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On September 17, 2019, Congressman Raúl Grijalva sent a letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (FSGG), stressing the urgent need to fund the San Luis 1 Port of Entry modernization project.
The House version of the FSGG appropriations bill, H.R. 3351, included the full funding of $248.3 million for the San Luis 1 project. In the letter, Congressman Grijalva requested the Senate companion legislation include the same appropriation for this project.
Article courtesy of #LuisOnTheBorder
Luis Ramirez, Ramirez Advisors
AN LUIS, Ariz. -- Today, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and city of San Luis hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the San Luis I Land Port of Entry (LPOE) to celebrate the opening of a newly constructed pedestrian processing building at the port.https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/regions/welcome-to-the-pacific-rim-region-9/region-9-newsroom/pacific-rim-press-releases/gsa-cbp-city-of-san-luis-host-ribboncutting-ceremony-for-new-pedestrian-processing-annex
The five members of the Yuma County Board of Supervisors found 2017 to be a good year for the county government, with long-deferred road maintenance projects brought to the forefront and other issues beginning to be addressed, while the benefits of the economic recovery were finally being felt.
‘New things are coming up all over the place,’ says city admin
Don’t be surprised if you’re having a hard time finding a contractor to do some work. Construction in Yuma has gone up 20 percent in the last year.
San Luis, AZ. Residents on the west side of San Luis are getting smoother rides to and from home, thanks to resurfacing of a stretch of Juan Sanchez Boulevard, one of two of the city's busiest streets.
Yuma is to agriculture as Napa is to wine, Detroit is to cars and Silicon Valley is to computer technology.
It’s no surprise to locals, but now a study has confirmed it. Or rather, reconfirmed it.
Ashley Kerna Bickel, an economic impact analyst with the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, presented the results of the study, titled “Arizona Leafy Greens: Economic Contributions of the Industry Cluster — 2015 Economic Contribution Analysis,” released in the fall.
A study commissioned by a produce industry association has found that Arizona’s leafy green vegetable industry, dominated by Yuma County growers, generates about $2 billion of economic impact every year, twice the amount most often used to estimate its contribution.
The results, based on 2015 data, come as more of a surprise to some local industry figures than others. “It was kind of eye-opening,” said Jerry Muldoon, chairman of the Arizona Leafy Greens Food Safety Committee board, the association which funded the study,
“It was more than we’d ever estimated before, just because it was just the direct sales we were looking at. But now, taking all the other factors, the jobs and on and on and on, it’s a pretty huge number.”