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South Wales Argus
6 days ago
- Business
- South Wales Argus
Monmouthshire council outlines support for community assets
Councillor Sara Burch who is responsible for rural affairs and tourism was asked if a community asset team could be set up to help advise communities wanting to take on buildings at risk of closure. She said: 'It would be wonderful for the council to support community led initiatives but I don't think we are in a position at the moment to be able to recruit a new team but fortunately we do have that expertise within the community development team that would be the first point of contact for anybody in the community wanting to set up any kind of new facility.' Rachel Buckler, Conservative councillor for Devauden, had asked at Monmouthshire County Council's May meeting if the cabinet member would set up the specialist team and highlighted how the The Star on the Hill at Llanvihangel Tor-y-Mynydd, in a remote part of Monmouthshire, had closed. Cllr Buckler said: 'I think it's so important to have a place where rural communities can gather. We know there has been an upsurge in farmers committing suicide due to the stresses and strains of trying to make a living.' She thanked Cllr Burch, who represents Cantref near Abergavenny, for her response and said she looked forward to discussing the issue with her further. Cllr Burch said as well as the council's community development team support is available from the Gwent Association of Voluntary Organisations and they can also call on experts including from Welsh Government funded Cwmpas which supports cooperatives. She also described the Plunkett Foundation as 'acknowledged experts' that have been supporting community run shops and pubs for more than one hundred years.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Yahoo
Mobile County sheriff speaks on ex-employee's arrest in connection with Gregory Jowers manhunt
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — For the first time, we are hearing from Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch after the arrest of an accused murderer and employee of the sheriff's office in connection with a Christmas Day homicide. Mobile, Alabama mom arrested in connection with Sage Park shooting 'My reaction was unacceptable, and my first words was finding the charges and put her in jail,' Burch said. Andrea Nettles is now a former employee of the sheriff's office. She is accused of hiding her boyfriend, a wanted fugitive, inside her home. The wanted fugitive is Gregory Jowers, he is accused of killing 63-year-old Tommy Fabian on Christmas Day. According to deputies, they found Fabian badly beaten inside his home on McLeod Road in Theodore. He was transported to the hospital and died from his injuries. A week after Fabian died, the Sheriff's office declared that Jowers was wanted for the murder. Jowers was arrested Monday during a standoff on Forest Oak Drive at Nettles' home. 'We don't know how long they were in a relationship whether it started after the Christmas Day murder or before,' Burch said. Nettles joined the sheriff's office in 2023 and worked part-time as a community resource officer, directing traffic at various schools. 'I can speak for the sheriff's office if you harbor a fugitive, or I guess decide to become personally involved with a criminal we don't want you at the sheriff's office and I will terminate you if I find out about it,' Burch said. Mobile convicted felon sentenced for possessing firearm Jowers is being held without bond, he is due back in court for an arraignment on Monday. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
CEOs Rush to Get Their Shipments From China While Trade Truce Lasts
SharkNinja Chief Executive Mark Barrocas was obsessively checking his news feed Sunday night, looking for any sign that the U.S. and China would reach a tariff deal. Early Monday morning, the news came: a 90-day reprieve in which the U.S. would lower tariffs to 30% from 145%. Did You Shoot Somebody in Self-Defense? There's an Insurance Policy for That Apple Considers Raising iPhone Prices, Without Blaming Tariffs AI Startup Perplexity's Valuation Surges to $14 Billion in New Funding Round Surprise U.S.-China Trade Deal Gives Global Economy Reprieve Now Might Be Time for an EV or Solar Panels, With Federal Tax Breaks at Risk Barrocas immediately instructed factories in China to release goods bound for the U.S., including coffee makers and the Ninja Slushie, a frozen-drink maker. 'We had hundreds of containers ready to leave China when the tariffs went into effect,' Barrocas said. 'Now, we'll be able to put them on a boat.' Businesses across the U.S. that rely on Chinese imports have been stuck for weeks, trying to figure out how to navigate the sky-high tariffs that President Trump imposed on Chinese goods in April. Companies have been raising prices, cutting back on spending and laying off workers, all in an effort to weather the new cost of tariffs. Now the truce could unstick the de facto trade embargo between the two countries. On Monday, U.S. stocks surged, the dollar jumped, and investors scaled back bets on Federal Reserve rate cuts. Many companies said they would quickly get their goods onto ships destined for American ports. Jennifer Burch, co-founder of Hightail Hair, learned about the tariff deal when her husband and co-founder Jon Dazeley came into the couple's bedroom Monday morning. 'That was definitely welcome news,' said Burch. Hightail had a shipment of nearly 4,000 of its hairnets, which attach to motorcycle helmets, waiting to leave China. 'We are going to try and get what we have out as soon as possible,' said Burch. While the temporary tariff relief was welcome news, businesses said they are still grappling with a higher tariff environment. Companies and trade associations warned of higher prices for the back-to-school and holiday shopping seasons. The Port of Los Angeles and other large U.S. ports said they don't expect a huge surge in imports from China. And some business leaders said the uncertainty of whipsawing tariffs is still too high to chart a course forward. 'In normal times, a 30% tariff on Chinese goods would be horrific news,' said Steve Greenspon, CEO of housewares company Honey-Can-Do International. 'Compared to 145% though, it's phenomenal news. But it's still going to mean higher prices and lower profits for companies.' Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka said companies that are reliant on holiday sales or sell critical goods such as healthcare products might use this moment to restock. 'But your refrigerator, outdoor patio set, regular stuff is not just going to come and flood the marketplace,' Seroka said. Many companies brought in extra inventory earlier this year to get ahead of new tariffs. Since Trump this year began waging a trade war against the country's biggest trade partners, U.S. importers have frozen or canceled billions of dollars worth of orders, potentially leaving them short-handed for the back-to-school or holiday sales periods. Ellen Brin, CEO of apparel company CMCBrands, has had two 40-foot container loads of sportswear and outerwear sitting in a Chinese factory for the past month. She now plans to get the goods on the water as soon as she can and work with customers to mitigate the tariff impact. The St. Louis company's largest Chinese manufacturing partner emailed as soon as American and Chinese officials announced the temporary deal. Brin's chief merchandiser told the manufacturer to start production on remaining purchase orders. Even with this morning's announcement, goods will arrive in the U.S. later than they normally would, said Brin, whose 79-year-old company has about 35 employees. 'If it had gone on any longer, it would have definitely hurt us,' Brin said, because the company's shipments would have been late for the fall season 'and customers would have gone elsewhere or had empty shelves.' Scott Johnson, president of Musgrave Pencil in Shelbyville, Tenn., was ready to send back an incoming shipment of Chinese-made slats—the wooden part of a pencil—when news of the trade deal broke. Even with the reprieve, Johnson said Musgrave's total tariff cost on Chinese slats will still be close to 60%. Musgrave is moving much of its slat-making to Vietnam, where the rate will be just over 13%, and Johnson said he has no plans to turn back. 'The ship has sailed, so to speak, on our moves to adjust our supply chain,' he said. The same is true for SharkNinja, which makes a range of household products from outdoor grills and vacuums to electric kettles and air fryers. Five years ago, the company made almost all its goods in China. But since tariffs went into effect during Trump's first term, the Massachusetts company has been moving production to other Asian countries such as Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia. By July, nearly 90% of its U.S. goods will be made outside of China, Barrocas said. SharkNinja has been scouting for a place to build a factory in the U.S. that could produce goods that don't require much labor, such as coolers and certain vacuum cleaners. Barrocas said the factory would have to be built from the ground up and goods wouldn't start rolling off production lines until the end of 2026 at the earliest. 'There are still a lot of questions,' Barrocas said. 'What happens at the end of 90 days?' 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Hamilton Spectator
12-05-2025
- Health
- Hamilton Spectator
Port Colborne residents to rally at Queen's Park in push to save urgent care services
With petitions in hand and a strong community backing, Port Colborne residents are preparing to travel to Queen's Park next week to demand the province protect local health-care services, including the urgent care centre at the former hospital. The day of action on May 14 is being organized with support of the Port Colborne Health Coalition and the Niagara Health Coalition. Residents are expected to board buses to Toronto to delivers thousands of petition signatures to the provincial legislature. At the heart of the campaign is a call for the government to halt cuts to urgent care and diagnostic services, and to support the development of a permanent health-care hub in the community. 'This was a big issue during the election,' said Jeff Burch, the NDP MPP for Niagara Centre, which includes Port Colborne. 'With this new parliament, we're just reinforcing that the voices of people in Port Colborne are heard and that's through petitions and people getting on the bus and letting the government know how strongly the people of Port Colborne feel.' Concerns have been growing not just in Port Colborne, but across much of Niagara in response to Niagara Health's regional redevelopment plan, which includes consolidating emergency and acute care services at three hospital sites. These sites would be located in St. Catharines, Welland and Niagara Falls, with the urgent care centres in Port Colborne and Fort Erie being closed. While Niagara Health has maintained the move is intended to improve efficiency and care, critics, including Burch and local coalitions, argue that it leaves smaller communities behind. 'The people of Port Colborne want to have a health-care hub of services that are there for people in their communities,' Burch said. 'The petitions that we're bringing to Queen's Park is to let the government know what the people want in the health care.' The City of Port Colborne has conducted consultations and surveys with residents on their thoughts regarding the possible closure of its urgent care centre, and the feedback echoes what Burch has heard throughout his campaign: that health care should be kept local. The issue also played a role in the recent federal election, which saw Port Colborne become part of the new Niagara South riding. The riding is now represented by Conservative MP Fred Davies, a former regional councillor for Port Colborne. While health care falls under provincial jurisdiction, Davies has publicly supported keeping the urgent care centre open as has his opponent, Liberal Vance Badawey. On April 10, at the Niagara South all-candidates forum, Davies voiced his support for the urgent care services to remain open in Fort Erie. 'We can't often get physicians that are your primary physician to be able to work in a hospital, we need to re-evaluate those rules,' he prefaced. 'Once we do that, we can bring more physicians into our community and Fort Erie deserves a 24-7 urgent care.' Davies' support for urgent care marks a rare point of contrast with his provincial counterparts. 'The federal and provincial Conservatives are not exactly aligned on every issue, so (I am) hoping to have a dialogue with Fred,' Burch said. 'I hope that he would support the urgent care in Port Colborne; the Conservative opponent I ran against in the (provincial) election (Port Colborne Mayor Bill Steele) was in favour of the Niagara Health plan, and I won every poll in Port Colborne.' Burch said his office is co-ordinating with the Port Colborne and Niagara Health Coalitions to support their efforts at Queen's Park. While the coalitions are organizing independently, he remains a strong supporter of their push to keep emergency services accessible. 'I'm certainly welcoming them to Queen's Park and doing anything that I can to facilitate their visit and if I can help them in any way to meet with ministers, then I'll certainly do that,' he said. Organizers expect a strong turnout for the May 14 Day of Action and hope it will send a clear message to Queen's Park: communities like Port Colborne deserve access to local, reliable health care. 'The people spoke pretty clearly in the election and they're speaking clearly next week,' Burch said. 'It's about tax dollars, that's what they want, they want health care close to home with their community.'
USA Today
11-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Contract details for OLB Jordan Burch, the Arizona Cardinals' third-round pick
Contract details for OLB Jordan Burch, the Arizona Cardinals' third-round pick Burch was one of four of the Cardinals' draft picks to sign before rookie minicamp. Here are his contract details. The draft is only two weeks old, but as most of the teams conducted rookie minicamps this weekend, there has been a cascade of draft choices signing their contracts, including the Arizona Cardinals. The Cardinals signed four of their draft picks, one of them being linebacker Jordan Burch, drafted in the third round with the 78th overall pick. Arizona Cardinals OLB Jordan Burch contract details Here are the specifics of edge rusher Jordan Burch's deal: As a third-round choice (78 overall), the total value of his four-year deal is $6,489,476 and includes a signing bonus of $1,359,620. His salary cap charge for 2025 is $1,179,905. With a minimum base salary of $840,000 this year, Burch does have higher than the minimum salaries in the last three years of the contract. Those minimums are $1.005 million in 2026, $1.12 million in 2027 and $1.235 million in 2028. Burch will be paid salaries of $1,134,976 next year; $1,429,952 in 2027 and $1,724,928 in 2028. He has a full split for this year, which means his salary would decrease to $490,000 if he is on injured reserve. Burch (6-4, 279) played three seasons at South Carolina and the final two at Oregon. His total games were 58 with 36 starts and compiled 16.0 sacks, and 33 tackles for loss. Of those numbers, 15.0 sacks and 27 tackles for loss were in the last three seasons. In 2024, he had 8.5 sacks and 11 tackles for loss at Oregon. Draft pick signing details around NFL As of the end of day Friday, 148 of the 257 (57.6 percent) selections had signed and the Cardinals with four of their seven have a nearly identical percentage (57.1). The breakdown of rounds for the signed contracts league-wide is: First round: 6 of 32 Second round: 2 of 32 Third round: 26 of 38 Fourth round: 18 of 36 Fifth round: 28 of 28 Sixth round: 33 of 40 Seventh round: 35 of 41 Get more Cardinals and NFL coverage from Cards Wire's Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify, YouTube or Apple podcasts.
