YNGAir meeting

YNGAir meeting

VIENNA

YNGAir Partners will have its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. today in the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport’s EOC Conference Room.

The airport is at 1453 Youngstown-Kingsville Road.

YNGAir Partners is a nonprofit organization founded to advocate the usage of the airport.

Chamber expo

GREENVILLE, Pa.

The Greenville Area Chamber of Commerce will host a business and community expo at the Rissell-Schreyer Dome on the campus of Thiel College from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

The expo will feature displays by 65 area businesses and 10 nonprofit organizations plus many youth- oriented and recreational groups.

Admission is $1 or a canned-good donation per person. Donations will benefit the Good Shepherd Center and the Salvation Army.

McDonald’s event

YOUNGSTOWN

Herb and Gisele Washington will debut their newly remodeled and environmentally friendly McDonald’s restaurant at 609 Midlothian Blvd. at 11 a.m. today.

Participating in the festivities will be Mayor Charles Sammarone, members of Youngstown City Council, children from the Eagle’s Christian Preschool/Daycare and Ronald McDonald, who will appear at 10 a.m.

To celebrate the new look, the store will conduct a special Enter-To-Win prize drawing, including a chance to win a Lordstown-built Chevrolet Cruze.

Gas-well permits

COLUMBUS

Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has issued a final air general permit to cover shale-gas well sites.

Applicants that meet the qualifying criteria, terms and conditions of the general permit can expect to receive Ohio EPA’s approval within weeks of applying.

The permit restricts normal flare operation, increases total flare capacity and allows for emergency flaring to safely burn gas; removes a limit on the number of storage tanks and replaces it with a limit on the total volume of material stored in tanks; increases allowable dehydrators from one to two; removes unpaved roadways as an emissions unit because it is covered under another existing general permit; and removes the natural-gas micro turbine emissions unit because it was determined to be exempt, among others.

The complete permit is available online at http://epa.ohio.gov/shale.aspx.

Bill would cut taxes for small businesses

WASHINGTON

House Republicans plan legislation to cut small- business taxes by 20 percent, a GOP leader said Wednesday, as the party stepped up its election-year competition with President Barack Obama over who is doing the most to create jobs.

The tax cut would apply to every business with fewer than 500 employees, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said in a memo released to reporters. The bill will be introduced next month, and an aide said no decisions had been made about its cost, how long the tax reduction would last and other details.

Vindicator staff/wire reports