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On Feb. 8, House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal (D-MA) released text representing its portion of Democrats’ $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus legislation, modeled after President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan.
The legislation includes the following priorities:
Employee Retention Tax Credit
$1,400 Economic Impact Payments
Enhanced Child Tax Credit (CTC), Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC), and Earned income Tax Credit (EITC)
Expanded sick leave and paid leave credits
COBRA Subsidies
Repeal of election to allocate interest on a worldwide basis
A minimum wage increase is included in the Education and Labor Committee’s section of the bill. The provision would gradually increase the minimum wage by 2025. It is unclear whether it will be able to survive procedural tests in the Senate.
Housing and Development Newsletter
It went to the City Council on Tuesday in hopes of obtaining a specific plan for development of the site.
A majority of the City Council objected and referred the proposal for conceptual review to the Santa Barbara Planning Commission.
The clinic intends to relocate its current center from 4141 State St. to the site, and change the zoning from parks and low-density residential to medical office use and a higher-level of housing to possibily build affordable housing.
The American Indian Health & Services Clinic is in the process of acquiring the former Army Reserve Center at 3237 State St. in Santa Barbara. (Jade Martinez-Pogue / Noozhawk photo)
When Biden won the election, Sisi of Egypt started to worry US aid to Egypt would be cut, so he hired lobbying powerhouse Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck for $65,000 a month.
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has leaped into the water lawsuit adjudication pool with a resounding splash, ripping the proposed Physical Solution (a step, not an end, in the water adjudication process) with a letter vigorously admonishing the city of Ventura, on behalf of Fish and Wildlife and the State Water Resources Control Board.
The state Department of Justice outlines the missteps of the Ventura City Council on numerous procedural issues, including the rush to judgement ahead of the Watershed Criteria Report that is to be completed this year and its modeling work in 2022; lack of transparency regarding five phantom experts; neglect to serve all parties in the case; the assumption that surface water rights can be included when they have yet to be ruled upon by the judge; a deficiency of findings to support Ventura’s claims of rights; a failure to meet requirements relevant to California statutes; the unmet burden-of-proof