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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Last week, President Biden released a fact sheet summarizing a proposed $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package, which promises to have a broad reaching impact on U.S. businesses. TAKEAWAYS The proposal includes a $15 billion grant program to more than one million of the hardest hit small businesses, reimbursement for employee sick leave, and $35 billion to generate low-interest loans and venture capital to help entrepreneurs. The pro...

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Dungeness crab opener, Bodega Bay, Calif. Faces of California Fishing photo. First came whales, then came a price most West Coast Dungeness crabbers deemed too low to fish for, but after nearly two months of having their gear at the ready, San Francisco area Dungie fishermen finally set their pots Monday, Jan. 11, at 8 a.m. They will begin hauling Wednesday at the same time, under an “organized start” agreed to by fleets out of Half Moon Bay, San Francisco and Bodega Bay to prevent a mad da...

Dungeness crabs caught off California. California Department of Fish and Wildlife photo. The California Dungeness crab fishery opened Dec. 23 after more than a month of delay, but no gear has been set and no crab have been offloaded as the fleet stays tied up, striking against low prices offered by seafood buyers. Holding out over a low price is nothing new for the San Francisco area fleet, but this strike covers most of the West Coast, from Newport, Ore., to all of California. Dungeness crab f...

Highlights The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signed an agreement to delegate to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) the authority to issue wetland permits in the state under Section 404 of the federal Clean Water Act (CWA), effective on Dec. 22, 2020. Florida joins only two other states, New Jersey and Michigan, that have assumed such authority. The new FDEP regulations include enforceable deadlines, shorter review periods and shorter comment periods, the ...

What about for taxpayers? joe led the buy-out for one stat -- staten island community. >> as a home owner i think its great, and as a taxpayer its great. >> the fear is that youre giving an unjustifiable amount to an area and a real estate zone that might have a permanent blight on it. you say thats not the case. >> no. definitely not the case. time heals all wounds, but if you continue to have hurricanes, without a doubt it would be a pretty big impredment on values. but in terms of fairness, i...

This moscow-style attack, a suicide bomb in say, an open area like baggage claim, realistically, could the tsa prevent something like that? >> well, i dont think at this point neither tsa or actually most other airport security organizations are able to promise us a complete protection against this type of attack because i think that by nature this vulnerability will always be here to some extent. but i think that the question we need to ask ourselves is, what do we do the most in order to mitig...