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Provided by Dow Jones By Nick Timiraos The Treasury Department and Federal Reserve said Tuesday they had extended the cutoff date for the Main Street Lending Program from Dec. 31 to Jan. 8 to process a last-minute crush to deliver loans. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin last month declined to grant an extension to several emergency-lending programs run by the Fed, including the Main Street Lending Program, which is designed to support lending to small and midsize...

Chatham County commissioners wont get pay increase Follow Us Question of the Day SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - New commissioners in Chatham County won’t be getting a pay raise. The current board backed down from an attempt to increase pay for commissioners by $5,000 a year, removing it from an agenda at a Friday meeting The Savannah Morning News reports the increase was proposed by Commissioner Pat Farrell earlier this month. Farrell on Friday removed the proposal from the ...

Under state law commissioners cannot increase their own pay as a board. Instead, the current board can approve a pay raise for its successor. Since the pay raise wasn’t approved Friday, which was the final meeting of 2020, commissioners won’t be eligible for a base pay increase for another four years. The base salary for commissioners is $27,328.79.  Commissioners may earn an additional $1,200 per year for completion of ACCG (Georgias county association) certification, said Chatham County...

Savannah Mayor Van Johnson TO PRevent the further spread of COVID-19, Savannah Mayor Van Johnson is recommending that the city continue its moratorium on issuing event permits through Feb. 28, 2021. The city’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations remain up in the air. “In consultation with our public-health and epidemiology professionals, and looking at the difficult road ahead, I will be recommending to the Savannah City Council and the Savannah C...

AJ 40 under 40: IF_DO 10 December 2020 By Richard Waite, illustration by Simon Hayes Following its competition-winning design for the 2017 Dulwich Picture Gallery Pavilion, the AJ 40 under 40 practice has won a growing number of larger-scale commissions The three co-founders of Bermondsey-based IF_DO first met in 2002 at the University of Edinburgh. But it wasn’t until 12 years later that they reconverged to form a practice whose intention was to create ‘diverse, generous and i...

modest contraction in 2011 over 2012. freight remains at a relatively high level of demand. 46 or 47 million tons. there was some fairly dire predictions, particularly about the durability of the new product introduction coming into market, consumer electronics. it has been some acceptance of one over another product, but maybe not so much. the first quarter has been pretty good. there has been some capacity discipline in major freight markets, yields have improved a bit. i think every...

plus, should we be expecting a serious third party presidential candidate in 2012? the more parties the better, aim right, bros? and a new book claims the founder of ikea was a member of the swedish nazi party. we will see if that explains the instructions straight ahead. greg? >> thank you, andy. >> happy billy ray cyrus birthday. >> is that any relation to miley cyrus? >> i believe she will be popping up out of his birthday cake. >> fun fact, andy, when you plan for that sort of occa...

cake. >> fun fact, andy, when you plan for that sort of occasion, dont use real cake. it can ends in tragedy. >> you have had experience with that i take it? >> it was a no bake peanut butter cheesecake so there was no fatalities. >> thats a relief. >> not really. her family had a peanut allergy and everybody swelled up. >> my kind of party. >> i didnt invite you for that precise reason jie. and i appreciate that. >> dam you to hell. >> i apologize for nothing. >> lets welcome our gues...

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sexualize women in media and decide. >> thank you, andy. >> happy national tooth fairy day. >> i cant celebrate that day. >> how come? >> last year i woke up in a hotel room and some guy was standing over me saying he was the tooth fairy and i was excited smd. turned out he was lying. he was nothing of the sort. >> what happened? >> i dont want to get into it, but we are no longer sharing a condo in orlando. >> that bad? >> that good. >> i understand. >> i knew you would. >> have a goo...