Page 1 - aruba-today-20220930

Some of Peru’s Best Flavors are
Firing up Palm Beach
Friday
September 30, 2022
T: 582-7800
www.arubatoday.com
facebook.com/arubatoday
instagram.com/arubatoday
Page 8
A r u b a ’ s O N L Y E n g l i s h n e w s p a p e r
Aruba’s ONLY English newspaper
States spend federal COVID aid on National Archive with

roads, buildings, seawalls innovative project

to make our cultural

heritage more accessible

Page 7

Preparations underway

A jogger runs along a sea wall, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, in Miami.. for the Month for Older
Associated Press

Associated Press ments to respond to the virus, rebuild their Persons
Standing 14 stories tall, the Docking State economies and shore up their finances.
Office Building is one of Kansas’ larg- But it came as state tax revenues already
est and oldest state workplaces. It’s also were rebounding, leaving many states
largely vacant, despite a prime location with record surpluses and enviable deci-
across from the Capitol. So Kansas officials sions about what to do with all the money.
are planning to spend $60 million of feder- Relatively little of the federal aid has gone
al pandemic relief funds to help finance its toward traditional public health purposes,
demolition and replace it with a slimmed- according to an Associated Press review
down, three-story building designed to of reports filed by all 50 states and the Dis-
host meetings and events. State officials trict of Columbia. Significantly more has
categorized the project as a “public health gone toward public infrastructure. States
service” in a report to the U.S. Treasury are pouring money into water, sewer and
Department laying out their plans for the high-speed internet projects, as specifical-
money. Though that may be a stretch, it’s ly envisioned by the law. But the AP found
likely fine under the American Rescue Plan that they’re also spending billions of dollars
act — a sweeping law signed by President on roads, bridges, sidewalks, airports, rail
Joe Biden last year that provides broad lines and buildings at college campuses
flexibility for $350 billion of aid to states and and government agencies — justifying all
local governments.The aid was promoted of it under the federal government’s gen-
by Democrats in Congress as an unprece- erous flexibility. Page 7
dented infusion for cash-strapped govern- Continued on Page 2