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May 8, 2021 6:50pm Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are asking for new federal earmarks to help hospitals in their districts buy a range of new items like CT scanners or mobile health clinics. (Getty Images/Bill Chizek) Earmarks are coming back in Congress, and nonprofit hospitals and health systems have asked lawmakers for new state-of-the-art medical equipment and expansions to behavioral health and emergency rooms. The House Appropriations Committee released the requests from lawmakers ...

View Comments LAS CRUCES – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham approved $28.2 million in capital outlay projects for Doña Ana County as part of a $511 million capital bill this month; and for the first time, the public can see how and where state legislators and the governor directed the public infrastructure dollars under their discretion.  Thats because lawmakers passed a law during this winters 60-day legislative session requiring the previously secret funding requests to be published by the L...

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Commonwealth submits $326M in pre-disaster grants for Virginia localities Published Monday, Apr. 19, 2021, 8:15 pm Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com The Virginia Department of Emergency Management announced that 53 hazard mitigation project applications were submitted to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under two grant pro...

Commonwealth Submits over $326,000,000 in Pre-Disaster Grants for Virginia Localities RICHMOND – The Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) announced that 53 hazard mitigation project applications were submitted to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under two grant programs.  These projects total over $326 million and demonstrates the increased interest in taking pre-disaster actions to reduce risk from future disasters Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communiti...

All photo credit: Thermwood Corp. Purdue University’s Composites Manufacturing Simulation Center (CMSC, West Lafayette, Ind., U.S.) and Thermwood Corp. (Dale, Ind., U.S.) have agreed to establish a large-scale additive manufacturing (LSAM) laboratory to perform industry-funded research into large-scale composite thermoplastic additive manufacturing (AM). The new facility will be established at Purdue’s Indiana Manufacturing Institute, located in the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayett...

Erika Frydenlund is a Research Assistant Professor at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center at Old Dominion University. Her primary research focus is on migration and mobility. She has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, master’s degree in statistics, and Ph.D. in International Studies. Additionally, she has graduate certificates in Women’s Studies and Modeling & Simulation. Much of her work focuses on combining quantitative and qualitative data in simulations for understa...

Jose J. Padilla is a Research Associate Professor at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center at Old Dominion University. His primary research focuses on advancing computational modeling methods towards increasing modeling accessibility across ages and across disciplines. His research takes him from the office to in-country fieldwork generating insight into topics ranging from cybersecurity to migration and displacement. Experience

Here are the new Indiana COVID-19 numbers released by the state health department on Sunday, April 11, 2021.

Egypt plans New Delta to boost food security Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered the implementation of a megaproject to cultivate 1 million feddans west of the Nile Delta in Lower Egypt. The project, dubbed New Delta, aims to create modern agricultural and urban communities as well as industrial complexes that operate in the field of agricultural production. An Egyptian farmer harvests wheat in Saqiyat al-Manqadi village in the northern Nile Delta province of Menoufia in Egypt...