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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has wasted no time spreading his message that under the Biden administration, everything about urban transportation will change, especially the way people think about it. In the new world of urban transportation, equity and concern for the interests of people other than drivers will take precedence. But this view goes up against a century of thinking that has catered to cars to the exclusion of everyone else, and changing those entrenched habits will prove difficult. For evidence, we offer stories from Houston, where the Texas Department of Transportati...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The recently enacted Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (Act) contains a wide range of tax, appropriations, and other provisions, including pandemic-specific provisions and extensions of provisions in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Following is a summary of some of the key tax provisions of the Act. New Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans Provides new PPP loans available to first-time qualified borrowers and to prior PPP loan recipients, with an expanded list of types of eligible borrowers. Ex...

  Excerpt from House Agriculture Committee:  The Agriculture Committee was given a total of $26 billion to spend on COVID relief for nutrition assistance and agriculture and rural programs. Half of that funding, $13 billion, was provided to the House Agriculture and the House Education & Labor Committees to provide nutrition assistance. The other $13 billion went to agricultural assistance and programs. Of that $13 billion, $300 million was provided to the Commerce Department to operate a program to assist the fisheries industry. … May make payments to producers of advanced biofuel, bioma...

Bill Includes A Partial Extension Of The Highly Successful Payroll Support Program Following Monday's introduction of Covid-relief legislation backed by bicameral, bipartisan support, Regional Airline Association (RAA) President and CEO Faye Malarkey Black urged Congress to support the measure and offered the following statement: "Yesterday, Congress formally introduced the Emergency Coronavirus Relief Act, marking a crucial step forward in the bipartisan, bicameral effort to bring much-needed relief to Americans who remain deeply impacted by the pandemic, including tens of thousands of displ...