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Vallejo's volunteer of the year, Karen Taylor, is being honored with yet another award for her community work: Congressman Mike Thompson has selected Taylor as Solano County's Woman of the Year.
Taylor and four other women from Thompson's congressional district were brought together in a ceremony Saturday afternoon in Rutherford, celebrating their individual work within their county.
Two Sonoma Valley projects will benefit from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grants to restore river habitat and improve water quality in Sonoma and Napa counties.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today announced more than $4.3 million in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grants to restore river habitat and improve water quality in Napa and Sonoma Counties.
WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-5) today announced a $4,965,527 Head Start Grant for Community Action Partnership (CAP) of Sonoma County. The funding will be used to provide Head Start and Early Head Start services to 552 children and their families at 12 center based sites throughout Sonoma County.
Community Action Partnership, the Santa Rosa-based nonprofit organization, received a $5 million grant that will allow it to continue to promote school readiness among low-income children.
Saturday was a morning of plenty of prayers and — hopefully for the Global Success Center — plenty of money.
With a mission statement of teaching life skills, personal growth, health, wellness and employment, the Mare Island nonprofit again benefitted from the Mayor's Annual Prayer Breakfast at Dan Foley Cultural Center.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Anna G. Eshoo (CA-18) and Mike Thompson (CA-5) reintroduced today the Fair Access to Health Care Act, legislation to expand the eligibility for premium tax credits for people living in high-cost areas who purchase health insurance through the federal and state exchanges set up by the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
WASHINGTON, DC – This week, Congressman Mike Thompson (D-CA) and Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) introduced the Medicare Patient Access to Hospice Act. This legislation fixes outdated Medicare regulations so that Physician Assistants can provide primary care to hospice patients, which is currently not covered under the current rules.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson today announced a $1,411,750 Department of Health and Human Services Grant to Napa County's Child Start. The goal of the Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership grant is to expand high quality early learning opportunities for Napa and Solano Counties' most vulnerable infants and toddlers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-05) was appointed by Speaker John Boehner to the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission. Thompson will fill the spot vacated by Former Rep. John Dingell (D-MI). The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission was established on February 18, 1929, by the passage of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act.