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Businesses unable to find workers urging Gov Abbott to stop extra unemployment aid

Nearly 40 Texas business owners wrote a letter to the governor, stating their case for stopping the boosted in benefits.

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Texas Association of Business asks Gov Abbott to stop accepting, distributing weekly $300 in federal aid

Texas Association of Business asks Gov. Abbott to stop accepting, distributing weekly $300 in federal aid Employers believe that supplemental UI benefit payments from Washington is disincentivizing work and resulting in many good Texas jobs going unfilled. Author: Reagan Roy Updated: 12:02 PM CDT May 13, 2021 TYLER, Texas The Texas Association of Business, along with 37 business associations and chambers of commerce, sent a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott and the Chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission, Bryan Daniel, asking them to consider ending Texas’s participation in the supplemental federal UI payment which stacks on top of standard unemployment insurance. Employers are citing the $300 additional weekly federal stimulus payment as the biggest barrier to fill their job openings and some states have already announced they are ending participation in this program.

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City of Austin announces new Medical Director/Health Authority

Medical Director/Health Authority The City of Austin has identified Desmar Walkes, M.D. as the City’s next Medical Director/Health Authority. Dr. Walkes will begin her new duties on May 31, 2021. Dr. Walkes has 33 years of experience in health care as a family practitioner, medical authority, medical director, and in administrative medicine. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology with honors from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada and her Medical Doctor degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Dr. Walkes completed a surgical internship at Baylor College of Medicine and, for many years, has participated in medical mission trips to Central and South America, Asia, and Africa.

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Bastrop ISD Place 2 candidates participate in forum before election

Incumbent Bastrop school board member Kellye Seekatz and challenger Joseph B. Thompson faced off in a candidate forum Monday night and discussed their priorities for the district over the next four years. The Place 2 race is the only contested school board seat in the May 1 election. Rick Rivera, who is running for the Place 1 seat, is running unopposed. Rivera was appointed to the Place 1 seat in January to replace James Allen, who resigned in December after accepting a job in Arkansas. During the hour-long candidate forum Monday, Seekatz and Thompson discussed a wide range of school district-related issues including improvement plans, the $183.7 million school bond proposal also on the ballot and priority issues over the next four years.

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