Cities are getting a windfall from Biden s COVID relief bill. Now how are they going to spend it? Joey Garrison, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON Mayors are accustomed to juggling priorities with limited city revenue: Park upgrades or staff pay increases? Street paving or that long-awaited new community center?
The crunch tightened during a global pandemic.
But an infusion of $350 billion in federal COVID-19 rescue funds now headed to local and state governments this week sets up a new – and welcomed – dilemma: how to spend a financial windfall.
Two months after President Joe Biden signed his American Rescue Plan into law, the Treasury Department on Monday made available a historic amount of direct aid to thousands of city and county governments. Local governments are in line to collectively receive more than $110 billion over two years in addition to $125 billion for the reopening of public schools. Another $195.3 billion
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PAWHUSKA The photographs are faded shades of sepia and gray, and the newspapers that chronicled the tragedies and trials are yellowed and embrittled.
But for members of the Osage Nation especially those still deeply rooted in Osage County the history of the 1920s Reign of Terror remains as fresh as the under-construction wooden facades and newly painted storefronts created for the making of Oscar winner Martin Scorsese s fact-based film Killers of the Flower Moon. I grew up in Fairfax. Margie Burkhart, the granddaughter of Mollie Burkhart, was my best friend. So, we always grew up knowing that story. We knew the traumas of what happened to her family and to other Osages. But most of the world does not, said Danette Daniels, an Osage businesswoman who still lives in Fairfax and owns the Water Bird Gallery in downtown Pawhuska, just a block away from where much of the filming is underway.
Gov. Kevin Stitt lifts Oklahomaâs COVID-19 State of Emergency effective Tuesday Share Updated: 7:34 AM CDT May 4, 2021 Share Updated: 7:34 AM CDT May 4, 2021
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Show Transcript STITTâS DECISION HERE. CHRISTINE: THE GOVERNOR SAYS THIS DECISION IS A RESULT OF CASES AND HOSPITALIZATIONS DOWN ACROSS THE STATE IN A VIDEO POSTED ON ALL SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS YESTERDAY, THE GOVERNOR SAID THAT OKLAHOMAâS 7-DAY AVERAGE OF NEW CASES IS DOWN 94% FROM ITS PEAK. STITT ALSO MENTIONED THAT HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE DOWN AND ARE STABLE. THE GOVERNOR EXPLAINING HIS DECISION WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE ACTIONS OF ALL OKLAHOMANS OVER THE PAST YEAR, SAYING COVID-19 IS NO LONGER AN EMERGENCY. WITH MORE PEOPLE GETTING THE VACCINE, KIDS BACK AT SCHOOL, BUSINESS IS REOPENING AND THE DRIVING UNEMPLOYMENT RATE. WE WERE THE FIRST STATE TO REOPEN OUR ECONOMY ON JUNE 1ST AND WEâRE CONTINUING TO LEAD THE NATION NOW. CHRISTINE: YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT RE
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A spray-painted sign outside Builders Warehouse in Oklahoma City, Okla. tells customers about mask requirement.
As of Friday, Oklahoma’s two largest cities have no mask mandate. City officials say they’re shifting their focus away from stop the spread and to vaccines. The role of municipal government in halting the spread of the virus has now ended, as it was always meant to, said Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt in a Friday press conference.
One year, one month and 15 days after he first addressed the city about the oncoming public health emergency, he announced the end of the city’s mask mandate after the city council allowed the municipal ordinance to expire. Tulsa’s mask mandate also ended on Friday.