WASHINGTON, April 27 -- The Humane Society Legislative Fund issued the following statement on April 26, 2024: * * * Today, The Guardian reported that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem acknowledged in her upcoming memoir how she ended the lives of her family's 14-month-old puppy and a goat on their farm. Humane Society Legislative Fund president Sara Amundson responded to the revelations with the following statement: "There is no redeeming takeaway from a story about the ending of these animal  more

WASHINGTON, April 23 -- The National Association of Social Workers issued the following news release on April 22, 2024: On April 12, 2024, an important milestone was reached when Governor Laura Kelly signed HB 2484 making Kansas the seventh state to enact the social work interstate licensure compact and reaching the minimum number of states needed to create the compact commission. Since that date, Nebraska has also approved social work interstate licensing compact legislation, bringing the tot  more

NORFOLK, Virginia, April 27 -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued the following statement on April 26, 2024: * * * Please see the following statement from PETA Senior Vice President Colleen O'Brien in response to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's story about shooting her 14-month-old dog: "Most Americans love their dogs, and we suspect that they'll consider Gov. Noem a psychotic loony for letting this rambunctious puppy loose on chickens and then punishing her by deciding to per  more

HURON, South Dakota, April 24 -- The South Dakota Farm Bureau issued the following news release: SDFB will award $8,000 in scholarship monies for 2024. Recipients are high school seniors and college students who themselves or parents/guardians are current members of South Dakota Farm Bureau and have been for at least two years. Applicants could be considered for an agriculture-focused or community-focused scholarship, depending on their major and experience with agriculture. The South Dakota   more