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February 1, 2017 Vol. 10 No. 09
CA Business Owners: Not Happy! Some California business owners aren’t happy about the new president’s crackdown on undocumented workers. SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- In the past week, President Trump signed executive orders to build a wall along the Mexican border and to cut off federal funds to “sanctuary cities” - in California and across the country. While Wall Street has been bullish, small business owners, particularly those with immigrant interests, are
not happy about it. Michelle Sternthal, deputy director of policy and government affairs at Main Street Alliance - a network of small businesses across the country with offices in San Diego - said the border wall is very unpopular. “As business owners, we know that entrepreneurship is something which immigrant
By Desert Star Staff Palm Desert, Calif., – A $25,000 Coachella Valley Spotlight grant from the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation will make it safer for seriously ill children to be transported by ambulance from a Coachella Valley hospital to Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital (LLUCH). The grant was awarded to Big Hearts for Little Hearts Desert Guild in Support of Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital, which seeks to enhance the lives of our community’s children. LLUCH works in partnership with hospitals in the Coachella Valley. As a tertiary hospital, LLUCH is staffed and equipped to care for even the most serious health situations. In 2016, about 1600 critically ill or injured
children were referred to LLUCH from area hospitals. One out of every three children transported from the Coachella Valley to LLUCH goes by ambulance. “We work hand in hand with our transport team. They are often the ones who save the child’s life during transport before they even make it to LLUCH, and often, they are the forgotten heroes. When it came to this grant, we asked them what they needed to make their jobs easier,” said Josh Zahid, Big Hearts for Little Hearts Desert Guild Manager for LLUCH Foundation. The proceeds from the grant will be used to purchase a Revel Transport Ventilator and a GE VScanner portable ultrasound to
communities have over twice the rate of entrepreneurship as native-born folks,” Sternthal said, “and they’re the engines of our economy.” But a recent poll found a significant number of Californians support Trump’s priorities, at least to some degree. About one-third of the respondents said California
would be better off with a border wall; 45 percent said it would be worse off. The Main Street Alliance represents about 30,000 small business owners nationwide. Sternthal said she believes these moves by the nation’s chief executive are damaging - perhaps not to Wall Street, but to Main Street,
and to something deeper. “That not only destroys the foundational elements of our society, a society of immigrants,” she said, “but it also is a blow to entrepreneurship and small business growth, when we have the best ideas and Continues on Page 7
Coachella Valley Children benefit receives $25,000
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