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GC GETS NO 2. SEED AT NATIONALS SPORTS | C1 PANAMA CITY LOCAL | B1 BAY ASKED, AND THE PARKER MAYOR ANSWERED Tuesday, March 12, 2019 www.newsherald.com @The_News_Herald facebook.com/panamacitynewsherald 75¢ PC announces code enforcement plan The city has set up to start to grapple with the pressure on homeowners at Lake Huntington Club House two locations to apply tremendous destruction from the six month mark, April 10, 3504 15th Street, Panama City, Florida for the private debris Hurricane Michael and insur- to clean their properties up. Monday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. removal program ance companies, Panama City “I’ve asked my code Sunday, Closed Code Enforcement is for- enforcement to hold off on Police Substation By Katie Landeck mulating a plan to deal with the rigorous standard they 920 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, Panama City, Florida @ PCNHKatieL dangerous properties where would normally have until Monday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. [email protected] nothing has happened. after the 10th of April and I Sunday, Closed Much like Bay County, want to give our citizens time Applications will be accepted through May 4. For more infor- PANAMA CITY — After Panama City Code Enforce- mation, contact the PPDR Hotline at (850) 443-2792 from 8 a.m. giving residents five months ment plans to start putting See CODE, A7 to 4 p.m. Last pass begins LOCAL | B1 GOLF COURSE TO RE-OPEN IN LYNN HAVEN THIS SUMMER Budget proposal relies on strong growth Chad Davis, a worker with Timberline Trading of Missouri, picks up storm and construction debris in Parker, Florida on Monday, March 11, 2019. He is living in Fountain with family while he works picking up debris with a large claw on a crane. He says the damage in Bay County is Trump’s record much worse than what he picked up after hurricanes Maria and Harvey. [JOSHUA BOUCHER/THE NEWS HERALD] $4.7 trillion pitch lines with assumed 3.1% growth Meet one of the debris haulers cleaning the area By Lisa Mascaro The Associated Press By Collin Breaux WASHINGTON — [email protected] President Donald Trump @PCNHCollinB proposed a record $4.7 trillion federal budget SPRINGFIELD — From his for 2020 on Monday, perch on top of a debris hauler, relying on optimistic Chad Davis has become inti- 3.1 percent economic mately acquainted with the growth projections destruction of Hurricane alongside account- Michael. ing shuffles and steep He's seen entire houses domestic cuts to bring pushed to the curbside — future spending into hundreds of cubic yards of promised balance in 15 downed trees and piles of years. molding furniture — while The deficit is pro- systemically scooping the jected to hit $1.1 trillion lingering remnants of the in the 2020 fiscal year, October hurricane in the the highest in a decade. mechanical jaws to be hauled The administration away. Seeing children’s toys is counting on robust stands out to him and can be growth, including from hard to deal with, he said. the Republican tax cuts “I got kids at home,” said — which Trump wants Davis. to make permanent — Davis has been working in to push down the red disaster debris hauling for ink. Some economists, two years and is an opera- Chad Davis, a worker with Timberline Trading of Missouri, picks up storm and construction debris in though, say the bump tor with Timberline, one of Parker, Florida on Monday, March 11, 2019. He is living in Fountain with family while he works picking from the tax cuts is up debris with a large claw on a crane. He says the damage in Bay County is much worse than what he See DEBRIS, A7 picked up after hurricanes Maria and Harvey. [JOSHUA BOUCHER/THE NEWS HERALD] See BUDGET, A7 Panama City News Herald Nation & World ..............A4 Diversions ..................... B6 TODAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Want to subscribe? Local .......................... 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