Yearly Archives: 2015
Pallone Applauds Successful Interior Department Lease Sale for Wind Energy Development Off of New...
Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, applauded the Department of the Interior’s announcement that it has awarded two leases for commercial wind energy development of 343,833 acres off of the New Jersey coast
Law Library to Host Free Estate Planning, Bankruptcy Seminars
The Clark County Law Library and Nevada Legal Services are hosting new classes in estate planning and bankruptcy/consumer rights during November and December. The classes are free but seating space is limited. Participants must call (702) 455-4696 to register for the classes.
Report Released Analyzing the HOME Investment Partnerships Program’s Economic Impact in All 50 States
Recently the HOME Coalition released the Building HOME: The HOME Investment Partnerships Program's Impact on America's Families and Communties. The report is available here. This first-of-its-kind report analyzes the program’s economic impact in all 50 states and features over 100 HOME Success Stories from communities across the nation
Report Released Analyzing the HOME Investment Partnerships Program’s Economic Impact in All 50 States
Recently the HOME Coalition released the Building HOME: The HOME Investment Partnerships Program's Impact on America's Families and Communties. The report is available here. This first-of-its-kind report analyzes the program’s economic impact in all 50 states and features over 100 HOME Success Stories from communities across the nation.
SCHUMER: WITH FRIGID WINTER TEMPERATURES FAST APPROACHING, MORE THAN 170 LONG ISLAND VETERANS WHO...
The week of Veterans Day, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer urged his colleagues in Congress to pass legislation that will improve programs that provide support services to homeless veterans and their families. With frigid winter temperatures fast approaching, Schumer said that 174 veterans across Long Island, from Glen Cove to Greenport, who do not have permanent residences could be left out in the cold
Udall, Heinrich Announce $9 Million in Water and Waste Infrastructure Improvements for Colonias in...
U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced more than $9 million in grants and loans for the Garfield Mutual Domestic Water Consumers and Sewage Works Association and La Luz Mutual Domestic Water Consumers and Mutual Sewer Works Association to build and improve water and wastewater infrastructure for colonias in Southern New Mexico.
Murray praises passage of landmark housing legislation
Mayor Ed Murray today congratulated the City Council on passage of the Grand Bargain that will support the construction of thousands of new affordable homes in neighborhoods across Seattle through a mandatory contribution to affordable housing on new commercial construction and multi-family residential developments
City Receives National Digital Inclusion Best Practices Award
The National League of Cities, Next Century Cities, and Google Fiber awarded the City of Seattle one of their inaugural Digital Inclusion Leadership awards. The award was presented to the City of Seattle's Department of Information Technology's Community Technology Program on Thursday, November 5th, at the National League of Cities' Congress of Cities event in Nashville, Tennessee
Deputy Mayor Glen, NYCEDC, JEMB Realty, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and Local Leaders Announce Brand...
Announcement Follows NYCEDC President Maria Torres-Springer’s Speech Identifying Need for 60 Million Square Feet of Commercial Office Space by 2025; Brooklyn Tech Triangle Coalition Report Calling for Additional Commercial Space in Brooklyn’s Tech Triangle
Governor Hogan’s Maryland Business Recovery Program Invests Nearly $1.3 Million to Help Baltimore Businesses...
Tops in Cellular, a mobile electronics and accessories store in the city’s Highlandtown community, is open for business thanks in part to a Hogan administration program established to help business owners recover from the civil unrest in Baltimore this spring
TESORO CONTRIBUTES $5.3 MILLION TO HOUSING INCENTIVE FUND
Tesoro Corporation today announced a substantial contribution to the North Dakota Housing Incentive Fund (HIF). Company representatives presented Gov. Jack Dalrymple with a check for $5.3 million, the single-largest contribution in the program’s history, to support affordable housing projects in Bismarck, Mandan, Dickinson and Watford City. Tesoro’s contribution has pushed the state program to more than 70 percent of its $30 million capitalization goal
$1.5 MILLION GRANT TO ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE (EPRI) ADVANCES FORESTRY AS A NUTRIENT...
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (Endowment) awarded a $1.5 million grant to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to integrate forestry as a best management practice on farmland and reduce nutrient runoff into waterways in the Ohio River Basin. The project has important implications for water quality and drinking water in the Ohio River Basin and potentially across the country
$111,000 CDBG funds awarded for water/wastewater project
The Nebraska Department of Economic Development (DED) today awarded $111,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding to the Village of Gilead to pursue a project in the Water/Wastewater category.
MERS’ Role as Mortgagee Upheld Again
MERSCORP Holdings, Inc. today announced that the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming granted a motion to dismiss a wrongful foreclosure suit, holding that use of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS) as mortgagee of record does not split the mortgage from the promissory note or render the mortgage invalid and the note unsecured
Governor Announces Appointments
Governor Bruce Rauner announced today he has appointed an Inspector General of the Illinois Tollway, and made judicial appointments to the Illinois Court of Claims and the Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board
Consumers Energy Commemorates Final Freighter Delivery to B.C. Cobb Plant
Consumers Energy today highlighted nearly 70 years of service and looked ahead to continued commercial shipping for the Port of Muskegon as the final Great Lakes coal freighter arrived at the B.C. Cobb Plant
Safety First: Consumers Energy’s Hunting Policy Works to Protect Employees and Neighbors
Consumers Energy is reminding hunters making plans to tag a deer on Michigan’s Nov. 15 firearm opener that hunting is not allowed on its property, with the exception of its hydro properties in the northern Lower Peninsula
MEDIA ADVISORY/PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: WSSC is Winter Ready
See What it Takes to Close a Valve and Repair a Broken Water Main, Maintenance Trucks and Heavy Equipment Also on Display. Aging infrastructure plus cold weather equals an increase in water main breaks. That’s a fact, and that’s why WSSC is winter ready
EPA Awards New Great Lakes Restoration Funding for Projects in the Clinton River Area...
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of new funding for major Great Lakes Restoration Initiative projects in the Clinton River Area of Concern totaling nearly $20 million.
Murkowski, Upton, Whitfield Call on FERC to Update Electricity Market Policies
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Reps. Fred Upton, R-Mich., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., chairman of the House Energy and Power Subcommittee, sent
