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FDA grants CLIA waiver expanding the availability of rapid screening test for …
Imperial Valley News The FDA’s waiver is related to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), federal standards that apply to clinical laboratory testing on humans, with certain exceptions. Because the FDA granted a waiver under CLIA, the Syphilis Health Check … |
Tampabay.comEditorial: Hold off on changing Pinellas resort taxTampabay.comBut roughly two-thirds of the resort tax money already goes to marketing and related costs, and the complicated proposal by the development council would lock in more money for …
The Desert Sun |
Omnibus bill could affect marijuana policy in valley
The Desert Sun Topping headlines was the bill’s targeting of the Dodd-Frank law, which aimed to curb some of Wall Street’s riskiest trading, and its allowing of wealthy donors to contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to lawmakers. The bill also has some … |
Wall Street Journal |
What You Need to Know Before Donating Art
Wall Street Journal So donating the painting to a qualifying museum would permit this owner a deduction in the current tax year of $100,000, assuming she hasn’t made other art donations totaling more than $50,000. (If donations in a given year exceed the limit for … |
Donations, volunteers needed for Christmas dinnerHerald-Mail MediaSupplies are running low for the free Christmas meal served at The Salvation Army in Chambersburg and delivered throughout Franklin County, Pa. Each year for the past 23 years, organizer…
BBC NewsThe unlikely love affair between two countriesBBC News… the famine of 2011. The then Turkish prime minister, now president Erdogan, flew to Somalia. Unlike other foreigners, who keep at a safe distance from the country, preferring to do Somal…
The New Indian Express |
Stem Cell Donors Unite for a Cause
The New Indian Express “The probability of finding a genetic match within the family is just 25 per cent, and the probability of finding an unrelated donor ranges from ‘I in 10,000’ to ‘1 in 2 million’. Most of the patients do not find matches within the family, and need … |
Congress Passes Deal to Drastically Raise Political Donation LimitsBloombergThe deal to increase the donation limit is tucked into the omnibus spending bill and will allow individual donors to give $97,200 per year to a separate DNC or RNC account sole…
The Denver Post |
Strategic giving: 5 steps to get the most bang from your philanthropic buck
The Denver Post Take steps to ensure that these investments do not contradict — and hopefully further — the foundation’s or donor-advised fund’s charitable mission and utilize all of your philanthropic capital to achieve your charitable goals. (“Mission-related and … |
Asheville Citizen-TimesRoll Call: How Western NC pols voted in US CongressAsheville Citizen-TimesMike J. Rogers, R-Mich., to authorize appropriations for intelligence and intelligence-related activities in fiscal 2014 and fiscal 2015; passed a resoluti…