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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

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New “Blight Elimination Program” Offers Transformative Grant Funding to Rural and Urban Michigan Communities

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In Michigan, land banks are quasi-governmental entities, created pursuant to Michigan’s Land Bank Fast Track Act (Public Act 258 of 2003), and represent rural and urban communities across the state. Cities, townships, counties, and land banks can apply for the grant funding. The total $21.5 Greg VanWoerkom (R-91).

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

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The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Civil protection, when it works, is a form of participatory democracy, in which the citizen has an active stake in his or her own safety and security.

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