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Rep. Mike Thompson announced that seemingly long-gone earthquake disaster loans are still available to local residents faced with rebuilding a sound wall rocked by the South Napa earthquake.
The city of American Canyon will receive more than $2 million from the U.S. government to help it rebuild Green Island Road, federal officials announced Tuesday.
The $2.4 million grant from the Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) will go toward the repaving and widening of the heavily-used corridor through the city's industrial region.
"Social Security is strong and will provide retirement security for Americans for another 80 years."
This was U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson's message during a town hall forum at Vallejo's Florence Douglas Senior Center on Tuesday, marking the program's 80th anniversary.
The St. Helena Democrat planned a similar event in Santa Rosa later in the day, an aide said.
Cracked and battered buildings have been repaired. Homes have been cleared of shattered dishes, glasses and heirlooms. But at Monday's remembrance on the first anniversary of the Napa earthquake, perhaps the most vital symbol of recovery was a clean-cut, curly-haired teenage boy in a blue oxford shirt and a bow tie — a boy who was again standing straight.
After a long flight from Southeast Asia, soldiers wounded in Vietnam are being transported to a military hospital in San Francisco. The bus carries men in litters stacked in three-high bunks. As the vehicle approaches the hospital, it is surrounded by war protesters who begin to rock the bus back and forth.
The historic Napa post office, extensively damaged in the 2014 earthquake, will be offered for sale instead of being demolished, the U.S. Postal Service has announced.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, a Vietnam combat veteran and former senior member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, came out this week in support of the President Obama's embattled Iran Nuclear Agreement.
The U.S. Postal Service has decided not to demolish the historic Franklin Station Post Office in downtown Napa that was damaged in last year's 6.0-magnitude earthquake.
U.S. Rep, Mike Thompson, D-Napa, informed the city in a letter on Wednesday that the USPS intends to sell the building and property.
U.S. Reps. Mike Thompson (CA-5) and John Garamendi (CA-3) announced on Thursday morning that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved the State of California's request for a Fire Management Assistance Grant declaration for the Rocky Fire burning in Lake, Yolo and Colusa Counties.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson has issued a statement in support of the Iran nuclear agreement recently reached by negotiators from six countries, saying, "A nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable."