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* Press release… After speaking to the investments made possible by the FY22 state budget this morning, Governor JB Pritzker signed Senate Bill 2017, the FY22 Budget Implementation Act, as well as the certification of the General Assembly’s concurrence on Senate Bill 2800, the state’s spending plan. “By signing the state budget today, Illinois is taking a giant step forward, toward true fiscal stability,” said Governor JB Pritzker. “We balanced the 2022 fiscal year budget independen...

Mar 10, 2021 An item on the Norman City Council meeting agenda drew discussion and a no-vote from one of its members Tuesday night. Several councilors questioned the use of funds for a vaccination program which has been set aside for the city’s Small Business Relief Program. Nearly 300 businesses received $10,000 in grants from the city’s apportionment of Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act funds but approximately $55,000 remains after businesses failed to qualify...

Mar 8, 2021 Funds from the city’s Small Business Relief Program could be used for free vaccines if the Norman City Council approves a resolution during its Tuesday night meeting. In addition, the council will also consider using federal funds to help low income residents with damage related to the October 2020 ice storm and move forward with an electric transit bus. According to a staff report, $55,000 remains unspent from the $6.5 million in Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Recovery (C...

Date Time Council to improve disability access Motorists are advised that there will be minor disruption to parking at the intersection of Blende and Oxide Streets later this month as Council works to improve disability access in the Central Business District (CBD). Reconstruction of kerb guttering will see disability-friendly ramps placed around the intersection, and refuge islands will also be replaced and upgraded. The ten-week project will begin on February 23, and works will be completed i...

The victor in this trade war with china and throw spikes in chinas path to economic domination. >> just by deciding to fight he already changed things fundamentally for the better. administrations in both parties going back to the 1980s and looking the other way. sticking with his guns and insisting on real change, not just an agreement that may be an agreement by china to buy more boeing planes or soybeans. but demanding fundamental change. china is unlikely to come in from the cold. arthel: th...

Believe that the president cant get 59 democrats and one republican from maine to support his objectives. >> joe, to your point, perhaps last august he should have brought the wavering democrats down to his office and had a list of the classic earmarks that every senator puts in budget bills and taken a big red magic marker and sat the senator down and said watch this, your health clinic? thats gone. your road program? thats gone. what else do you want me to take away from you. i need something ...