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Recovery grants help many small business owners stay afloat RITA LEBLEU, Lake Charles American Press May 15, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) The Southwest Louisiana Economic Development Alliance has helped over 100 small businesses through its Pathway to Small Business Recovery grant. The program was initially made possible by a $150,000 seed grant from Sempra Energy foundation. The Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana donated the second round of funds, and Cheniere Foundation donated $100,000 for the third round. Tina Higgins, Cruise Planners, is a full-service travel agent that plans cruises and land travel. Like more than 300 others, she did not receive the $3,000 grant when she submitted her application the first time around, but those applicants were considered during the next funding cycle. ....
The entrance to the Waste Control Specialists site, where radioactive and hazardous waste is disposed of and stored in Andrews County. Credit: Eli Hartman for The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A bill opposed by both environmental and some oil interests that would have given a nuclear waste company in West Texas a big break on state fees failed to receive a vote in the Texas House before a key deadline on Monday. It was sent back to committee and has failed to be voted out a second time before Monday, the last day House committees could report measures and have a chance of passing. ....
AUSTIN One of the Legislature s stoutest defenders of the Texas oil industry and several of the state s top environmental organizations teamed up to deliver a likely death blow to a measure designed to give a financial break to a radioactive waste disposal company. The legislation, House Bill 2692, was critically wounded last week when state Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, found a procedural flaw that prevented it from coming to the House floor for a vote. It was sent back to a House committee to fix the flaw, but the panel on Monday declined to give it a second chance. The bill was designed to grant Waste Control Specialists, the company that operates the low-level radioactive waste disposal site in Andrews County, a break on surcharges and fees levied by the state on the revenue it takes in to handle the waste. The company said it needs the breaks to remain competitive in the face of out-of-state competition. ....
When Bruce Waller left Marietta, Georgia, in 2012 as a young man, he knew it would be hard to put together a job and a place to live but he wasn t ready for Asheville s version of hard. In Marietta, he had been training with the Army National Guard, and housing was covered. Before, when he lived in Richmond, Virginia, he paid $500 for rent and utilities, for a whole house he shared with friends. In Asheville, Waller also paid $500, but it was for an apartment shared with two friends. Water and utilities were not included. It was ridiculous for what we paid in rent, he said. We didn t control the heat, the floors were wood and not insulated. ....
AUSTIN Contentious legislation that would have given financial breaks to the company that operates the storage site for low-level radioactive waste in remote West Texas was derailed Wednesday on a procedural technicality in the state House. The maneuver to knock down House Bill 2692 short-circuited what had been expected to be a freewheeling floor debate over whether the bill would have provided a backdoor to bringing the most dangerous waste from decommissioned nuclear power plants to Texas. The legislation s author, state Rep. Brooks Landgraf, a Republican who represents the site in Andrews County, insisted it would expressly ban such waste from Texas. And he said he was mystified that anyone would interpret it otherwise. ....