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Audubon Area Community Services receiving over $600K in federal funding By 14 News Staff | May 13, 2021 at 9:36 AM CDT - Updated May 13 at 9:36 AM OWENSBORO, Ky. (WFIE) - Senator Mitch McConnell announced 27 community service agencies and educational organizations across the Commonwealth will be receiving nearly $4.3 million in federal funding. Audubon Area Community Services in Owensboro is one of those organizations that will be granted funding. They are set to get over $600,000. Official...

"Muck dredging is clearly not solving the problem," Randy Fine said. "We have to prevent the nutrients from getting in the water."

Gadsden City Council President Cynthia Toles at the end of Tuesday’s council meeting reiterated the city’s response to comments last week by the attorney for opponents of a proposed Pilgrim’s Pride rendering plant.  Christie Knowles in a social media post last week said Mayor Sherman Guyton “essentially accused” her of stealing confidential documents that dealt with the plant. Her firm represents both plaintiffs in a pair of lawsuits against the plant.   Knowles also said ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: UT is helping the Texas General Land Office locate sand for projects to restore beaches along the Texas coast, which is under threat from rising sea levels and tropical storms.... view more  Credit: Texas General Land Office Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin will embark from Galveston on April 14 in search of sunken treasure that holds the key to protecting Texas from storms and rising seas: sand. About 80% of Texas Gulf shoreline is critically eroded, a...

Oil spill response Q: Ive been reading news reports about the recent oil spills in the San Francisco Bay Area and learned that the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is the lead state agency handling oil spills. How did the department assume this authority? (Dave) A: CDFW’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) was established by the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act of 1990. The legislation came on the heels of two major spills, the 1989 ...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Delivering the first major legislative victory for President Biden, Congress passed another COVID-19 relief package that, at a cost of $1.9 trillion, is almost as much as the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act enacted a year ago in March 2020. The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 will provide another round of stimulus checks to individuals and families, ext...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On Wednesday, March 10, the House passed the Senate-approved version of H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, on a 220-211 vote (title-by-title summary available here). No Republicans supported the bill, and one Democrat, Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME), opposed the bill. Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-OR), who previously voted against the bill, voted to support the measure, which aims to accelera...

These Mothers Wanted to Care for Their Kids and Keep Their Jobs. Now Theyre Suing After Being Fired Read full article Lauren Martinez and her family in Cape Coral, Fla. Lauren Martinez and her family in Cape Coral, Fla. Credit - Mary Beth Koeth for TIME W hen Lauren Martinez arrived home after work to find her teenage daughter feverish and vomiting, she knew her pandemic plans were about to fall apart. It was May 2020 and her day care had closed, so Martinez, an assistant office manager at a de...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: With distribution of COVID-19 vaccines moving ahead full-steam, an end to the pandemic may be in sight in the coming months. However, what is collectively known as the “new normal” still comes with a minefield of unanswered questions, particularly for employers, and the vaccine issue is no different. Contending with the polarization of vaccine skepticism and the country’s desire to return to “normal” in the wake of a global ...

More rental relief is on the way for Alaskans struggling to pay bills because of the COVID-19 pandemic.