DES MOINES, Iowa, Nov. 19 (TNSres) -- The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship issued the following news: Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig commented on the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. The report is released weekly April through November. Additionally, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship provides a weather summary each week during this time. "Even as harvest winds down across the  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- AmeriCorps issued the following news release: * * * Volunteering and Civic Life in America research shows a resurgence in community engagement and new insights about virtual volunteering * * * AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism, released the latest Volunteering and Civic Life in America (https://www.americorps.gov/newsroom/news/via) research, a comprehensive look at how people make a difference in their communities and promote  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Nov. 20 -- Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2024: Attorney General Hilgers filed an antitrust lawsuit against some of the nation's largest heavy-duty truck manufacturers for an alleged plot to stifle the availability of internal-combustion semi-trucks in favor of electric ones. California has imposed a series of regulations designed to essentially eliminate semi-trucks with internal combustion engines. Other states have adop  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Nov. 20 -- Gov. Jim Pillen, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: Governor Jim Pillen has announced his appointment of Drew Gonshorowski as director of Medicaid and Long-Term Care (MLTC) for the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Gonshorowski will assume his duties on December 9, at a salary of $185,000 a year. For the past 12 years, Gonshorowski has served as a policy analyst, most recently as senior research fellow for Paragon Health Institute and bef  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, Nov. 20 -- Gov. Jim Pillen, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: Governor Jim Pillen and a delegation of agency, agriculture, manufacturing, military and university representatives completed a trade mission to the Czech Republic and Germany, two countries with which Nebraska boasts significant and positive ties. Final days in Germany included meetings with Bayer and Evonik, two companies with facilities in Nebraska. The group also took part in a meet-and-greet rece  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Nov. 20 -- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2024: Attorney General Gentner Drummond is challenging the Biden Administration's unlawful and sweeping regulations of cryptocurrency with a lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Drummond and a coalition of 17 other state attorneys general filed the litigation last week in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. Recent   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following news release: Representatives from nearly 50 U.S. agribusinesses and trade groups and 14 state departments of agriculture will travel to Casablanca, Morocco, Dec. 2-5, as part of a U.S. Department of Agriculture trade mission to expand U.S. farm and food exports to Morocco and other West African markets. "This mission offers a crucial opportunity for U.S. agribusinesses to enter into M  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Nov. 20 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following news on Nov. 19, 2024: Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes, the outgoing chairman of the national Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), helped rally and lead a coalition of 18 states to challenge the Securities Exchange Commission's (SEC) attempt to exclusively regulate most cryptocurrencies with enforcement policies that may contradict state crypto statutes. General Reyes and the coalition of   more