WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management issued the following news release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming State Office today opened a 30-day public comment period to receive public input on 20 oil and gas parcels totaling 11,250.55 acres that may be included in an upcoming lease sale in Wyoming. The comment period ends February 8, 2024. The BLM completed scoping on these parcels November 2023 and is now seeking public comment   more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Jan. 10 (TNSres) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City issued the following article: By Chad Wilkerson and Chase Farha This edition of Oklahoma Economist examines multiple sources of state migration data to quantify the drivers of the state's population growth. It finds the recent surge of new residents was driven primarily by historic levels of domestic migration from states in the western half of the U.S., as well as a reversal of the "brain drain" that plagued th  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 -- The National Endowment for the Humanities issued the following news release on Jan. 9, 2024: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $33.8 million in grants for 260 humanities projects across the country. Among these are grants to support research for a cultural, political, and legal history of cancer in America that focuses on the Ames test for carcinogens; create a baccalaureate degree program in Native American studies at Saginaw Chippewa Tribal  more

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan. 10 -- Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes issued the following statement on Jan. 9, 2024: * * * Attorney General Sean D. Reyes led a comment letter on behalf of 25 States to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over a recent proposed rule change that would allow the New York Stock Exchange to list "Natural Asset Companies" (NACs) on the exchange. NACs are a novel corporate structure designed to take land off the market to prohibit productive economic use  more