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Innovative Program Leverages Downtown Growth to Make Direct Investments into Neighborhood Businesses Across City's South, West and Southwest Sides Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced the third round of investments from the Neighborhood Opportunity Fund directly into 33 small businesses in Chicago's South, West and Southwest Sides. The businesses receiving a total of approximately $5 million in investment include a Grand Boulevard grocery store, a North Lawndale restaurant and a Little Village fruit market.
George Wallace is a contributor to Writers on the Range, the opinion service of High Country News . He has ranched and farmed in the West all his life.
Thousands protested in central Moscow on Sunday against a proposed increase to the retirement age and the crowd chanted slogans critical of President Vladimir Putin whose approval ratings have been dented by the bill. The rally organized by the opposition Libertarian Party chanted "Putin is a thief" and "away with the tsar," slogans common at anti-Putin and anti-government protests.
T he state official overseeing the race, a known voter suppressor, won a GOP runoff this week to be the nominee. If past is prologue -- and in the world of elections it often is -- the race for the next governor of Georgia may be one of the dirtiest of 2018.
Maryland's U.S. senators say the Social Security Administration is demonstrating "hostility towards its workforce" in the way it is implementing recent executive orders signed by President Donald J. Trump . Trump signed the orders in May with the stated goals of promoting accountability, rooting out poor performers and negotiating union contracts more advantageous to taxpayers and the federal government.
House Republicans have launched an effort to expand the massive tax law they muscled through Congress last year, aiming to make permanent the individual tax cuts and small-business income deductions now set to expire in 2026. The pre-midterm elections push, which clicked into gear Tuesday, is portrayed as championing the middle class and small businesses.
If you were embroiled in a dispute over claims for benefits or federal enforcement actions, your case would probably end up before an administration law judge . These judges - of whom there are more than 1,900 across the federal government, 1,600 in the Social Security Administration alone - oversee trial-like hearings and adjudicate a range of administrative and regulatory questions.
The chairman of the House committee on appropriations will appropriate the unpaid share of local government units amounting to more than P1 trillion following decision by the Supreme Court. Davao City first district Rep. Karlo Nograles said however that they will wait first for the final and executory decision of SC on the said decision as this involves a huge amount to be paid by the national government to LGUs.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen visited the Londonderry maker of honey wines Moonlight Meadery today. She stopped by to illustrate how local companies are impacted by the Trump administration's trade policies.
Signs express support for Dreamers at a September 2017 rally in Portland to protest president Donald Trump's decision to end DACA. Signs express support for Dreamers at a September 2017 rally in Portland to protest president Donald Trump's decision to end DACA.
As 3D printers become better and more affordable , more and more entrepreneurs become interested in how they can contribute to their small businesses or provide avenues for brand new businesses altogether. Being able to manufacture products without the same staff, machinery, and space requirements opens all new avenues of productivity and profit.
"You have to, especially in an environment like this, you have to work to earn trust a and I've worked very hard to do that," the first daughter and adviser to the president said Wednesday at the Bipartisan Policy Center. "And I don't want to call out names because a lot of people who engaged with me in the most substantive way have done so because they know that I'm not going to violate their confidence and share their perspectives publicly."
They've got this Charlie Brown-like optimism - or naivete - that one day they'll actually kick that football a or win an election. Last week, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced it would put resources into Joe Cunningham's race to win the 1st District congressional seat.
IndyMac Bancorp Inc. will lay off more than half of its employees and will no longer offer fixed-rate home mortgages, Michael W. Perry, the bank's chairman and CEO, said in a prepared statement Monday. Perry also announced that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has downgraded IndyMac's lending status from "well-capitalized," which means the bank can no longer accept brokered cash deposits without a waiver by the FDIC.
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan's joint fundraising committee said Friday it had raised almost $10 million during the second quarter of 2018 as he and other Republicans try to keep control of the chamber in a challenging environment for their party in November's elections. The committee, called Team Ryan, said it has raised more than $70 million so far in the 2017-18 election cycle.
Hurricane season is in full swing, running from June through November. Unfortunately, no one can stop a tropical storm or hurricane from happening and both types of weather events are increasingly impacting larger portions of the U.S. However, there are steps you can take that will help you weather a storm and better ensure the safety of your family.
Financial disclosure forms for Kavanaugh, whom President Donald Trump announced Monday as his pick to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, show that he incurred tens of thousands of dollars of credit card debt to buy Nationals tickets over the last decade, The Washington Post reported Wednesday . White House spokesman Raj Shah said Kavanaugh got into debt buying Nationals season tickets and playoff tickets for himself and friends.
In a report submitted to Congress on June 21, the GAO notes the federal deficit has continued to grow every year in the last few years. In fiscal year 2015, the federal deficit was $439 billion, in fiscal year 2016 it was $587 billion and in fiscal year 2017 it was $666 billion.
The Evening Star Grange was a sauna Thursday night, as the three Democrats vying for the two seats in the Vermont House answered questions about the legalization of marijuana, whether they supported a carbon tax, education funding and school consolidation and gun 'safety' - not control. With the retirement of longtime Rep. David Deen, D-Westminster, and the plan by Rep. Michael Mrowicki, D-Putney, to seek another term, newcomers Cindy Jerome and Nader Hashim, both of Dummerston, also announced their candidacies for the Windham-4 seat.