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Winrock International and the Arkansas Economic Development Commission launch Opportunity Arkansas, a website with information about investing in Opportunity Zones.
The federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 created Opportunity Zones as economic development and job creation tools for distressed communities. Governors of each state nominated low-income census tracts to become Opportunity Zones, certified by the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury through the Internal Revenue Service.
Once an area is designated an Opportunity Zone, new investments in that community qualify for preferential tax treatment. In Arkansas, 85 census tracts were certified as Opportunity Zones.
The Opportunity Arkansas website is an online source for citizens, community leaders, investors and others to learn about, search for and submit Opportunity Zone projects in Arkansas. The site is funded by the Delta Regional Authority and the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.
Survey looks to help determine which parts of La. need resources to improve broadband The Delta Regional Authority (DRA) is launching the Delta Broadband Mapping Project. (Source: KEYC News Now) By Josh Auzenne | May 10, 2021 at 1:36 PM CDT - Updated May 10 at 5:13 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Louisiana citizens are being urged to fill out a survey to improve broadband coverage in rural areas across the state.
Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain said the information from the survey will help to create a map to determine which communities are in need of grants and other resources to improve broadband.
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INDIANOLA, Miss., May 8, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ Exhibits that focus on the last decade of B.B. King s life have been added to the award-winning museum that bears his name, and on June 5, 2021, the public is invited to an unveiling of the expansion that also includes the finished Memorial Garden, King s final resting place. Items acquired after King s death in 2015 that are part of the 4,500 s.f. addition include two of his personal automobiles a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow and a custom painted Chevy El Camino. The largest item inside the new space is King s tour bus, which was filled with the latest music technology and served as his home on the road. Other artifacts include King s most cherished guitar, a Les Paul given to him by Paul himself, as well as the last two Gibson Lucille guitars signed by King, which were carried on a riderless black horse in his funeral procession.
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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Launches IMPACT Research Grants to Help Underserved Patients Access Clinical Trials
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RYE BROOK, N.Y., May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) announced today the launch of the IMPACT (Influential Medicine Providing Access to Clinical Trials) research grants to increase enrollment of individuals from underrepresented communities in clinical trials. Clinical trials are vital to improving cancer treatment, giving newly diagnosed patients access to state-of-the-art therapies, and providing a lifeline when other treatments have failed. Yet, clinical trials overwhelmingly fail to represent certain patient populations such as ethnic and racial minorities and people in rural communities.
HENDERSON, Ky. What used to be the offices of Dotiki Mine will house a new training center for dislocated coal miners looking to become skilled in a new career.
Gov. Andy Beshear announced that $472,000 in grant money will transform the offices that were vacated when the Dotiki Mine closed in 2019 into the Western Kentucky Regional Training Center. Webster and Union counties applied for the funds together, a news release said.
Webster and Union counties were also awarded more than $350,000 from the Delta Regional Authority, making the total funding for this project more than $800,000.
The center will use old mine land to train coal miners in new careers following mine closures and job loss in the industry.