Top North Carolina House finance chair stripped of position
By GARY D. ROBERTSONApril 20, 2021 GMT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) The current longest-serving member of the North Carolina House was stripped Tuesday of her chairmanship on the powerful House Finance Committee.
Speaker Tim Moore removed 17-term Rep. Julia Howard from the tax-policy committee and placed her on Appropriations Committee, according to a document from the House Clerk’s Office initialed by Moore.
Howard and Moore, both Republicans, have been in an unusually public feud in recent days over tax legislation. In an emailed statement, Moore and two other House Republican leaders said Howard was removed because she had failed to move the measure “expeditiously” through the committee against the will of the chamber’s GOP caucus, even though she opposed the bill.
Cedar Rapids and its surrounding communities are used to facing and overcoming challenges. Property-damaging flooding has always been an issue there. In fact, according to the city of Cedar Rapids, historic flooding and tornadoes in 2008 cost the Federal Emergency Management Agency $848 million, the agency s sixth-largest declaration ever. Total property damage was estimated at $6 billion. We feel as a community, if we can recover from the floods of 2008, we can meet any challenge, said Ron Corbett, business retention and expansion strategist at the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance. And that s the spirit that s in the in the community and obviously the business community and the citizens.
Charter boat industry expects a busy season
SOUTHWEST HARBOR When the pandemic hit last spring, the charter boat and tour industry thought it was sunk.
“I thought, ‘This is it.’ This is the end of my business,” said Shane Ellis, who runs Ellis Boat Charters in Southwest Harbor.
As bookings dropped off the map as the season was just about to start, he wondered how he would survive and even pondered selling off some of the boats.
But things turned around the middle of the summer and many businesses reported they were as busy as they could be under state regulations.
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Restaurant owners in the coming weeks will be able to apply for the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, set up with $28.6 billion from the American Rescue Plan, but the Small Business Administration wants to make sure that it reaches a diverse population of business owners.
Groundwork for the application launch a date hasn t yet been set is being rolled out in order to increase outreach and training and make sure there aren t technical issues.
The SBA said that the preparation period is an effort to reach out to diverse stakeholders in order to make sure the organization, which is administering the program, understands the needs and barriers restaurants face in accessing emergency relief. Access for historically overlooked groups was a problem with last year s Payroll Protection Program.
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