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Hopkinsville Rotarians gathered on the campus of Hopkinsville Community College to hold their weekly meeting on Tuesday.

Acacia Network and Phipps Houses –two NYC-based nonprofit housing developers– gathered today with State and City officials, partners, and community members to cut the ceremonial ribbon on Santaella Gardens, a mixed-use affordable housing development with 249 units with rents affordable to households earning between 30 and 90% of Area Median Income (AMI), including...

For the thousands of people diagnosed with blood cancers and diseases, bone marrow transplants are imperative.

By Bonita Gooch/The Community Voice • Feb 19, 2021 Changes to the PPP program are intended to level the playing field for underbanked businesses, which are disproportionally Black- and brown-owned. The good news about the new $5 billion of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds approved by Congress in December is that Congress made some favorable revisions just to help small businesses and businesses owned by people of color. The program includes a new loan and forgivabilit...

3:30 The Paycheck Protection Program has helped fund loans for over 5.2 million small businesses across the United States in the last year. That number is set to rise as another round of funding for the Paycheck Protection Program has been approved by Congress. $284 billion has been allocated to fund small business loans. Shelley Brown, a lender relations specialist for the Small Business Administration, says the priority is to focus on businesses most impacted by the pandemic—especially thos...

Governors race in georgia. kemp, unlikely to be overturned, but a judge stepped in and told the state to look at provisional ballots. how significant? >> it is significant. were talking about 27,000 provisional ballots. the margin here is 20,000. the numbers are close, but i dont think that -- you know, depends on how the count goes and things like that. kemp is probably still favored to win and abrams could get kemp below to trigger a runoff, but i think kemp will end up coming out ahead in the...

>> brian kemp has, i think, a pretty bad history when it comes to suppressing votes. when i was asked about brian kemp before, is he doing something new? id say hes not doing something new but hes using every old trick in the book. thats whats kind of unique about him. he doesnt just champion sort of one restriction on voting, the way kris kobach, with his proof of citizenship law, brian kemp as voter id law, purges for not voting, something the supreme court held in a case coming out of ohio th...

When i was asked about brian kemp before, is he doing something new? id say hes not doing something new but hes using every old trick in the book. thats whats kind of unique about him. he doesnt just champion sort of one restriction on voting, the way kris kobach, with his proof of citizenship law, brian kemp as voter id law, purges for not voting, something the supreme court held in a case coming out of ohio the other year, he has this exact match program, which stacey abrams challenged and the...

Which codified that policy that he had just been sued over. so he could put the new policy into effect under a different statutory framework. and under the new iteration of that policy, it appears to be even more racially targeted. under the old version of the law, the registrations he was snagging with this policy were 76% black, latino or asian. under the newer iteration of the law, its 80% black, latino or asian. see? he is getting better at this. meanwhile, the associated press this week rev...