WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced the availability of more than $12 million for states and tribal governments, research institutions and universities to control and prevent chronic wasting disease in wild and farmed cervids (e.g., deer, elk). State departments of agriculture, state animal health agencies, state departments
Nonprofit service providers rallied at the Capitol Wednesday to push for more funding next fiscal year. Democrats in the legislature say nonprofits are among their priorities, but they’re still negotiating how to spend leftover funds next year. Nonprofits say they’ve been underfunded for years and need additional funding to continue serving their clients. Tracie
As Philadelphia City Council held the latest in its ongoing schedule of hearings on the budget for the coming year, Leslie Richards, the CEO and general manager of SEPTA, addressed elected officials to detail a looming multimillion deficit for the mass transit provider. There were plenty of questions in City Hall on Wednesday as councilmembers
On March 13, 2020, then-President Donald Trump declared the nascent COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency. In April 2023, President Biden officially terminated the national emergency. Four years removed from the official onset of COVID-19, schools and students still face a host of pandemic-related symptoms, including stagnating test scores and stubbornly high chronic absenteeism. In other words, the pandemic is over, but the
GEORGETOWN, S.C. (WMBF) – State officails say a Georgetown-area marina recently received federal funding for improvements. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources said the Heritage Plantation Marina will get $736,336 to improve its dock space as part of the Boating Infrastructure Grant (BIG) program. “Using money from excise taxes on fishing equipment, motorboat and
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed into law a $95 billion package to provide critical aid to Ukraine and enact a provision that could lead to a nationwide ban on TikTok. “It’s going to make America safer, it’s gonna make the world safer, and it continues America’s leadership in the world, and everyone
The ongoing political backlash against various companies’ ESG policies repeatedly fails to produce evidence of lowered financial returns, writes Sam Raus.Leonid Sorokin/Leonid – stock.adobe.com This month the State of Texas government terminated an $8.5 billion investment managed by BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management firm, over the company’s continued use of environmental, social and governance
KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine received a new 1.5-billion-euro ($1.6 billion) tranche of financial support from the European Union on Wednesday and hopes to get another 10 billion euros later this year, officials said. Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said the EU, which has provided Ukraine with 31 billion euros, had become the biggest donor of budget
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has announced the distribution of $3.6 million in pandemic relief funds to more than two dozen arts groups in the city, with a special emphasis on those that serve racial minorities and that historically have been under-represented. “Public dollars have too often gone to just the big names and big players
Sterling resident Kent Tompkins, 55, was arrested last week, on April 16, on two charges of wire fraud for alleged fraudulent application for COVID-19 relief funds. An indictment returned by a federal grand jury last month, on March 19, says that Tompkins schemed to defraud the Small Business Administration by illegally applying for and receiving