Local News Commission adopts new state seal, narrows flag designs to top three By Pauleen Le, Caroline Cummings Updated on: December 12, 2023 / 10:54 PM CST / CBS Minnesota ST.

The Massachusetts Seal, Flag, and Motto Advisory Commission launched an open call for proposals Thursday. It is the second effort to rethink the state's emblems since 2020, and the first one ...

Eighty-five percent of the submissions are for the flag, while 15 percent for the seal. The flag designs include classic Minnesota elements such as trees, water, loons, the north star and even the ...

Residents have sent in 2,600+ for redesigns of the state flag and the state seal by the Oct. 30 deadline. The commission only accepted 2,123 so far as "qualifying submissions." ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — At the State Capitol Thursday, a proposal was heard that aims to resurrect the retired Minnesota state flag. The bill — authored by 22 House Republicans — would allow the ...

The current iteration of the Minnesota state flag as seen in St. Paul on March 24, 2022. The seal has been criticized by some for being overly complicated and offensive to Indigenous groups.

MINNEAPOLIS — The panel tasked with finding Minnesota's new state flag and seal has finalized a design for each, and it has a couple of weeks to complete a final report about its decisions.

By next May the state flag will be lowered for the last time and replaced by a new banner designed by a 13-member commission created to approve both a new flag and a new “Great Seal of the State ...

Surrounding the seal are 19 stars representing Minnesota as the 19th state to join the Union after the 13 original American colonies, and three dates: 1819 for the founding of Fort Snelling, 1858 ...

The seal was a key feature of the old flag, hence the pressure for changing both. Unless the Legislature votes to reject the new emblems, which seems unlikely, they will become official May 11.

Virginia is the only U.S. state that hoists a flag bearing the image of a woman's bare breast. The reason for this has everything to do with the evolution and changing appearance of the state's seal.