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Spokane businesses receive grants to enhance downtown experience [Video]
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Spokane businesses receive grants to enhance downtown experience [Video]

SPOKANE, Wash. Six downtown Spokane businesses are set to receive more than $26,000 in grant funds, thanks to the Downtown Spokane Partnership and BECU Philanthropy. The Small Business Faade Enhancement Grant Program, launched earlier this year, aims to improve the appearance and functionality of business entrances and building faades. The upgrades are expected to

Zoth and Plume collaborate with SC Ventures backed Olea to launch trade financing on blockchain using Olea’s supply chain and trade finance expertise | PR Newswire [Video]
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Zoth and Plume collaborate with SC Ventures backed Olea to launch trade financing on blockchain using Olea’s supply chain and trade finance expertise | PR Newswire [Video]

NEW YORK, Dec. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Zoth, a leading ecosystem for real-world assets, is expanding its on-chain fixed-income pools with Olea, a digital infrastructure platform for supply chain assets,

Burlington Cathedral set to be demolished after green light from Vermont Superior Court [Video]
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Burlington Cathedral set to be demolished after green light from Vermont Superior Court [Video]

THE CATHEDRAL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION IN BURLINGTON CLOSED IT’S DOORS IN 2018… FOR YEARS…IT’S BEEN SITTING EMPTY IN THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN. IT’S ACROSS FROM the NEW CITY PLACE development. BUT THAT MAY NOT BE THE CASE FOR MUCH LONGER… NBC5 STEPHEN BIDDIX IS LIVE IN BURLINGTON WITH MORE. THE BUILDING THAT SITS COVERED IN GRAFFITI, FENCED IN, AND UNUSED WILL NOW BE DEMOLISHED THIS WINTER AFTER A STATE SUPREME COURT RULING. AFTER welcoming worshippers for over 4 decades IN 20-18 THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHEDRAL on pine street in burlington CLOSED its doors DUE TO FINANCIAL PRESSURES. THE CATHEDRAL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION TRUST HAS WANTED TO DECONSECRATE AND DEMOLISH THE BUILDING BUT WAS MET WITH SOME RESISTANCE IN RECENT YEARS. Ron Wannamaker, President of Preservation Burlington,00: 01:21:06 FEB 2023 super “There’s a good use for it besides being a church,” MULTIPLE MEMBERS OF PRESERVATION BURLINGTON FILED LAWSUITS AND APPEALS TO THE DECISIONS TO ALLOW FOR THE DEMOLITION. Ron 00:01:39:25 “Our statute is giving preferential treatment to a church over secular uses or secular people.” BUT THAT’S ALL BEEN PUT TO BED AFTER THE VERMONT SUPREME COURT RULED IN FAVOR OF THE TRUST… allowing the demolition to move forward.

A Cheap Satellite with Large Fuel Tank Could Scout For Interplanetary Missions [Video]
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A Cheap Satellite with Large Fuel Tank Could Scout For Interplanetary Missions [Video]

A spacecraft that can provide the propulsion necessary to reach other planets while also being reproducible, relatively light, and inexpensive would be a great boon to larger missions in the inner solar system. Micocosm, Inc., based in Hawthorne, California, proposed just such a system via a NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant. Its Hummingbird spacecraft would have provided a platform to visit nearby planets and asteroids and a payload to do some basic scouting of them.