NORFOLK, Virginia, March 29 -- The Association of Writers and Writing Programs issued the following news release on March 27, 2024: The Association of Writers & Writing Programs returned to Kansas City, Missouri for its annual AWP Conference & Bookfair (#AWP24), twenty-four years after it first landed in the Paris of the Plains. The Midwest came out strong for #AWP24 with 8,000 attendees. #AWP24 also hosted 550 exhibitors, representing 630 organizations. Four hundred thirty-one events were held  more

WASHINGTON, March 29 -- Heritage Action for America issued the following statement on March 28, 2024: * * * Heritage Action, a conservative grassroots organization with two million activists nationwide, including thousands of Kansans, commends the Kansas Legislature for passing SB 233, legislation that protects children from radical gender ideology by banning the practice and recommendation of experimental surgeries and dangerous cross-sex hormones. Former Kansas Assistant Secretary of State   more

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- The International Dairy Foods Association issued the following joint statement on March 25, 2024, with three organizations: The organizations are the National Milk Producers Federation, U.S. Dairy Export Council and Dairy Management Inc. * * * Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in two dairy cattle herds in Texas and two herds in Kansas. Importantly, USDA confirmed that there is no threat to human healt  more

WASHINGTON, March 29 -- The National Association of Wheat Growers issued the following news release: Texas A&M student Lee Thornton joined the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) as the spring policy intern. Lee Thornton grew up in Winnie, Texas on a calf-cattle ranch where he first became invested in the agricultural industry. This background led him to pursue an Agribusiness major with a minor in Economics. At Texas A&M, he is heavily involved in volunteering and giving back to the c  more