State awards $76m in development grants
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The Massachusetts office of Economic Development is giving out $76 million in grants to 21 development projects, including $10 million to Columbus Center, a long-delayed hotel, residential, and retail project that is to straddle the Massachusetts Turnpike between the Back Bay and South End.
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By North County Times, Escondido, Calif.  Feb. 1--ESCONDIDO -- The city of Escondido's Community Development  Commission has been awarded an $800,000 state grant to assist in the  development of affordable rental apartment complexes for seniors, state  officials announced Wednesday.
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PHILADELPHIA - The state averted disaster by winning federal approval of more than $1 billion in Medicaid funding over the next four years, but there could be more problems in the future, Gov.
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By Anonymous  The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service has made available up to $800,000 for projects in Colorado through Conservation Innovation Grants in fiscal year 2007.
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The government is offering $968  million in grants to help state and local public safety  agencies buy sophisticated radios and technology for  communications during disasters, the Commerce Department said  on Wednesday.
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The state's bid for leadership in the emerging field of nanotechnology got a boost yesterday when the National Science Foundation awarded a $12.4 million five-year grant to a consortium, led by Northeastern University, to create an engineering center to develop tools and processes for building nanoscale devices.
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Legislative leaders approved $591 million in state spending Monday to restore health care for the needy but let deep cutbacks in the Children&#39;s Health Insurance Program stand.
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Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and legislative leaders authorized $7.5 million Wednesday to help rebuild this tornado-damaged state, where deadly twisters killed 12 people and leveled a farming town last month.
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Oct. 22 -- The US Department of Energy has awarded a $235 million grant to help fund the development of a clean, advanced technology coal-fired power plant near Orlando, Fla.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 1  /PRNewswire/ -- Governor Edward G. Rendell today said small businesses in Pennsylvania will be better able to become more energy efficient and help improve air quality with new state grants totaling more than $185,000.
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By TOM DAYKIN  A $70 million development proposed for the Park East area won approval Monday from a County Board committee, but only after supervisors voted to add a new level to the county's approval process for such proposals.
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By Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 15--Gov. Jim Doyle's proposal to provide more funding for a state land purchase program will heap an estimated $1.6 billion in new costs on taxpayers in the next 10 years of the initiative.
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Nearly eight months after it was hired by the state, a consulting company in charge of dispensing billions in federal aid to people whose homes were damaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita has received 101,000 applications but handed out fewer than 300 grants.
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The state of Virginia and Fairfax County each pledged $600,000 to entice International Business Machines Corp. to bring 1,250 high-paying new government contracting jobs to Fairfax.
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Massachusetts and Texas won $2 million grants from the US Department of Energy yesterday to help fund centers that will test the next generation of giant turbine blades, setting up a competition between the two states for leadership in the emerging field of wind technology.
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Secretary for Resources Mike Chrisman will announce grants totaling  $32.7 million at an awards ceremony June 28 to help fund 35 statewide  river parkway projects. The event will begin at 10 a.m. at Middle  Sunrise Park at Sunrise Boulevard and South Bridge Street in Rancho  Cordova.
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The Department of Water Resources, Division of Planning and Local  Assistance, has released its 2007 Proposal Solicitation Package seeking  projects to share $10 million in CALFED grants.