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By Hugh Jackson | Editor
Our post-scarcity society awaits. “The next decade of sports ownership will look very different than the last. We believe Las Vegas will sit at the center of that transformation," prophecies the founder and CIO of the investment group that says it's going to invest in the baseball team that you, the Nevada public, is helping to finance in Las Vegas. Sounds great. Can't wait for all the wealth and riches to trickle down, ripple out, and create broadly shared prosperity, just like it always does.
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Food as medicine. Under this program, people facing a cardiovascular condition or diabetes are screened and connected with food banks, and if they're eligible they get “a food prescription” that provides them access to a wide variety of nutritious foods, including lower-sodium options, dairy, and lean proteins. Jeniffer Solis reports: Prescriptions for nutrition: Nevada program connects food banks to health care
Nobody cares about the presidential primary calendar, I was told a time or six over the last few days by the way. My weekend column in case you missed it: NV going 2nd. Or 22nd. Does it matter?
Via the D.C. bureau:
South Carolina 1st, Nevada 2nd on 2028 presidential nominating calendar, Democratic panel says. It's not clear South Carolinians care either (Clyburn said he didn’t). So New Hampshirites and Iowans might be the only ones.
Trump imposes new import taxes on U.S. consumers, businesses. More inflation, you say? Your president is always more than happy to oblige.
Suit alleges Homeland Security targeted people observing, protesting immigration agents. Federal immigration officers addressed many legal observers by name, despite having never spoken to them. In Minnesota, legal observers tailing DHS agents in a car would commonly be led back to their own home addresses, according to the suit. “The experience … is so widespread that Minnesota residents have coined a term for it: being ‘driven home by ICE,’” the suit said.
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