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Promoting Climate Change Action in Latin America and the Caribbean Format Climate change poses an enormous challenge to development, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean. Despite contributing less than 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, the region’s countries already experience the tip of the climate change spear — from slow onset droughts and floods to sudden-onset disasters — as it disrupts economic activity and livelihoods. In response, the region’s countries a...

Fort Sill sexual assault case stirs up the worst kind of deja vu Despite years of efforts, sexual assault scandals continue to erupt in the Army. (Sgt. Uriah Walker/Army) Multiple cadre members are under investigation at Fort Sill, Okla., in connection with the sexual assault of a trainee, though officials have not confirmed on the record how many of them and what roles they might have played in a crime. This is nothing new for the Army. were charged for assaulting trainees in the past two y...

Youth mental health program wins $150,000 grant in Lane County PeaceHealth has noticed an increase in youths entering emergency departments at RiverBend and University District hospitals for mental health concerns since the pandemic began -- an average of 38 youths per month. Posted: Mar 15, 2021 11:24 AM Updated: Mar 15, 2021 6:42 PM Posted By: Kennedy Dendy LANE COUNTY, Ore. -- A new program was launched Monday as a partnership between The Child Center and PeaceHealth that aims at providing...

[co-author: Stephen Kim] REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS Treasury to Invest $9 Billion in Community Development Financial Institutions and Minority Depository Institutions Through Emergency Capital Investment Program On March 4, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) announced that it was opening the application process for the Emergency Capital Investment Program (ECIP) – a Congressionally authorized new program designed to provide long-term, low-cost equity and subordinated debt financing f...

Graphic Online BY: Yaw K. Dei Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and leader of government business will present the 2021 Budget statement 30.5k Shares 705 2021 Budget will ensure recovery and macroeconomic stability through well-thought out tax measures in a difficult time. In previous budgets, the NPP Government sought to ensure that economic growth and its benefits trickled down to all citizens; and that the benefits are tangibly felt by everyone. Nuisance taxes im...

Taft Stettinius & Hollister With the Small Business Administrations (SBA) announcement late last week in a Senate hearing that it plans on rolling out the Restaurant Revitalization Grant (RRG) Program... Jones Day On January 1, 2021, the U.S. Congress enacted the most significant reforms to U.S. anti-money laundering laws in decades. Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP A federal court in the District of Massachusetts authorized the IRS to serve a "John Doe" summons on a Boston-based "digital curr...

Federal Activities: On March 1, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mark Calabria announced that he authorized the disbursement of $1.09 billion for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s affordable housing allocations for 2020. $711 million will go to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Housing Trust Fund, an increase from the $326.4 million disbursed for 2019. The sum of $383 million will go to the Department of the Treasury for the Capital Magnet Fund, an increase from t...

Skip to main content General who led Fort Hood when Vanessa Guillén was killed coming to San Antonios Fort Sam FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Fort Hood senior commander, Maj. Gen. Scott Efflandt, speaks during a press conference last July about Spc. Vanessa Guillen, who went missing from the post in April and whose body had just been found miles away.Billy Calzada /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Mellisa Mendoza places white roses at a mural for Vanessa Guillen, a U.S. Army soldier ...

GAINESVILLE – "Crossing a bridge when you come to it" might not only be prudent life-advice, it will soon be something more easily accomplished at one thorny location in Gainesville. Thanks to the Georgia Department of Transportation’s Quick Response Project Program the narrow bridge on State Route 13 (also known as Atlanta Highway) that spans Flat Creek will soon become pedestrian friendly. GDOT’s Quick Response Project Program addresses transportation needs such as restriping, intersect...

ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.