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Auburn City Council member Hovey challenging Whatley for Senate seat
According to Whatley’s most recent campaign finance report, he has $246,933 on hand and this year has raised $355,071 for his campaign.
Daily News Digest – December 3, 2021
Lawmakers discuss how to handle ARPA funds; Government shutdown averted; Retired Alabama deputy killed in shooting recalled fondly; Jobs report: Sluggish hiring in November; Playoff spot on the line as Alabama faces Georgia in Atlanta
US employers added a sluggish 210,000 jobs in November
Beneath the headline figures on hiring and unemployment, though, lurks a potentially even more consequential question: Are more people who lost jobs to the pandemic recession finally coming off the sidelines to look for work again? Many more job-seekers are needed to help companies fill their open jobs and sustain the economy's growth.
State leaders: Focused plan needed for ARPA money allocations
Alabama leaders have a rare chance to use federal money to make significant improvements to the state’s broadband networks and other infrastructure systems, but leaders need to plan carefully for its spending in order to stay competitive with states that have the same opportunities, Alabama Finance Director Bill Poole told a panel of lawmakers Thursday.
Congress passes stopgap funding bill, avoiding shutdown
The Senate has passed a stopgap spending bill that avoids a short-term shutdown and funds the federal government through Feb. 18 after leaders defused a partisan standoff over federal vaccine mandates. The measure now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.
Retired Alabama deputy killed in shooting recalled fondly
Nicholson, 78, was fatally wounded and another deputy was shot in a confrontation that left a suspect dead Wednesday afternoon in tiny Yellow Bluff, a town about 90 miles southwest of Montgomery. Nicholson died in the line of duty, state police said.