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"Although the Biden administration sought to kick-start coronavirus screening in schools with $10 billion in American Rescue Plan funding, few states and schools have implemented widespread screening. U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier, D-Wash, has demanded answers about how the money is being used for school testing.”
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced the recipients of this year's Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grants. This is an incredibly competitive program, and not only did Wenatchee win, but it won big – $92.4 million. That's the largest INFRA grant awarded anywhere in the country this year. Maybe it's because the city has applied for this funding for four years now, but this announcement felt especially momentous.
WENATCHEE - Wenatchee's Apple Capital Loop Project has been awarded a $92.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The Apple Capital Loop project is a network of projects completing an 11-mile loop that serves as the backbone for highway, transit and active modes of transportation supported by a number of regional partners including the city of Wenatchee, Chelan and Douglas counties, WSDOT, Chelan-Douglas Regional Port Authority, LINK Transit and the Chelan-Douglas Transportation Council.
As the summer heat adds to the West's significant drought, 8th District Representative Kim Schrier continues to point to the National Prescribed Fire Act as a possible solution to the massive fires in recent years.
Schrier said her bill would require the Forest Service and Department of the Interior to increase their controlled burn acreage by providing them both with $300 million annually for the work.
The newly proposed federal MAPLand Act would provide resources to digitize map records as part of an effort to improve access to public lands.
Representatives Blake Moore (R-UT), Ross Fulcher (R-ID), Joe Neguse (D-CO) and Kim Schrier (D-WA) recently introduced the Modernizing Access to our Public Land Act to digitize federal land mapping records.
"There are people that desperately want to know where they can go and enjoy these public lands," Congressman Blake Moore said.
8th District Representative Kim Schrier gave an update recently on some of her party's legislative priorities, among them being the For the People Act.
Schrier said that false claims of fraud in the last election are being used to justify creating laws that make it harder for people to vote.
"We want to make sure that everybody that is eligible to vote can cast their vote safely and that their vote is legitimately counted," explained Schrier.
Congresswoman Kim Schrier saw many elements of her proposed bill, the State Broadband Office Innovation Pilot, implemented by the U.S. Department of Commerce in its December spending bill.
Schrier said her bill was based on the Washington State Broadband Office's success leveraging partnerships to improve internet access, speed and capacity.
One of the major concepts to the legislation is that the more infrastructure decisions happen locally, the better those decisions usually are.
BONNEY LAKE, Wash. — Western Washington fire officials and lawmakers are urging residents to get prepared ahead of wildfire season.
Washington Representatives Kim Schrier and Marilyn Strickland hosted a press conference Wednesday with Pierce County fire officials who emphasized the importance of creating a "defensible space" around homes ahead of a projected warm and dry summer.
WENATCHEE — U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier of Washington's 8th District stopped by the NCWLIFE studios this week to talk about wildfire suppression, federal earmarks, the Jan. 6 insurrection, and a host of other topics. High on the list for the Sammamish-based congressmember and pediatrician: The National Prescribed Fire Act of 2021, which funds and mandates prescribed burning and forest thinning on federal lands.