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Feb 12, 2021
No, COBOL Is Not a Dead Language - While there may not have been enough COBOL programmers to fix New Jersey s unemployment system, the language still runs the world s economy.
Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector
photo by: Screen capture of Kansas Legislature YouTube by Kansas Reflector
Scott Schneider, who represents the Kansas Restaurant and Hospitality Association, tells lawmakers during a hearing Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, that governments should understand they have to compensate businesses when wielding their policing powers.
TOPEKA Wichita restaurant owner John Arnold says it is difficult to avoid feeling vilified by government restrictions placed on businesses in the interest of public health.
The pandemic treated his industry differently, Arnold explained to lawmakers during a hearing Tuesday in the House. Restaurants were forced to close as COVID-19 first crept across the state, and only allowed to reopen with limited capacity.
Celia Llopis-Jepsen / Kansas News Service
Originally published on February 11, 2021 2:14 pm
The pandemic caused counties across the state to issue varying levels of business shutdown orders meant to slow the spread of a life-threatening virus.
Now businesses that lost their ability to make money during the pandemic want a tax refund for the time they were forced to hang “closed” signs.
Lawmakers heard competing arguments about property tax rebates this week.
Businesses say the closures put them on the brink of shutting down for good. Local governments warn they don’t have the resources to be offering mass tax refunds.
A pending bill is a first step in a larger discussion looming before lawmakers: Should either the state or local governments be required to compensate the businesses that public officials ordered to close during the pandemic?
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