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SALEM â It could soon get a lot harder to access public records from the Pendleton Unmanned Aerial Systems Range.
State Sen. Bill Hansell, R-Athena, has introduced a bill that would exempt the city of Pendleton from disclosing records produced by the test range if making them public âwould cause a competitive disadvantage to the test range or its users.â The exemption covers a broad range of records, âincluding but not limited to pricing, intellectual property and customer records.â
At a Feb. 11 Senate Committee on Labor and Business hearing, Pendleton City Manager Robb Corbett called passage of the bill âcrucialâ before introducing Steve Chrisman, the cityâs airport manager and economic development director.
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Senior Filipino cabinet official flayed for plan to swap nurses for more vaccines
25 Feb 2021
Manolo B. Jara,
Correspondent
A senior cabinet official on Wednesday came under heavy fire for his proposal to secure more coronavirus vaccines from Germany and the United Kingdom in exchange for their exemption from an order limiting the foreign deployment of Filipino frontline medical workers especially nurses.
Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives gave Secretary Silvestre Bello of the Department of Labour and Employment a severe verbal drubbing following revelations that he already talked with the UK ambassador to the Philippines on the issue.
The Maui News
A bill that aims to provide unemployment insurance relief to Hawaii employers is heading to Gov. David Ige’s desk after unanimously passing both chambers of the state Legislature.
If signed by Ige, House Bill 1278 would help to contain the economic fallout from COVID-19 by temporarily reducing the unemployment insurance contribution rates, the Legislature said Wednesday.
“This measure is critical in helping to protect employers from facing higher tax rates at a time when they can least afford it,” said Sen. Brian Taniguchi of Oahu’s District 11 and chairman of the Senate Committee on Labor, Culture and the Arts. “Without any legislative intervention, the unemployment tax rate schedule would be set to the highest rate at Schedule H and many businesses would continue to struggle while trying to survive this pandemic.”