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“It’s definitely been quiet.”
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s lobbying firm, Christie 55 Solutions, stopped lobbying for all eight of its clients earlier this year. | Scott Olson/Getty Images
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When Donald Trump took office in 2017, the handful of Washington lobbyists who could boast ties to him were inundated with calls from potential clients.
Six months into the Biden administration, several Trump-connected firms together are down millions of dollars in fees compared to a year earlier; one prominent firm with Trumpworld ties has collapsed, and another has withdrawn from Washington entirely.
“It’s definitely been quiet,” said Brad Gerstman, whose firm, Gotham Government Relations & Communications, once represented Trump in New York and helped orchestrate Trump’s 2015 campaign announcement before opening a Washington office after he won.
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Families in a quandary
It is very disappointing that so many UK families will be unable to visit Malta in their school summer holidays. Malta has done brilliantly with its COVID-19 vaccination programme and the UK is not far behind. But the vaccination is not available to children under 18, except in very special circumstances, so families with children aged between 12 and 17 will be unable to visit.
It seemed as if there was one reliable and attractive destination for UK families this summer but this is no longer the case.
Their disappointment will, no doubt, be echoed by the many restaurants, hotels and other tourist businesses hoping for a good summer season and which have just lost a large share of their potential market.
Pensacola residents could see a stormwater fee increase for the next two years
Pensacola residents could see an increase in their annual stormwater fee charged by the city.
The Pensacola City Council voted unanimously Thursday night to take the first action required to increase the stormwater fee that appears on residents property tax bills each year.
The fee pays for the city s stormwater ponds, street sweeping and the maintenance of stormwater drainage systems that prevent pollution and trash from flowing into waterways during a storm.
The stormwater fee, which ranges from $31 to $110, is calculated by the city using what s called an equivalent stormwater unit based on the square footage of impervious material on a property.
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Heavy rains have dispersed highly toxic dioxins throughout the Sanders Beach neighborhood for years. Now, residents hope the Biden administration will help put an end to their misery.
April 25, 2021
Neighbors Kelly Hagen (left) and Dixie Wilkinson stand in their respective yards on April 22, 2021 in Pensacola, Florida. Their homes are located next to the now closed American Creosote Works, now an EPA Superfund site which is causing environmental problems for the area and health problems for the residents who live near it. Credit: Dan Anderson
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