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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Maryland Newsletter for Thursday April 11, 2024 ( 6 items )  

Auto Care Association: Survey - 84% of Independent Repair Shops View Vehicle Data Access as Top Issue for Their Business
BETHESDA, Maryland, April 11 (TNSres) -- The Auto Care Association issued the following news release on April 10, 2024: * * * National responses highlight need for bipartisan REPAIR Act to protect competition. * * * Today, the Auto Care Association released results from a new nationwide survey of repair shops highlighting the challenges that independent repair facilities face when servicing vehicles, often forcing them to turn away business. These new survey findings reiterate the immediate   more

BMA Presents Three Thematic Exhibitions That Explore Native Perspectives Through Time
BALTIMORE, Maryland, April 9 -- The Baltimore Museum of Art issued the following news release on April 8, 2024: The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) presents three thematic exhibitions as part of its Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum initiative, which significantly enhances the presence of Native voices, experiences, and works across the museum. From May 12 through December 1, 2024, the BMA's contemporary galleries will feature three interrelated exhibitions. Finding Home, Enduring Buffalo, and  more

Epic Special Education Staffing Becomes New Corporate Partner of ASHA
ROCKVILLE, Maryland, April 11 -- The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association issued the following news release on April 10, 2024: The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) announced today that Epic Special Education Staffing (Epic Special Ed), a national staffing company for special education professionals, has become an ASHA Corporate Partner. ASHA's partnership with Epic Special Ed will help broaden the professional reach of ASHA member speech-language pathologists (SLPs)   more

New Engine Technology Forum Digital Event
FREDERICK, Maryland, April 11 -- The Engine Technology Forum (formerly the Diesel Technology Forum) issued the following news release: The Engine Technology Forum (ETF) will launch its 2024 digital event series on May 1 with a webinar about innovations in engine technology for enhancing the use of propane as a vehicle fuel. Propane has 52% fewer greenhouse gas emissions compared to equivalent amount of energy generated from the U.S. electrical grid. Renewable propane is made from sustainable f  more

REJECTED: BMA Commissions Artist Caroline Monnet to Create Site-Specific Installation Inspired by Chesapeake Bay and Anishinaabe Lifeways
BALTIMORE, Maryland, April 9 -- The Baltimore Museum of Art issued the following news release on April 8, 2024: On May 12, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) opens Caroline Monnet: River Flows Through Bent Trees, a new, site-specific installation commissioned by the museum. Monnet (Anishinaabe/French) is a multidisciplinary artist from Outaouais, Quebec, whose work investigates cultural histories as a means of understanding contemporary Indigenous identity and bicultural existence. For her BMA c  more

State Tax Recap: Updates From 3 States on Exempting Military Retirement Pay
WASHINGTON, April 10 [Category: National Defense] -- The Military Officers Association of America issued the following news: By MOAA Staff MOAA National serves in an advisory capacity for state-specific issues such as income tax exemption. Please contact your local MOAA council as state legislation must originate at the state level. Military retirees and surviving spouses in New Mexico will benefit from a tax bill signed into law March 6, while lawmakers in Maryland and Oregon considered inc  more