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The City Council in The Dalles voted unanimously Monday night, 5-0, to approve a $28.5 million deal with Google to provide more water for the tech company to cool two new data centers there. The issue had trained national attention on the small city, which sits along the Columbia River about 80 miles east of Portland, and the broader question of water rights in the drought-stricken West. Google and The Dalles have refused to say just how much water the company’s three existing data centers… Source link

In the negotiations over the Democrats’ social spending package, the fate of the State and Local Tax (SALT) cap has been one of the hardest to pin down. At some stages, the issue hasn’t been addressed at all. Other times, a full repeal has seemed to be on the table. What this controversial tax provision does is let certain taxpayers deduct their aggregated state and local taxes when it comes time to do their federal tax return. In 2017, Republicans capped the previously limitless deduction… Source link

The labor talks between the NFL and the players union are creeping into combative territory. Coming off Wednesday’s negotiations when NFL team owners pressed for a resolution of shared revenue loss prior to training camps opening Tuesday, the rhetoric between the two sides escalated Thursday. A source with knowledge of the negotiations told Yahoo Sports that franchise owners have expressed a willingness to consider “all options” if talks break down over revenue drawbacks. The source said… Source link