
Virginia airports get relief from CARES Act
CARES Act funding will go to provide relief to 47 airports across the Commonwealth.

CARES Act funding will go to provide relief to 47 airports across the Commonwealth.

A group of Democratic leaders is raising questions about reports that the White House has assembled technology and health care firms to establish a far-reaching national coronavirus surveillance system.

A group of senators are pushing for money in any future COVID-19 federal relief package to prop up news outlets. Any self-respecting news person would give you a terse two-word response to this overture: “Hell, no.”

Why June 10? What was Gov. Ralph Northam thinking with that date? Is he trying to prove he’s got a bigger, whatever, than President Trump or other governors?
Maybe he’s trying to ruin the June 9 Republican Senate primary. Turns out it’s innocuous.

The Senate voted Wednesday to pass a $2 trillion COVID-19 relief plan that provides for $1,200 in direct payments to most Americans, and includes billions of dollars in lending and grant programs designed to help businesses, workers and municipalities.

The Senate voted 90-8 Wednesday to approve a bill that ensures paid leave benefits to Americans pushed out of work due to the coronavirus shutdown.

The Trump administration is backing direct payments to American workers to help people cope with the economic shutdown with the national coronavirus response.

Several major internet service providers will take steps to accommodate the use of remote technologies that students, workers and public health officials will rely upon during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

President Trump’s proposal to cut payroll taxes through the end of the year would boost corporate revenues.

The Department of Homeland Security will release an additional 35,000 H-2B temporary nonagricultural work visas – a move that will benefit Virginia’s seafood processing industry.
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