Eagle View Technologies, Bothell, Washington, has been assigned a patent developed by two co-inventors for “systems and methods for performing a risk management assessment of a property.” The co-inventors are Chris Pershing, Redmond, Washington, and Randall Ishikawa, Arroyo Grande, California. Written by Sudarshan Harpal; edited by Sudarshan Harpal.
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April 27– BRIGHTON TWP.– One of Pennsylvania’s largest health-care systems has purchased the former headquarters of Michael Baker International in Brighton Township. St. Barnabas Health Systems, based in Gibsonia, Allegheny County, purchased the two-story building and the 175 acres it sits on along Dutch Ridge Road. The terms of the sale were not disclosed by…
April 28– The Federal Emergency Management Agency has officially stated that Valley City can maintain a section of it floodwall on the city’s southeast side. Heidi Heitkamp, D- N.D., announced Wednesday that the federal agency would not require Valley City to reroute a portion of a floodwall completed in 2016. FEMA was considering requiring Valley City to move…
A building in Azerbaijan that once was intended to be a Trump-branded hotel has caught fire. Azerbaijani firefighters were on the scene of the fire at the 33-story building in in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku early Saturday afternoon. The Trump Organization canceled its licensing deal for the hotel in December 2016, one month after Donald Trump was elected U.S. president.
The owner of an abandoned Nevada mine has suspended the normal bottled water deliveries it’s been providing neighbors since tests in 2004 confirmed a plume of groundwater contaminated area wells. The move comes two months after federal regulators backed off plans to add the mine to the list of the most toxic U.S. Superfund sites. A Native American tribe suing Atlantic Richfield says its decision underscores fears that scuttling the proposed listing will slow cleanup efforts.
The Texas Democratic Party issued the following statement by Chair Gilberto Hinojosa as Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, along with 20 other Republican attorneys general, sued to stop the Affordable Care Act. “This another savage attempt from Republican Ken Paxton to strip healthcare away from Texans. “Ken Paxton is way out of line with Texas…
This bill meets the needs of our regional airports and helps prepare us for future natural disasters in Florida’s 17th District and I was proud to support it on the floor today. ” The Act also tackles the rising costs of disasters in the United States by prioritizing the Disaster Recovery Reform Act, which reforms FEMA’s response and recovery program, honing in on…
A building in Azerbaijan that once was intended to be a Trump-branded hotel has caught fire. Azerbaijani firefighters were on the scene of the fire at the 33-story building in in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku early Saturday afternoon. The Trump Organization canceled its licensing deal for the hotel in December 2016, one month after Donald Trump was elected U.S. president.
Maria Cantwell, D- Washington, ranking Democratic member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement regarding the Trump administration’s announcement to revise the well control rule:. On April 19, 2018, Senator Cantwell introduced legislation to protect American coasts from catastrophic oil spills.
April 28– Herman Friske, 91, does not like the state budget. The resident of the Katherine Luther Residential Health Care& Rehabilitation Center in Clinton has spent the past three years advocating for a measure that didn’t make the fiscal cut. Friske wants the state to raise the $50 personal needs allowance for nursing home residents on Medicaid for the first…
April 28– The next huge natural catastrophe to strike California might not be an earthquake. New research suggests that a major flood could inundate large swaths of California in the next few decades. The peer-reviewed research, which appeared in the journal Nature Climate Change, predicts that California’s average annual rainfall will remain fairly stable…
April 28– JEFFERSONVILLE– Keisha Reschar and her husband both work for the Clark County government. Her husband is supposed to make $32,000 a year as a Clark County corrections officer, but after he factors in taxes, Medicare, Social Security, life insurance, short-term disability insurance, a cancer and heart policy and– the pièce de résistance– a predicted $303…
The Small Business Administration’s Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release:. Director Tanya N. Garfield of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded Idaho private nonprofit organizations of the May 28, 2018, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic…
The Small Business Administration’s Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release:. Director Tanya N. Garfield of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Disaster Field Operations Center-West today reminded Idaho private nonprofit organizations of the May 28, 2018, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic…
The Pennsylvania Insurance Department issued the following news release:. Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman today reminded boat owners they need specific insurance for their watercraft, and neither their homeowners nor auto policies will cover most damage or liability resulting from claims involving a boat. But state waters can get crowded, as the…
The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies issued the following news release:. Those provisions, says the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, should be included in the Senate FAA bill. “In the limited time remaining on the congressional calendar in this election year, the Senate should take advantage of this opportunity to do the…
The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies issued the following news release:. The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has called on state insurance regulators to reconsider their efforts to collect demographic information from insurance companies about their boards, vendors, and CEOs. The survey, issued by regulators in…
At an event at a brownfields site and the future home of the Children’s Museum of Cheyenne, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced $1,425,000 in new Brownfields grants to state and local partners in Wyoming. Brownfields are properties where redevelopment or reuse is limited by the presence or potential presence of environmental…
At an event at a brownfields site and the future home of the Children’s Museum of Cheyenne, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced $1,425,000 in new Brownfields grants to state and local partners in Wyoming. Brownfields are properties where redevelopment or reuse is limited by the presence or potential presence of environmental…
