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Cities are getting a windfall from Biden s COVID relief bill. Now how are they going to spend it? Joey Garrison, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON Mayors are accustomed to juggling priorities with limited city revenue: Park upgrades or staff pay increases? Street paving or that long-awaited new community center?
The crunch tightened during a global pandemic.
But an infusion of $350 billion in federal COVID-19 rescue funds now headed to local and state governments this week sets up a new – and welcomed – dilemma: how to spend a financial windfall.
Two months after President Joe Biden signed his American Rescue Plan into law, the Treasury Department on Monday made available a historic amount of direct aid to thousands of city and county governments. Local governments are in line to collectively receive more than $110 billion over two years in addition to $125 billion for the reopening of public schools. Another $195.3 billion
States, cities to receive first chunk of $350 billion in aid this week from COVID stimulus passed in March Joey Garrison, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON – State, city and county governments this week will receive their first infusion of direct aid from $350 billion in emergency funds approved in the American Rescue Plan, two months after President Joe Biden signed the COVID-19 relief package into law.
The Biden administration launched an online portal Monday that will allow local and state governments to access their share of funds from the Treasury Department. The amount allocated for each state and municipality was determined by unemployment data.
LAS CRUCES - A Las Cruces man who admitted to killing his mom with a sword in 2014 was found not guilty of first-degree murder by a Doña Ana County jury on Friday.
The jury was also asked to consider a second-degree murder charge, but couldn t reach a unanimous decision. Seven of the 12 jurors voted for a guilty verdict on that charge.
Because of the hung jury, Third Judicial District Court Judge Conrad Perea ruled a mistrial. Hunt will remain in jail until he s tried again for second-degree murder.
Hunt s sanity has been a question within court proceedings in the nearly seven years since he admitted to slaying his mom, 56-year-old Lisa Cano, July 18, 2014 at their home on the 5800 block of Organ Peak Drive.
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