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many of their Democratic colleagues to send a letter to SBA urging them to reopen the application portal before āmore independent businesses are forced to shutter permanently or file for bankruptcy.ā SBA announced it would reopen the portal on April 24 and the Rialto Theatre was one of the venues that applied for funding. See KELLY, P6
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en. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz) visited the Rialto Theatre this week to highlight federal funding designed to get local music venues open again. The federal government allocated more than $16.2 billion to the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant for live venues, live performing arts organizations, mu-
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seums and movie theatres, as well as live venue promoters, theatrical producers and talent representatives. But when the small Business Administration opened the portal for the first-come, first-serve program on April 8, the demand from venue owners and other eligible participants crashed the system. Two weeks later, Kelly and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz) joined
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he Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to approve a $10 million plan to fund early education scholarships for low-income families at last weekās meeting. On Feb. 16, the county approved a measure to allocate $10 million for the upcoming fiscal year budget to fund full or partial scholarships to parents who wish to enroll their 3- to 4-year-old children (or 5-year-olds not eligible for kindergarten) in high-quality early education programs. The scholarship program works to help low-income families find reliable and affordable childcare. Itās also designed to address the decline and loss of early childhood programs during the pandemic.
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