Tiny homes may be solution for Orange County housing crisis
Orange County planners outlined a variety of strategies Tuesday for county commissioners to consider as the board searches for answers to boost lagging home construction, considered to be at the root of the region’s deepening housing crisis.
5 ways to support Small Business Saturday
It all comes at you so quickly: One minute, you’re making grocery lists and setting the menu for Thanksgiving, and then, in the blink of an eye, the holiday has arrived, only to be followed by Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday -- and then your tree goes up and Christmas morning is here.
Mississippi's attorney general has no plan to prosecute Carolyn Bryant Donham over role in Emmett Till lynching, aide says
Mississippi's top legal official has no plan to prosecute Carolyn Bryant Donham, whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, an aide said Friday.
cbsnews.comNFL joins effort to add flag football to 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles
Troy Vincent, the league's executive vice president of football operations, will work alongside International Federation of American Football president Pierre Trochet as co-chairs of the "Vision28" group, an effort to add flag football to the Los Angeles Games, the NFL announced Wednesday. Flag football is currently making its debut at The World Games, the international sporting event featuring a litany of non-Olympic sports. The NFL's reason for joining the push to put flag football in the Olympics seems pretty obvious. Flag football won't be the only sport under consideration for addition to the Los Angeles Games. Under World Games rules, flag football is played 5-on-5 with no contact and on a 50-yard by 25-yard field, with 10-yard end zones.
wftv.comIowa, Texas Republicans hail benefits from Biden infrastructure bill they opposed
“Since the bill was signed into law, this money was going to be spent regardless. If there’s federal money on the table she is, of course, going to do everything she can to make sure it is reinvested in Iowa,” Seid said in a statement. “That’s why she worked with a bipartisan group of her colleagues in asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prioritize NESP construction along the Upper Mississippi River.”
washingtonpost.comSeminole County commissioners to approve nearly $3 million to help homeless shelter
Seminole County homelessness Commissioners are set to vote on spending nearly $3 million of American Rescue Plan money to help the homeless. (wftv.com)SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — Commissioners are set to vote on spending nearly $3 million of American Rescue Plan money to help the homeless. County officials said the number of people who are out on the streets was made worse by the pandemic. The only emergency homeless shelter in Seminole County has about 115 beds for men, women and children in Seminole County. Commissioners are expected to approve that $2.8 million for the shelter next Tuesday at their meeting.
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