the Energy Transformation (OET) and the appointment of Melissa Lavinson as its Executive Director. The Office will be housed within the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs and is charged with the hands-on execution of the clean energy tr  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- President Biden, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Ireland Taoiseach Leo Varadkar issued the following remarks on March 15, 2024, at the Annual Friends of Ireland Luncheon: * * * SPEAKER JOHNSON: Well, thank -- thank you all. I know it's been a great time of fellowship and enjoyment. It's been very loud in here. That's a good sign. That's a good sign. Not great acoustics, but great fellowship. This lunch is a special event, as we noted earlier because it's a time when we   more