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Cigarette tax and other taxes: A bill that would add $2 to the price of a pack of cigarettes received its first hearing Tuesday before the Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee.
But the committee took no action and held Senate Bill 197 as part of an effort to have a larger discussion on all legislation involving taxes. “They want to corral all these bills together that will have implications on revenue and taxes and look at them as a whole.” Chris Nordstrom said, a spokesman for Senate Democrats. The hope, he added, is to develop an omnibus tax package will details on each proposal.
Doha: In its regular weekly meeting held today, Shura Council discussed values, principles and ethics in society and as part of its recommendations it urged to monitor the curricula and practices of foreign schools to ensure that they do not conflict with our religious beliefs.
Shura Council recommends monitoring curricula and practices of foreign schools to ensure no conflict with religious beliefs
15 Feb 2021 - 18:11
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Doha: In its regular weekly meeting held today, Shura Council discussed values, principles and ethics in society and as part of its recommendations it urged to monitor the curricula and practices of foreign schools to ensure that they do not conflict with our religious beliefs.
The Shura Council held the meeting under the chairmanship of Speaker of the Shura Council HE Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud. The session was held via video conferencing.
At the outset of the session, the Council stressed the importance of preserving values, principles and ethics in society, which was previously discussed in a session held by the Council, and the Council referred the issue to the Information and Cultural Affairs Committee to further study it in light of a number of papers submitted by a number of members on this issue.
A Maine man facing federal charges for his role in the deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol railed against a proposed education center for new immigrants in a 2017 State House hearing. In a video obtained by WMTW News, Kyle Fitzsimons said he had grown up in New York and Rhode Island and thought those states were "multicultural hell holes." Sign up for our Newsletters During Fitzsimons’ three-minute testimony before the Education and Cultural.