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Emergency loans for WA cherry farmers after disaster | Columbia Basin

  • March 20, 2024

WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Patty Murray (D-WA), along with Representative Kim Schrier, M.D. (D, WA-08), have announced that Washington state’s sweet cherry growers are now eligible for federal Emergency Farm Loans up to $500,000. This financial assistance comes in the wake of a formal disaster declaration by U.S. Secretary of

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Washington Health Dept. cuts jobs as federal COVID funds run out

  • December 28, 2023

Grace Deng (Washington State Examiner) Washington’s Department of Health has cut over 300 employees who helped with the state’s pandemic response and hundreds more of these jobs are on the chopping block as federal COVID aid dries up. The department already slashed 356 positions and will soon lose funding for 349 more. Funding for most of

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