PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, June 13 -- Ballard Spahr, a law firm, issued the following news release: The Minnesota Bar State Association (MSBA) has released its honor roll of attorneys who contributed 50 or more hours of pro bono services last year, including 20 lawyers from Ballard Spahr's Minneapolis office. The MSBA publishes its annual list of North Star Lawyers honoring attorneys who provided at least 50 hours of pro bono legal services during the year to low-income people. Honorees for 2 more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, June 14 -- CenterPoint Energy issued the following news release: This year, CenterPoint Energy's Community Safety Grant program awarded more than 90 grants totaling nearly $230,000 in Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio and Texas to fund safety-related equipment and projects in local communities. "At CenterPoint Energy, safety is one of our core values and influences every decision we make as we provide safe and reliable energy solutions for the customers and commu more PR

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, June 14 -- Faegre Drinker, a law firm, issued the following news release: A Faegre Drinker team, led by corporate partner Michael Abbott, is advising Homesteaders Life Company in a $1.2 billion transaction involving Park Lawn Corporation, Canada's largest publicly traded funeral, cremation and cemetery provider with properties in Canada and the United States. As part of the transaction, Homesteaders is part of the purchaser group that will acquire all of the issued and  more PR

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, June 14 -- Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minnesota, issued the following news release: Governor Tim Walz today announced Minnesota has secured funding that will finance Bioforge Marshall LLC, a 500,000-square-foot biomanufacturing facility in Marshall, Minnesota. The plant, owned by Solugen, a climate technology company focused on minimizing carbon emissions, will utilize Minnesota grown corn to manufacture chemicals usually made from oil, resulting in significantly lower carbon emissio more PR

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, June 14 (TNSres) -- The Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus issued the following news: In response to the recent report of alarming misuse of taxpayer funds by the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), Senator Michael Kreun (R- Blaine) criticized MDE for its failure to protect taxpayers. "Minnesotans have been stunned already at the scale of fraud in the Feeding Our Future case working through the federal court system, but today's report from the Office of the Legislativ more PR

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, June 13 (TNSres) -- The Minnesota Department of Health issued the following news release: The state's first comprehensive scan of school nurses shows many schools, particularly those with more low-income families, lack access to a school nurse. The Minnesota School Nurse Workforce: A 2022 Snapshot report focused on the school nurse workforce in 2022 in response to the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on the health and well-being of students, families, school nurses and ed more PR

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, June 14 (TNSres) -- The Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus posted the following statement on June 13, 2024, from State Sen. Steve Drazkowski, R-Mazeppa: * * * Minnesota State Senator Steve Drazkowski (R-Mazeppa) today issued this statement following the release of a scathing audit of Minnesota's Department of Education (MDE) and the Feeding our Future fraud scandal. "Today's Feeding Our Future audit confirms, again, the Walz administration's complete and utter failure to  more PR

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, June 14 (TNSres) -- The Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus issued the following news on June 13, 2024: Today Senate Republicans held a press conference to respond a devastating report from the nonpartisan Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA) reviewing Minnesota Department of Education's (MDE) oversight of the nonprofit Feeding our Future. The report found MDE's oversight of Feeding Our Future to be inadequate and that, "MDE's actions and inactions created opportunities f more PR

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, June 14 (TNSres) -- The Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus issued the following news: A new report from Minnesota's Legislative Auditor has uncovered yet another example of significant fraud and mismanagement in a state's COVID-19 pandemic program. The audit of the Frontline Worker Pay program found that lax eligibility verification allowed rampant fraud, with an estimated 41% of payments going to ineligible applicants. Fraudsters exploited the program's flaws, submitting  more PR

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, June 13 (TNSres) -- The University of Minnesota School of Public Health issued the following news release: University of Minnesota School of Public Health Assistant Professor Manka Nkimbeng has been named a 2024 Bush Foundation Fellow The Bush Fellowship program supports accomplished leaders with extraordinary track records who are ready to take their efforts to the next level to create greater impact within and across communities. Every year, the Bush Foundation select more PR

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, June 14 -- Taft, a law firm, issued the following news: Taft partner Rob Bilott was mentioned and quoted in recent articles on PFAS dangers: * "PFAS: Arkema has known the dangerousness of its products for more than twenty years," Mediacites. (Subscription Required) * "Permanent compounds hidden in the blood of ordinary people, and the truth that has been "covered up" by chemical giants for decades,"careerengine.us. * "PFAS INVESTIGATION 1/3: "Eternal pollutants", a le more PR

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, June 14 -- The University of Minnesota issued the following news release: University of Minnesota researchers have successfully mapped the complete genome of the endangered Przewalski's horse. Once extinct in the wild, the species now has a population of around 2,000 animals thanks to conservation efforts. The study, published in the journal G3, was led by Nicole Flack and Lauren Hughes, researchers at the College of Veterinary Medicine, along with Christopher Faulk, a  more PR

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, June 14 -- The University of Minnesota issued the following news release: For the third year in a row, the University of Minnesota participated in the Times Higher Ed (THE) Impact Rankings. The 2024 rankings evaluated 2,152 universities from 125 countries/regions, comparing their efforts to conduct teaching, research, outreach and stewardship that support a more sustainable, equitable and healthy future. The U of M tied for fifth in the U.S. overall and in the top 10% w more PR