Gov. Ron DeSantis is planning to hold a news conference Tuesday morning in Central Florida. The governor is planning to speak around 10:45 a.m. at Blue Spring State Park, west of Orange City. DeSantis will be joined by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Executive Director Roger Young and Florida Department of Environmental Protection Secretary […]
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Three from Idaho County eye national conference
Feb. 6—GRANGEVILLE — Three elected officials from Idaho County will head to Washington, D.C., this week to represent the Idaho Association of Counties during the National Association of Counties conference. Commissioners Skip Brandt and Denis Duman, along with Clerk Kathy Ackerman, will take part in discussions about public policy that directly affects Idaho’s 44 counties. […]
Ukrainska Pravda to hold “How to defeat Goliath” conference on tenth anniversary of war
February 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine. It was the events in Crimea that were the starting point of Russian aggression. At the end of February 2014, Ukraine was not ready to protect its territory or its people. Decades of attempts to “slip between the raindrops” [a famous […]
Israeli settlers hold conference on resettlement in Gaza
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Hundreds of members of the Israeli settler community gathered for a convention in Jerusalem on Sunday calling for Israel to rebuild settlements in Gaza and the northern part of the Occupied West Bank. Israel withdrew its military and settlers from Gaza in 2005 after a 38-year occupation, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]
350 students expected to meet at UC Merced for Students of Color conference
MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Hundreds of students representing all nine University of California undergraduate campuses will descend upon Merced during the weekend for the annual Students of Color Conference, officials announced. Organizers say the conference’s mission is for students of color to come together and share their experiences to better identify targeted advocacy among different […]
UNC System board takes step to give itself power over athletic conference realignment
The UNC System president and governing board will likely soon have the power to prevent the state’s public universities from moving athletic conferences. A committee of the Board of Governors, which oversees the 16 public universities in the UNC System, voted Wednesday in favor of a policy that requires the chancellors of schools interested in […]
Biden to speak at United Auto Workers conference as he woos blue-collar vote in battleground states
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will be the keynote speaker Wednesday at a United Auto Workers’ political convention as he works to sway blue-collar workers his way in critical auto-making swing states such as Michigan and Wisconsin. Biden will speak as the union closes out a three-day gathering in Washington to chart its political […]
‘It’s an ugly place in the conference right now’
Republicans engaged in a tense back-and-forth during their conference lunch Tuesday over border talks with some openly questioning Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s strategy and others assailing colleagues for attacking the proposal before it’s even out. “I think everyone is questioning everyone’s strategy on this,” said Sen. Joni Ernst, an Iowa Republican. “What’s the best […]
Nearly 700 teachers brave the cold at annual MELT conference at Lac qui Parle Valley High School
Jan. 20—LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY — With heads and bodies leaning into blustery, subzero winds, over 650 educators from nine rural school districts made their way into the Lac qui Parle Valley High School on the open prairie on Monday. They were there for the MELT, or the Minnesota River Valley Education Districts Educators Learning […]
Announcing the Second Annual Pfluger Student Leadership Conference
Jan. 19—WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) announced the second annual Pfluger Student Leadership Conference Friday. The event is open to all high school students in the 11th District of Texas and will be held Feb. 24 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Bush Convention Center in Midland. The conference will offer […]
UNC System board considers empowering itself to veto athletic conference realignment
A UNC System Board of Governors committee next week will consider giving the system president and the board the power to prevent universities from changing athletic conferences, according to a meeting agenda. The move comes as conference realignment dominates discussions around college athletics. The ACC voted last year to expand its membership despite objections by […]
Switzerland to hold international conference for demining Ukraine
The conference dedicated to humanitarian demining of Ukraine will be held in Geneva in October 2024. Source: Viola Amherd, President of Switzerland, at the press conference on 15 January following the negotiations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as reported by European Pravda Details: Amherd stressed that mine clearance is the key issue for future rebuilding […]