May 7, 2024
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ARPA funds promise new cell towers, better cell service | Mid-Missouri News

Missourians can expect better cell service and connectivity due to $7.9 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding. Fourteen projects received funding through the state’s Cell Towers Grant Program to provide quality cellular service and greater 911 connectivity to high-need areas throughout Missouri, the Missouri Department of Economic Development announced in a news release. This

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DeKalb County soliciting bids for senior tax levy funds – Shaw Local

DeKalb County is soliciting bids from providers of services to DeKalb County seniors for the use of grant year 2025 senior tax levy funds. The DeKalb County Board has restricted the use of the funds to prevent the premature institutionalization of seniors. Keeping seniors out of expensive nursing homes and hospitals results in aggregate cost

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‘I didn’t steal funds, and I certainly didn’t stash billions away’

City A.M. takes a look back at the year highlighting some of the most memorable quotes in the world of business and politics. Sultan Al-Jaber Please help me, show me the road map for a phase-out of fossil fuel that will allow for sustainable socioeconomic development, unless you want to take the world back into

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How Spot Bitcoin ETFs Could Cannibalize 150 Crypto Funds Across The Globe

On Dec. 25, BitMEX Research published a complete list of cryptocurrency-related exchange-traded products (ETPs) It reported that there were 150 crypto-related ETPs across the world with $50.3 billion in assets under management. The firm noted that it could be useful in “determining the extent to which the spot Bitcoin ETF cannibalizes existing ETPs or attracts

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Alleged embezzlement of OR weekly’s funds forces it to lay off staff, halt print

PORTLAND — An Oregon weekly newspaper has had to lay off its entire staff and halt print after 40 years because its funds were embezzled by a former employee, its editor said, in a devastating blow to a publication that serves as an important source of information in a community that, like many others nationwide,

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Additional Funds Approved to Relocate Gopher Tortoises at New Tax Collector Building Site

At the December 12th Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) meeting, the board approved a Consent Agenda item that will amend an accounting issue and request additional services by Straughn Trout Architects to conduct a second Gopher Tortoise census at the pending DMV construction site on Forest Oaks Blvd in Spring Hill and relocate the tortoises

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Most funding for endangered species only benefits a few creatures. Thousands of others are left in limbo

Since passage of the Endangered Species Act 50 years ago, more than 1,700 plants, mammals, fish, insects and other species in the U.S. have been listed as threatened or endangered with extinction. Yet federal government data reveals striking disparities in how much money is allocated to save various biological kingdoms. Of the roughly $1.2 billion

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Mansfield City Council to delay NECIC’s request to reallocate ARPA funds

MANSFIELD — A reconfigured Mansfield City Council is expected to start the new year Tuesday by doing what the previous configuration did at the end of the old one. Namely, again push back a request by the North End Community Improvement Collaborative to reallocate $1.5 million from the city’s American Rescue Plan Act funds. At-large

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EMD Electronics gets state funds to expand – Times News Online

Published December 30. 2023 07:26AM by Jill Whalen jwhalen@tnonline.com Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro visited EMD Electronics in Hometown in April to help announce $300 million investment in the semiconductor specialty gases manufacturing facility. As part of the investment, EMD Electronics is building a new 96,500-square-foot facility on its land in Rush Township to create the

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Funding small projects | Hartsville

The Trousdale County School District was awarded a mini-grant for $9,500 that will be used to fund three projects that will benefit both teachers and students. The mini-grant was provided through Utrust. Founded in 1980, Utrust, formerly the Tennessee School Boards Insurance Trust, is an organization that assists school systems across the state with unemployment

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