The Manhattan Beach City Council Tuesday night unanimously approved an emergency loan program to help small businesses struggling to stay afloat through the pandemic.
The program will allocate $250,000, drawn from the city’s general fund reserves, which will be disbursed in $10,000 loans to businesses that employ 50 people or fewer. Highest priority will be given to independently owned businesses that have been closed due to COVID-19, and then to independent businesses that have been restricted due to the pandemic.
Councilperson Steve Napolitano said the city had to take action because the federal government has failed to do so.
“This isn’t just some well-intentioned program to make us feel good and get our names out there,” Napolitano said. “This is about supporting the businesses that we know and love and want to stay in business. We’re stepping in the shoes of what others should be doing and they’re not. The federal government should have another stimulu
Despite cool weather and a County ban on outdoor dining, downtown Manhattan’s out door dining areas were busy on Sunday.
Diners with to-go orders fill tables in Metlox Plaza on Sunday. The County ban on outdoor dining applied to restaurants, but not public seating areas. Photos
Manhattan Beach last Thursday answered the pleas of downtown restaurant owners and announced they would be allowed to “repurpose” their outdoor dining areas to allow public seating for diners with take-out orders. Restaurant service at the dining area tables would not be allowed.
The action came in the face of a new order by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health that shut down outdoor dining for at least three weeks as part of a broader effort to counter the surge of COVID-19 cases. That restriction was struck down by Superior Court Judge James Chalfant, who on Tuesday issued a tentative decision that said, in part, county officials at the LA Department of Public Health �
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Ari Berman, the relentless defender of the franchise against all enemies foreign and domestic, has been suggesting on the electric Twitter machine that none of the 126 Republicans who have signed onto the Covenant of Sedition should be seated when the new Congress opens in January. This I find intriguing because, after all, this whole election was corrupt because people said mean things to other people. Rep. Bill Pascrell, whose pursuit of the president s tax returns has been dogged, does Berman one better. He would refuse to seat them based on Section III of the 14th Amendment. It reads as follows:
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new study of fossilised bones reveals that dinosaurs roamed our shores about 200 million years ago. The bones, which were found along Co Antrimâs eastern coast in the 1980s, are the only dinosaur remains to have ever been recorded on the island of Ireland.
Since their discovery, palaeontologists had long suspected that they were of dinosaur origin but now dinosaur experts have finally identified them as such.
âPeople knew about them but they had never been formally described. Now itâs official. We know what these dinosaurs are,â says Dr Mike Simms, a curator and palaeontologist at National MuseumsNorthern Ireland and lead author on the study.